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: The ending highlights the idea that the journey on one side of a bridge is fundamentally different from the other. The act of crossing represents a transformation of the traveler, who becomes part of the "work of art" while traversing his magical structures.

: After his children grow up and his wife passes away, the father is "released" from his duties and begins building the fantastical bridges of his dreams. The Extraordinary Bridges : These new structures are works of art: A bridge made of black iron lace where spiders spin their own webs. Bridges overgrown with roses and wisteria that appear to be made of flowers. A fragile bridge of violin strings and peacock feathers mother-of-pearl the bridge builder by margaret mahy pdf upd

: Contrast the early, "functional" bridges with the later, "dream" bridges. : The ending highlights the idea that the

: Mahy uses the motif of the bridge to represent the "transformation truths" of the imagination. The Extraordinary Bridges : These new structures are