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).

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

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.

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.

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.

Ceres returned home after looking for her lost daughter, Proserpina. The grieving mother had tears in her eyes as her hands and knees trembled with worry. Ceres sat down on her bed crying away at the sadness that plagued her mind, she bared the thought of a past event that involved a daughter before Proserpina, her name was Petunia.

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

Her mother, or so she imagined, was gentle with a set of blue eyes and red hair. Maddox was awfully marvelous at making a cherry pie so it became Georgiana’s favorite. She herself was a short fourth grader, just extending past the little kid stage, and exhibited her thankful nature every day. She had never heard of her father, yet longed to wonder why she did not have one. This thought occured, once she became mature. Georgiana also pondered that she had no other relatives that she had met. She was quite timid to ask Maddox, her mother, why this was so, and therefore it never happened.

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.

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

Towards the beginning of the story, we are introduced to a 10-year-old, unnamed female character and her sibling, who is alternatively named as “Lord”. This shows us right from the beginning how, from birth, a man is considered more of importance than a woman. Living on a fox farm in Ontario Canada, the girl helps her father in his work by taking care of

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.

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

Sometimes her mom would make her help with cutting onions or peeling peaches and as soon as she was done she would run out the door when her mom’s back was turned. She viewed the chores inside the house was endless and depressing and would much rather work outside. She hears her mother stating that she can’t wait till the son, Laird gets bigger so he can do the chores outside and the girl can do the chorus inside with her. The mother states, “I just get my back turned and she runs off. It’s not like I had a girl in the family at all.” At this point the girl feels like she can’t trust her mother, she knows her mother loved her yet she feels like her mom is always plotting against her to keep her from working with her father. She didn’t expect her father to really listen to what her mother was saying, Laird, in her mind wouldn’t be able to do the job as well as she does. Looking at her father’s bloody apron she reminds that reader that the foxes were feed horse meat, other farmers whose horses will get old or injured would call her father and him and henry would go kill it and butchered it. However, if they already had a lot of meat they would keep them for a while. The winter she turned eleven they had two horses, Flora and Mack. It was this winter where she heard her mother go on more about her helping in the house. She states that she no longer feels safe because the people around her who thought the same way. She stated, “The word girl had formerly seemed to