The Midwife's Apprentice Sparknotes

632 Words2 Pages

Wissam Matar
Midwife’s Apprentice Essay Final

The Midwife’s Apprentice

“You, inn girl, what do you want?” Alyce said “ I know what I want. A full belly, a contented heart, and a place in this world.” The book “The Midwife’s apprentice” by Karen Cushman introduces Alyce as a lonely orphaned girl who lives in a dung heap. Shortly after, she tries becoming the midwife’s apprentice, but quits and runs away to an inn after failing to deliver a baby. After a while she discovers that midwifery was her destiny so she returns back to the village and the midwife. At the beginning of the book , Alyce is a lonely, orphaned girl but as the book continues becomes more confident in herself. Finally, by the end of the book, Ayce has become a skillful midwife’s apprentice. …show more content…

The text states ,“She was small and pale, with the frightened air of an ill-used child, but her scrawny, underfed body did give off a hint of woman, so perhaps she was 12 or 13. No one knew for sure, least of all the girl herself, who knew no home and no mother and no name but Brat.” This shows that she was so lonely that she had no mother, no one to remind her of her age. Also, she has never had a home and has been named Brat. The text claims “Tonight, she settled for the dung heap, where she dreamed of nothing, hoped for nothing, and expected nothing.” This proves that she just doesn’t care about her life anymore. She knows she will stay lonely till the end of her

Open Document