The Tallis Narrative

At first Sal didn’t like the idea of her mom having another child. She wondered what was wrong with just having her. Later, she starts to like the idea of having a little sibling and she’s excited. When her mom has the baby, the doctors carry the baby out of the room and Sal sees her dead baby sister. Sal wanted to hold it and she thought it might come back to life.

Anne is so accustomed to having to be the perfect daughter and ‘trophy’ wife that she knows no different. Later on in the novel she becomes more aware of her parents disappointment with her spots saying 'You just don 't understand! The first thing Mummy looks at when I come home each term. How can she present a daughter with spots? Four daughters successfully married off and now the last one has to get spots.

While she, her brother Fritz, and their mother are in the East, their father and other brother are in the West. Four years later, on her way home from school, Gerta, who is now twelve, spots someone familiar from a viewing tower in the West. It was her brother, Dominic. The next day on her way to school, she sees Dominic again, only he was with her father. Once it was distinct he had her full attention, he proceeded to do a dance he used to do for her before she went to bed.

Love is an involuntary factor that many people have come across in life. In the novel The Secret Life of Bees, by Sue Monk Kidd, the main character Lily, has an internal conflict with her mother which affects how open she is to love. Lily grew up with her father and the culpability of her mother's death. (more info) She was raised with a harsh understanding of love due to the lack of love given to her all throughout her life, for she was more open to love because she hasn't doted as a child.However, Lily found love through the Daughter of Mary, the Boatwright sisters, and Rosaleen, who later taught her how to love herself. Paragraph 1 Lily's form of love was altered due to how she was raised.

Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird Chapter 4 starts with the main characters Jem and Scout anxiously waiting on the arrival of their summer break. When their break arrives after a long year of school Jem and Scout once again meet up with their old friend Dill with whom they will spend the summer with. After the boredom of summer already hits them Jem, Scout, and Dill decide to make up some new games. When starting to play these games Jem pushes Scout toward the Radley Place while she is in a tire and cannot stop herself. After eventually stopping Scout herself hears a low laugh coming from the Radley Place.

Armand and Desiree have known each other ever since they were little so when they grew up they got married. Desiree’s parents disagreed to their marriage and didn 't let their daughter leave and ruren the name of the family. So Desiree and Armand left regardless to what her parents say and got a home that can be described as a sad looking place. As time went on living by themselves Desiree had found out that she was pregnant. When Armand found out he was filled with joy and excitement.

And her mother a socialite of intimidating standing. Her older brother spoiled as the only heir to the family name, and was as cruel and twisted as her father. The middle children a pair of female twins that only wished to toy with Prue as if she were a pet brought home for them. She was not given much, just the hand downs of her siblings and a room in the attic of their large home. Everything she had was a hand me down, her clothes, shoes, books, furniture all of it second hand.

They both “made [each other] sick” (Page 66). Geraldine, had never intended to have her, she already, “had the two perfect children that she wanted… [Sophie] was unexpected…and big and [her] birth was very difficult [as she] was a ‘huge baby’ [which meant] all kinds of complications with [her]; tearing and so many stitches that she was immobilised for weeks” (Page 84). Poor Geraldine! To add more to the pot, her mother had to give up competitive dancing as her partner of six years, “had found someone younger and more reliable” (Page 84). What happened to faithfulness?

Scott Fitzgerald portrays love as essentially impracticable fancy. When Daisy’s her daughter was born, her husband Tom was nowhere to be found. The nurses handed her baby to her and she said, “ I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Daisy just like every women back then would just ignore the signs of cheating because they couldn’t do anything about it because they were defined by their husbands. Being a fool means her daughter realize that her husband is cheating. That girls should be in a stupid bliss so it wouldn’t affect them because they wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

In “Desiree’s Baby”, Kate Chopin writes about a young girl named Desiree, who is abandoned and taken in by Madame Valmonde and her husband, however Desiree’s new family has zero knowledge of Desiree’s background. As Desiree grows up she falls in love with Armand Aubigny, who ignores the mysterious background of Desiree and asks her for marriage. During their marriage, the couple is able to have a son; although, Desiree begins to notice that her son does not have the similar appearance as a white baby. Confused and heartbroken, Desiree rushes to her husband for help, yet Armand pushes her away and forces her to leave him by claiming that Desiree is not white. With Desiree gone, Armand finds a letter from his mother who hopes that Armand will

With a short-tempered father, an overworking coach, and a sister she didn’t know about; her life was not a piece of cake. Dominique’s birth and childhood was fairly simple. She was a healthy baby and was descend to become a gymnast. Dominique’s parents, Dumitru and Camelia Moceanu, were both gymnasts and competed in Romania when they were younger so naturally, gymnastics came to Dominique easily. When Dominique was three months old, her parents wanted to test her strength to see if she had what it took to be a gymnast.

Christina Milian lost her new born nephew, a day after he was born, and shared this fateful news on her facebook page. Her nephew Richie Bear battled an uncommon birth defect, and fought till he could no longer make it. He was diagnosed with omphalocele during pregnancy, a condition where an infant 's intestine or other abdominal organs are formed outside the body. The doctors had recommended Christina 's sister Danielle to abort the baby, but she and her husband Richard Dickerson went against that decision. "I said to [Richard], 'Could you live with this? '