Aldmerrow: A Short Story

"Then be ready my boy, we will be leaving for New York in the evening in our private jet, and we will be meeting jade and her family there" a big smile grew on my face with that dad stood from his seat giving me a wink and left my cabin without waiting for my reply.

Mary Cassatt was a sister to four. She had three older brothers whose names were Alexander, Gardner, and Robert, who went by Robbie and who she was the closest to. Her sister’s name was Lydia. Mary’s father was Robert Cassatt, a successful businessman, and was married to Mary’s mother Katherine. Unlike Robert’s father Denis, Robert was very lucky and since he was very successful as a banker and a stockbroker, he made an excellent living for his family. This allowed them to not only move a lot, but also travel the world. Eventually, Robert moved his family to Europe. They settled in Paris, France, and when they got there, Mary saw that there was plenty of things and activities to do. Paris was very different from

Back in the eighteenth century, marriage was seen as a business contract without considering love as the main reason for any relationship. According to Ingrid H. Tague, an assistant

‘Love’s not love when it is mingled with regards that stands aloof from th’entire point. Will you have her? She is herself a dowry.’

“Farrah, what is going on the wagon?” Luca said as he was looking at his older sister. They were coming back from the field picking some of the wild flowers that were growing in the area. They were on their way to the North to the village Boug Fruborne. They would be able to find some work for themselves, with hope that they would be able to make it through the winter. It was something that they were use to they were travelers, roaming through the country side picking up work were it was possible. Farrah and her Mother and sister Celina made tincture and sold herbs of variety since they picked some many of them as they traveled the lands. But at the moment it seemed their parents were having their usually argument. Celina was off to the side playing her violin trying to drown out the yelling.

From her vantage point, just off stage, Sarah Jones Weeks Caldwell fixed her eyes on the congregation.

There once was a girl named Bailey, she was known for her rich family. She lived with both her parents and her three siblings; Alexander, Christian and Dominic. Alexander, 20, was the oldest of the siblings. Christian and Dominic, 19, were twin brothers. Although they were identical twins and looked so much alike, you could differentiate between them. Christian always acted like a buffoon anywhere the family would go. Sometimes he would use his silliness to get a girl. On the other hand, Dominic always kept to himself, he would give people a baleful look when they stare or try to start a conversation with him.

The book Elsewhere is a story about a girl named Lizzie. Lizzie was just an ordinary teenager with an average life. She had a family who loved her dearly, an annoying little brother named Alvy, and very caring parents. However, Lizzie’s life went head over heels while riding on her bike. The book then spirals into an array of events and situations that have opened my eyes to many realities and similarities that I have shared with her family. For instance Alvy, a young hyper and spontaneous little boy is going through an experience that not many can relate to. Alvy and I share similarities because we are both faced with a heartrending and lonesome circumstance that will affect us forever.

Now that she is all alone and her grandfather sick with a summer grippe, Mattie panics and wishes that her mother was there to tell her what to do. Mattie knew that she had to do something, or grandfather would die. She searches for food and water. She finds water by some willow trees that were next to a stream and Mattie was also was able to find some berries in the bushes.” A row

The sun began its descent into the west. Beams of light scattered amongst the large pines covering the countryside. It was a perfect day for hunting, but as the day neared its end the northern chill began to creep in. Sapphire Blackwulf sat atop her wooden cart as she wheeled it through the gates of Narsis, she had her head held high, not able to hold back her sense of accomplishment that seemed to emanate from her. She relished with pride from the two elk bucks that lay motionless in the back of her cart; the evidence of her successful hunt. From her seat, Sapphire noticed the occasional lingering eyes of the townsfolk, but she could not tell if it was in mild fascination, or something else entirely. What she was certain of however, was when woman of the Dohl brought

Pitmerden was a place full of wonder and beauty it was settled on a mountain side with a waterfall running through the centre of the city. The houses were all identical and close together they all had cedar roofs and mahogany walls. The city had cobbled streets running around the city. This stunning place was home to many races but was mainly dominated by humans most races while not getting along anywhere else get along well in Pitmerden this was all down to Bellona a woman worshipped by the entire of Pitmerden. A long time ago in the War Of Corrupted Lands her hometown was destroyed and only a small group of humans survived she led them to a mountain where they made a settlement and over time more and more people came to the settlement and the bigger and eventually after the war, they built it up into a city.

The economics of marriage was not the only pressure on children to marry where their parents directed. Sixteenth-century children, and girls in particular, were very much brought up to obey, and to believe that it was their duty to their parents… to marry the person chosen for them. It would have taken a very strong-minded girl indeed to have refused to follow her parents’ wishes. Girls who did refuse the partner offered could find themselves bullied by their parents. (3)

Astrid is desperate to find her little brother. She thinks that he could be with his mother at the resort that they stay at. No luck finding the little brother when they get there, but they find something strange when they get there.

“When they were ten he asked her to marry him… When they were seventeen they made love for the first time, on a bed straw in a shed” (Krauss, 11). He loved this girl so much, but she was sent away to America by her father. The boy promised he would earn some money in order to find the girl he loved. However, when the boy found the girl, who was now a woman and married to another guy. He walked away because he promised her he would never ever fall in love with another girl.

After her father died, Mary Astell was left without a dowry, resulting in her being considered incompatible for marriage. In her book, Some Reflections Upon Marriage, Astell pointed out that there were only few lively marriages in England because of the way the English institution worked. Marriages in England were determined by income, and no thought went into the emotional harmony and compatibility of husband and wife. This was so rendering to Astell’s life because she didn’t have the money to marry someone with the same viewpoints as her or even respectable enough to take her hand in marriage. Mary Astell proclaimed that “[marriage] for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy” (Astell 41). In this quote, Mary Astell is saying that men and women rarely marry for love because it was more common for them to be bounded together for financial benefits and an increase of social status. But, when a couple married for love, they made a larger mark on the world this is because it showed that there was a step closer in the direction of women marrying a man that will love her and had no need to support her financially. Astell believed that women should not be viewed as a slave or property, and that they should have the ability to chose their own destiny. She showed that men rarely married for love because if a man admired a woman for her wit, than an unsuccessful marriage would