How do you erase a memory? You can’t!!! While trying to forget the details of the hidden crime, yes in some eyes abortion is a crime, they can never be erased. “Abortions will not let you forget” (1). The poem “The Mother” by Gwendolyn Brooks, strikes the reader with a gamut of emotions! While the physical child is not present, the spirit of that child yet lives on! “I have heard in the voices of the wind the voices of my dim killed children” (11). How can a mother heal after aborting her child? The physical child was erased, mourned and ironically eternally imprinted in the mother’s mind, resulting in the Ghost Child! While the mother thought that the best choice for her life was aborting her baby, she didn’t realize the remaining residue would leave a permanent impact on her life. “Believe me, I knew you, though faintly, and I loved, I loved you all.” (32 - 33) She physically erased the child, consequently after the fact the ghost child tortures and taunts her memory, leaving her remorseful! “If I poisoned the beginnings of your breaths, …show more content…
Believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate. Though why should I whine, Whine that the crime was other than min?- Since anyhow you are dead” (20 – 24). There’s always remorse in death!
Whether the intentions were good or not, the thought of erasing a living creature from this earth is not easy. The question arises: How do you live each day and move forward? The Ghost Child is harder to put out of the mother’s mind because she’s filled with visions of what will never be! “The singers and workers that never handled the air” (4), because the child was not born, the mother doesn’t know if the ghost child would’ve been a singer, movie star or a CEO of a corporation! What kind of mother would she have been? All because she snatched away their breath before the child could experience being! While she physically erased the child, the consequence was a spiritual birth of a ghost child that torments and haunts her memory, leaving her remorseful and full of grief. Who would Ghost Child look like? Every child that crosses her path is a constant reminder of what could have
been. The physical residue remains as well with the mother because her body mourns ghost child! “I have contracted. I have eased / my dim dears at the breasts they could never suck.” (12 – 13) Her body continuously yearns for the Ghost Child because while she turned out its lights permanently, her body still goes through the physical process of being pregnant. So the process of her breasts being full and tender takes time to return to normal. All of the attributes that go along with being pregnant, (swollen breasts and feet, weight gain, the pregnant walk, emotionally off balance, etc.) the mother have felt all of them for some time. While her love was faulty, she did love Ghost Child and thought that she was making the best choice for her baby. The regret of her decisions will live with her the rest of her life! She can’t erase the memories, the visits from Ghost Child nor the scars.
Ann Rinaldi has written many books for young teenagers, she is an Award winning author who writes stories of American history and makes them become real to the readers. She has written many other books such as A Break with Charity, A Ride into Morning, and Cast two Shadows, etc. She was born in New York City on August 27, 1934. In 1979, at the age of 45, she finished her first book.
Hence, the poem's tone contains elements of remorse as well as impassivity. The traveler's detached description of the mother, "...a doe, a recent killing; / she had stiffened already, almost cold" (6-7), and the wistful detail with which he depicts her unborn offspring, "...her fawn lay there waiting...
Women in America have been described as “domestic household slaves” referring to their status in society. Do the documents support this assertion? If so what is the evidence?
Gwendolyn Brooks' poem "The mother" tells us about a mother who had many abortions. The speaker is addressing her children in explain to them why child could not have them. The internal conflict reveals that she regret killing her children or "small pups with a little or with no hair." The speaker tells what she will never do with her children that she killed. She will "never neglect", "beat", "silence", "buy with sweet", " scuffle off ghosts that come", "controlling your luscious sigh/ return for a snack", never hear them "giggled", "planned", and "cried." She also wishes she could see their "marriage", "aches", "stilted", play "games", and "deaths." She regrets even not giving them a "name" and "breaths." The mother knows that her decision will not let her forget by using the phrase "Abortions will not let you forget." The external conflict lets us know that she did not acted alone in her decision making. She mentions "believe that even in my deliberateness I was not deliberate" and "whine that the crime was other than mine." The speaker is saying that her decision to have an abortion was not final yet but someone forced her into having it anyway. The external conflict is that she cannot forget the pain on the day of having the abortions. She mentions the "contracted" and "eased" that she felt having abortions.
Rejection. Desperate to help your dying child, you go to the one place you can get help and the doctor says no. All because your life savings just isn't enough. In The Pearl by John Steinbeck, the doctor is guilty of malpractice for breaking the Hippocratic oath: not treating Coyotito because he doesn't want to work for little payment. Coyotito is stung by a scorpion and Kino goes to the doctor to get him treated. Kino asks if the doctor will treat Coyotito, and the guard goes to talk to the doctor. The doctor says that he will not treat the baby unless there is payment. Kino gives the guard pearls, and the doctor rejects them. The guard tells Kino that the doctor has a more important patient, lying to avoid work.
whatever it takes to keep them alive. That is not moral, that is legal. But
It is expected that at a young age, children are taught the difference between what is right and what is wrong in all types of situations. The majority of Supreme Court Justices abolished mandatory life in prison for juveniles that commit heinous crimes, argued this with the consideration of age immaturity, impetuosity, and also negative family and home environments. These violent crimes can be defined as murder, rape, armed robbery, aggravated assault and the like depending on state law. With these monstrous acts in mind the supreme court justices argument could be proven otherwise through capability and accountability, the underdevelopment of the teenage brain and the severity of the crime. Juveniles commit heinous crimes just like adults
During the first 20 paragraphs, Williams is simply recalling the events as they had taken place. Never revealing the death of the child. We are led to believe that the child never dies, but Williams gives us clues into her death when he states in paragraph 31, "I have seen at least two children lying dead in bed of neglect." His guilt of how he handled the situation plunges his imagination down a dark, immoral path. The pivotal point between reality and his vivid imagination becomes clear when he states, "I explained the danger but said that I would not insist on the throat examination so long as they (her parents) would take the responsibility." This is where his imagination takes over. Instantly, his adoration and love for the young girl turns to utter loathing. He goes on to describe her as a "savage brat."
The poem “The Mother” the author Gwendolyn Brooks describes a graphic description of a child in the womb forced to death by the mother. The mother in the poem describes what her children would have become if she would have not aborted them and the pleasures of what her children would have brought upon her. During the first few lines of the poem the mother emphasizes “Abortions will not let you forget” (Brooks Line 1) telling the reader that abortions are so
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But her use of pathos and description shows that even she can’t handle the dark moments that experience with young pregnant women. She describes the process of abortion, the way she feels as well as the pregnant victims. Tisdale wants people to be educated in this area, so less abortion have to be performed. As she narrates her stories of teenagers receiving abortions, she believes that in some circumstances abortion is necessary, but it can also be a cruel, and tragic thing to be a part of, and could easily be avoided if people were more educated in the matter. “Soon I am talking to an eighteen-year-old women pregnant for the fourth time” (Tisdale 650). Tisdale’s use of pathos does not help her in this case. As she describes in detail what goes on during abortion, readers come to realizes how terrible and dark it really is. Tisdale describes the emotion pregnant women feel as they are having their child ripped away from them.
She knows her son would not want her to be in this pain and dwell on something she cannot change which is why the author states “But soon afterwards, when the child had been buried, it appeared by night in the places where it had sat and played during its life, and if the mother wept, it wept also, and, when morning came, it disappeared.” The little boy is referred to as ‘it’ because he is only appearing in the mother’s mind as she reminisces all of the memories they shared. The mother eventually comes to an understanding with this terrible incident and at peace for herself and her little boy when the story reads “Then the mother gave her sorrow into God’s keeping, and bore it quietly and patiently, and the child came no more, but slept in its little bed beneath the earth.” She finally let go. Also, in the last quotation, this is showing that the mother now worships God above all and is putting her faith in him. As opposed to the beginning of the story where the author states “THERE was once a mother who
The Sisters Grimm: Fairy-Tale Detectives written by Michael Buckley expresses the difficulty that two girls had to face when their parents disappeared making them move to many foster homes. Sabrina and Daphne had to get over what happened to them in the different homes and open their eyes to a new adventure with a grandma they never knew about. The book sets up the reader with a theme that no matter how difficult life gets do not give up, the setting gives the reader a mental image of what Ferryport Landing was like and the types of characters makes the literary work have great quality.
...eceives people on earth, but it’s all out of a place of sorrow. She does it merely to look for her daughter in hopes of finding her.
A crime is an act that breaks a law that relates to how to behave in society. The harm caused by the act is seen to be against society as a whole, not just a specific person. More specifically, a crime is an act (something you do) or omission (something you don’t do) that is against the law and punishable upon conviction. Crime includes criminal code offences against a person or property, drug offences, and so much more. Why do people commit crimes? Why do women commit crimes? Is a woman capable of committing a crime, and what causes her to do so? Many people believe that women would never commit crimes because of the common stereotypes of them being trustworthy, nurturing, and compassionate people. They place these stereotypes on women because they believe that women are not capable of committing crimes to the point where they would have to face prison. Although these stereotypes are assured to be true, these people do not realize that women crime rates have been increasing tremendously overtime, especially in the 1980's. Women/female offenders have had the fastest growing segment over the last 40 years, but are still much smaller than men. It has been proven that out of 1.5 million prisoners incarcerated in the nation, only 54 out of 100,000 of those people are women. According to Judge Thomas Mostowy, 14% of women crimes are violent, 10% are murders, 60% are against family members, and 20% of the violent female offenders are juveniles who have committed other crimes but notably majority of them are non-violent.