Analysis of A Cry in the Dark
A Cry in the Dark, based on a true story, is about a mother whose baby is killed
during a camping trip along with her husband. The mother, Lindy Chamberlain
claims to have seen her baby being carried away by a dingo and then assumes
that the dingo is the cause of her baby's death. As she reports this to the police,
she is inconsistent with some of the details that she reports along with other
factors that stood against her, the police, meda, and even people watching
this take place as it caused commotion in the news, accuse
her of murdering the child.
The mother and the father of the murdered baby are religious and dedicated to
the religion of the Seventh Day Adventists. This is a Christian religion whose
main idea is the comming of Jesus Chirst for the second time and observing
Sabath. Because of events associated with the religion similar to the religion
of the Seventh Day Adventists, people assumed that the religion of the Seventh
Day Adventists were similar to that of a cult. Also, what increased their
reputation of being related to a cult and violence, was their idea and
encouraging of scarfices for their religion. Since Lindy Chamberlain followed
this religion and was dedicated to it religiously, people assumed that she could
be just as violent and sacrifice her baby Azaria into the wilderness. Ironically,
the meaning of her baby's name, Azaria, is "sacrificed in the wilder...
Lindy saw with a large dingo coming out of their tent. It seemed to be
In the morning, before school, she decides that it’s unsafe and annoying to have the baby around and take care of it, and she feels the baby would also be safer in the hands of the
... the United States, the simple and hard work of the midwife Monique sharply contrasts Holloway’s perspective. With the death of Bintou during childbirth, Holloway realizes the reality of the situations Monique and other midwives faced everyday (88). When complications emerge, midwives lack the equipment to help save the mother and child. In the United States, children are normally born in a hospital or within a drive away from a health center.
About thirty years ago there was a young girl in love with her boyfriend. One day, he convinced her to take their relationship to the next level, telling her how deeply he cared. A couple weeks later, she found out that she had become pregnant, and decided it was best to hide it from him. They kept in close contact over the next few months, and he told her that they would be together forever. When her father realized that she was having a baby without marriage, he made her leave the house until she came back with a husband. When the baby girl was born, she decided to tell the boyfriend about the child, by bringing her to his house. He lived on a small farm right outside town and you had to pass over a small river on a bridge to get back to his house. As she opened the door, she walked in on him with another girl. Filled with anger, (pause) she gets in her car and speeds off. Now she could not return home unmarried and had lost her only love because of this one child. As she looked over at the baby, she is only reminded of her boyfriend and the image of him with the other girl. (tone increases) Finally, she reached the bridge, then slammed on the breaks. She got out and in a moment of rage threw the baby over the bridge to rid her of the baby girl’s troubles. Later that night, the police were tipped off about a murder at the bridge and came to find the girl hanging from the bridge.
Presenting the story from a third person perception and having the narration by the mother or “Mama” gives the story great relevance to real life situations that ha...
This story speaks of a married woman who fell in love with a man who was not her husband. She bore this man a child and realized that she could not live without him. In the event, she decides to leave her husband to be with the child’s father. However, there is only one problem and that is that she has two other children by her husband. She has a daughter who is 9 years old and is very mature for her age, and a darling son who is 5 years old. As she leaves to restart her life again with this other man, the 5 year old son is left behind to stay with his dad, and the little girl is tragically killed by a pack of wolves. The little boy is devastated by his mom’s decision to leave him behind. He is constantly haunted by dreams and images that come to his mind surrounding his mother’s...
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Rose Mary is an inattentive mother. When her daughter Jeannette was only three years old, she was hungry and decided to make herself some hot dogs. She was wearing her favorite tutu but got distracted by feeding her dog one of her hot dogs. Shortly after she gave the dog the hot dog she caught on fire while she was under no supervision of her mother who was painting in the other room. Another instance was when Rose Mary was sleeping and Rex was at a bar. Rose Mary and Rex keep the windows and doors open to keep the air flow in the hot house while all of the kids were sleeping, but Jeannette woke up by “someone running his hands over her private parts” (103).
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that his mother has betrayed his father and goes off to live with his aunt. A
I didn’t think much of it at the time – I assumed she meant that he might put the diaper on funny or dress the baby in mismatching clothes. What I didn’t realize was that my friend was warning me against a phenomenon known as “maternal gatekeeping.”
... that he resembles the proverbial "poor cat" that wanted the fish but would not get its paws wet. she tells him that her own lack of pity would extend to murdering her own child as it suckled at her breast. With this one terrifying example, she confirms that "the milk of human kindness" is absent in her.
that her husband was killed in accident scene. At first, she ran to upside to her room only,
her own” (120). How Dee offends not only her mother, but her family, is when she claims
In the story this young mother is pictured as a careless and weak woman who barely pays attention to her children and the people who take most part of the mother’s responsibility is everybody else in the house. In the story the two boys realize that their mother is different from other mothers because she does not act like the rest of their friend’s mothers who care about their children. The problem keeps escalating because the mother’s parents keep putting pressure on her so that she can dedicate more time to her children. I noticed that things were a little different when she invited her boyfriend to the house to have dinner with her children, a true family moment in my opinion if you ask me. At this point I come to the realization that she wants to have a family like she once did. The young mother then enters a great depression after Max and her end the relationship and that drives her to take her life