Befor: A Brief Story Of Phedre's Narrative Fiction

“ The boy was a tall fourteen, hunched with his sudden growth and very pale. His mouth was sweetly curved, his skin fine and girlish. His sister was only eleven years old, but already she was so short and ordinary that it was obvious she would be this way all her life. Her name was square and practical as the rest of her. Mary.” (13-19).

She helped her sisters get ready and went to the ball she wanted to go but she didn’t even have a dress none the less a dress. So she thought to her self " it would not hurt anyone if I went to the palace and peek in the window and see what a grand party is like'. Nyaha from of godmother is the prince in a way he was a garden snake who was there for her all the time and she was nice to him … Also in the woods he was 3 people a hungry boy, man with his head in his hand and then the trees' who helped her along the

7 months in the pregnancy Anastasia grew very ill. So she went to the woods and prayed to the gods to save her baby. Knowing the queen only allowed the women to get pregnant once and each family was allowed one baby. She cried and prayed wishing the gods will answer her, she was answered but it wasn't by a god it was by a coyote in a purple cape. The coyote spoke “cry no more my child your wish is my command” Anastasia responded “I’m not sure” He cuts her off and says “You know Rosemary?” “yes” replies Anastasia ”I help her with her baby” says the coyote, Anastasia remembers the situation and agrees to take whatever to coyote gave her. The coyote pulls out a cup full of tea she drank it but by the time she was done the coyote was gone. She walked home,and when she got there she went straight to bed and slept for 24 hours. Naveen had to stay over at the castle for a week this time so he had no clue what she has done.

Moreover, her grandmother Tattiemae Lamprey, discern, there is something dreadfully wrong in her granddaughter’s life and well will need to aid in the breaking the generational curse. However, the grandmother-Tattiemae explained to Iambless that at the time of her birth, she is the one that named her “I am blessed,” because the day she was born was a blessing from God. Within, this short chronicle, Iambless’ grandmother reveals to her the reason why she is blessed, on her dying bed.

Danticat writes about a daughter and her mother, who has been accused of being a witch. The mother had to cross the river separating Haiti and the Dominican Republic to save herself and her daughter. This real event was a massive massacre with very few survivors. “My mother had escaped El Generalissimo's soldiers, leaving her own mother behind. From the Haitian side of the river, she could still see the soldiers chopping up her mother’s body and throwing it into the river along with many others,” (40). Despite surviving, the mother saw her own mother die in this massacre and likely many more people that she knew. She lost everything while trying to escape, except for her own daughter. This forced them to start their life over in Haiti. And while she did get a chance to start a new life, she went through immense suffering trying to escape and even once she did escape and got to Haiti. After moving to the city, the mother is accused of being a witch and

She gives birth to a son who has medical problems. Out of necessity to provide for her and her son, she decides to sell tea. Tea is part of her gypsy heritage.

However, the girl had not been dead, but merely unconscious. After 9 months she gave birth to a beautiful baby boy and girl, with the help of a fairy. One day, one of the two infants started sucking on his mother’s finger and drew out the splinter of flax. Talia awoke and although she did not know how the children had come to her, she embraced them with love and called them Sun and Moon. The fairy helped her raise her children and provided them with drinks and food.

Ceres was forced to make her way back home without her daughter, the travel was not easy for the poor distraught mother. When she made it back all Ceres could do was sit on her bed and cry, powerless to save her daughter. This brings her back to reality. Sitting in the same spot as she once did over her first daughter, Ceres cried wishing she had refused to let Proserpina

The story in this book was about a family named Price going for a mission trip to the Belgian Congo, Africa. It was supposed to be only for a couple months, but at the end they stayed more than they foreseen. The author lets us see the insight of the events as they go through them from 4 out of 5 of the members of the family; Rachel, Adah, Leah, Ruth May, and Orleanna (being the mother). The only one who the author does not let us see is from the father’s point of view. At the beginning the mother is worried about the health issues they might have to go through while staying in the village called Kilanga. While the daughters are more preoccupied in how they are fitting in with the rest of the kids, and being tired of taking so many pills for

In this village there lived a widow named Koko. She was a kind spirit and had given birth to a girl, who she named, little fawn, or Awinita. Koko had a kind heart, she cared for all things, she wanted to pass these values to her child so she would grow up to be just as humble and compassionate.

In the waning days of 1839, the small farmland of Frithville, Lincolnshire, witnessed the marriage of two teenagers. Elizabeth Wakefield, 16 and William Sharp 17, had set up their new life some distance from their parents on a farm where William could labour, as most Lincolnshire men did. The substantial farm on Stount Road, owned by a 30 year old bachelor, Charles Ireland, functioned with the hands of at least 3 other young men just as William plus 4 male and one female servants, none of whom were over 25 years. Three Simpson toddlers dwelled nearby to occasionally brighten the hard working family’s daily lives. This is the setting for the birth of Sarah Ann whom Elizabeth delivered on February 5, 1842.

~Smiling brightly as the small dancers emerald orbs closed, dancing about the sands with fire within her belly. Dixi was allowed to name her babies, but what? They had to be perfect, then it came the names flowed from the dancers lips. They were named Rose and Lavender after all what would be more perfect with how dixi always wore flowers for her babies to be named such.~

The mother being a local beauty was raised in a fishermen family. She believed everything should be spotless and in order, the way her brothers ran their ships. She was a typical fishermen house wife; she grew beautiful gardens and raised broods of ducks and hens and would go digging in the mud for clams. At one point she might have loved her husband but it was quite evident that she despised him and his books. There were moments when they clashed fiercely with each other and she was disgusted with his inability to retain his children in the fishermen lifestyle. The mother was very ignorant and closed-minded towards other traditions. This is proven when the daughters marry men from different lifestyles and the mother wants nothing to do with them. She believes that they are lazy, dishonest, and the unknown in which she

I'm sorry I can't if I do I must leave the one I love, I cannot leave him it'll kill me." she replied. "Then I must slay you but I can't harm your innocent child so I will take her as mine." She reaches out and takes the infant who was asleep seeing her fair hair with dark highlights a rarity in harpies but not uncommon as her hair would more then likely darken up to a brown or black as she got older but she'd always have a little blonde in her hair, with powers a queen had she altered the little girls features making her appear more like a harpy to another of her kind, and other species who couldn't be affected without specially saying them but as she was less likely to see any but the mountain animals and harpies it wasn't likely she'd be in any danger or found out, after this was done she placed the young girl into a grass and hay basket she had made for her, carefully chosen materials for the baby's more softer skin because of her inbreeding, she sighed not wanting to harm her sister but she extended her claws and jumped her sister who fought back though was pleased to see her sister care for her

Although the daughter’s shame in her mother is evident, she is also prideful of her as well. The strong love that the mother and daughter share is pervasive throughout the story. The story is being told by the daughter after she is all grown up. The fact that Jones uses such vivid detail on the mother’s preparation for her daughters first day of school shows that the daughter loved her mom and all that she did for her. The daughter recalls that her mother spent a lot of time preparing her when she says, “My mother has uncharacteristically spent nearly an hour on my hair that morning, plaiting and replaiting so that now my scalp tingles.” (Jones) She also remembers that her “pale green slip and underwear are new, the underwear having come three to a plastic package with a little girl on the front who appears to be dancing.” (Jones) The daughter having remembered details like these illustrate that she has an immense love and takes pride