Mother, Daughter Bonding

Author’s Note

You never know when things are going to completely change for you. You will be fighting with your mom and go to bed without fixing the problem. You come home from school the next day and she got in a car accident during the day. Hannah’s last conversation with her mother wasn’t the best. She leaves for a while and her mom is dead. No goodbyes. I wrote this because it is showing what her moms point of view is.  

     Hannah Pritchard is not the typical girl you would talk to. She doesn’t like to follow all the rules that are made for her and other girls her age. In the late 1700’s you find girls wearing long dresses, not, wearing pants and high socks like the boys do. Hannah Pritchard is the kind of girl that wants to do manual labor like her father and brother, she doesn’t want to follow the typical things that girls are taught to do. For example, dishes, laundry, cleaning. Hannah said “Have you ever noticed that whatever work women do is always waiting to be done again? You will just have to wash those clothes again next month. Dinner will have to be cooked again tomorrow. When father and Jack are done today, the field will be done.” That showed a big part of what Hannah wants in life, an adventure.

            The mom was not aware that that would be the last conversation with her daughter so she saw this as any other day. Hannah was not doing the things that her mom wanted her to do. Like, learning to clean, do the laundry, wearing dresses, and other things typical women would do. Her mother just wanted her to take after her and learn to run a house, because she too would be running her own someday.

            Not knowing that it would be the last conversation they didn’t show their emotions to each other and say their goodbyes. If you were in the situation where you knew it would be the last time you would ever talk to your mom wouldn’t you also tell her you loved her, and give her a big hug? I would. The mom was annoyed with her daughter that she forgot why she loved Hannah so much. Leaving the house on the sour note did not help that it was their last conversation. If they had the point of view of the mother it would show more of a sensitive side and the love for her daughter she has.

            If the book was written in her point of view different emotions would show and make you look at their dilemma differently. It would bring out a sadder side of the story not just a normal day conversation with your mom. The reader is also not aware of the future that is held for Hannah’s mother so you don’t see the conversation as a big deal but if the reader saw it in the mother’s point of view the reader may have a different theory.