Quoted By:
Having lived through the war and having experience all the horrors coming with it, she started writing about the moomins as some sort of ventile. One scene which shows that in particular is, when the moomin family flees into a cave, to save themselve from a comet, that is threatening to destroy the moominsland. When it finally hits the earth she describes what the moominsfamily experiences
"The whole mountain shook and trembled around them and the comet howled as if terrified, or as if the Earth itself was screaming."
"They lay still and held on to one another for a long time. From outside came the rolling echo of shattering rocks and soil. Time became dreadfully elongated, and each of them felt they were quite alone."