(Challenging) Finish Mrs. Wender's speech on p. 46.

(Challenging) Finish Mrs. Wender's speech on p. 46.

JShepherd 25 Mar 2010 20:27

On p. 46, Mrs. Wender asks her husband "Why are you so sweet to me, when all I've brought you is - ?" What do you think she was going to say? Imagine the rest of her speech, using what you know about Mrs. Wender's character in the context of David's society.

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Keira Remsey 30 Mar 2010 01:10

I can magine the line would have ended along the lines of
"Why are you so sweet to me, when all I've brought you is shame?" or "disgrace?"
I think this because Mrs. Wendler is very cautious and safe when it comes to Sophie and just that line gives off this feeling that she blames herself. This also opens up a window to where the women possibly stand. This whole village seems to be in a primitive world where religion is law, and if history repeats itself, it's not so far fetched to think women are not treated fairly. Women could be blamed for having Deviation children and with the blame placed, it's easy to see how Mrs. Wender would think of herself as a burden.

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Re: (Challenging) Finish Mrs. Wender's speech on p. 46.

Alyssa Georgeneau 30 Mar 2010 21:05

"Why are you so sweet to me, when all i brought you is a deviation. All i brought you was shame and troubles. All the touble you have to go through for Sophie and I. You love our little Sophie even though she is a "mutant" to our society. I could not have asked for a better husband. And now we have to run and hide from our own community. I don't deserve your love or your sympathy. I cannot give you a proper child. I'm so sorry."

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alex verdam 31 Mar 2010 02:40

"Oh, Johnny dear. Why are you so sweet tome, when all I've brought you is- discrase. I am probly more trouble then I'm worth, and yet you treat me and Sophie so well." To Mrs.Wender, living in a society where women are already under valued, she has been awful in not only haveing a deviasion but going through all the trouble of keeping it a secret from the world. She thinks that by the comunities standards she is a horrible wife and she wants to thank him for being a wonderful husband.

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Nejla 05 Apr 2010 22:35

Well my assumption to the end of the sentence was:
"Oh, Johnny dear. Why are you so sweet to me, when all I've brought you is"- basically any word around disapointment or misfortune to their life.
She feels as though she let her huband down, Johnny, because their daughter is not considered normal in their world, because of her extra toe.
Woman were implied a lower class than men, and it's a womans "duty" to have children, and if the child has a characteristic that isn't considered normal
the fingers would be pointed towards the mother.

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Lindsay Gordon 09 Apr 2010 14:57

"All I've brought you is hatred. Hatred from everyone. I couldn't ask for a better husband because there isn't one. Sophie has an extra toe, and that's made out to be a terrible thing, but you still love her and you still love me even though I brought you this tradgedy. I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry" (46)

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Shawna Grimminck 13 Apr 2010 20:55

"Why are you so sweet to me, when all I've brought you is trouble? We pleaded and prayed for a perfect daugher, and got one. But perfect to us, has been far different than the idea of perfect to our society. I've birthed a child that has caused us to live in a paranoid time; always cautious of her feet. Feet! Such simple things that somehow turned our daughter into a mutant in the eyes of God, and the citizens of town. I see how you love her, but how could you love me the same? Am I not as much of a mutant as she for being her mother? Are we not mutants for loving her the same? Does that not make us different?"