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Virgin Mary Allusion

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• When the father discovers his daughter gave birth to a baby who he thinks survived on bread and water, he uses a biblical allusion, the Virgin Mary. It refers to the birth of Jesus and how it was a miracle, so when the father says "surely the Virgin Mary had intervened", he implies that the baby was a miracle given by the Virgin Mary.
This passage also shows how time has been a huge factor between women getting pregnant without out a husband now and then. In the early 1900’s women were ill-treated for getting pregnant before marriage by the public as well as their family. In this case the teenage girl was locked up by her own father, so she wouldn’t put the family in shame. Now days parents as well as the public are little more accepting

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