Personal Narrative Essay: Perceval's Child

Mary did not mean to kill her husband. She just wanted him to stay forever and be her

​She turned away and took a deep breath, wondering how to say it, and when she finally started, her voice was quiet. “I’m pregnant. You remember Ian, right? He was our high school friend.” Lawrence sat in silence for endless minutes, staring at Daisy, unable to believe what he had just heard, yet believing it. He could see in her eyes that she meant every word she had said. “I’m sorry,” she said softly. He nodded understandingly.

An hour earlier, Sefa, their baby’s birth mother, had called Percival, crying that she was in pain and bleeding, afraid she was losing the

Audra was incredibly excited, too. She had seen animals born, but never a baby. This would be her first experience with childbirth, and she hoped it would prepare her for her own delivery.

Mary’s mother died ten days after giving birth to her, an act that Mary’s father was never quick to forgive; in fact he blamed Mary for his wife’s death and this often forced Mary to attempt to take her place. This was often in the form of sitting on literary discussions and meeting her

In the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy, God sent Gabriel to Mary and told her that she was highly favored and that the Lord is with her. Then the angel told her to not be afraid and that she will conceive and give birth to a son, whom they will name Jesus. Mary ask the angel how this will be as she is a virgin. The angel told her about Elizabeth and that no word from God will every fail.

A lusty baby’s cry met Percival’s ears. His baby. “Why not? Is the baby all right? Is Fleur?”

Perceval’s words were cut off when Mary emerged from the infirmary and stepped out into the hallway. The woman adjusted her, gray, thick bun as she spoke.

“The first person I told about my pregnancy was my best friend Stacy; she was very supportive through the whole process.” As Stacy would ironically later go through the same thing, they have always stuck together through thick and thin. Even today, nineteen years later, Stacy and Andrea are still best friends. Through the process she then told her boyfriend’s sister-in-law Jennifer and her boss Katherine. As soon as the news was shared, it spread like wildfire through the small town of Springhill, Louisiana. “Suddenly everyone known, I had no time to protect myself and tell the people who really mattered.” Before she even had the chance, her boyfriend and father both had already heard the news. My father was in disbelief and her father was furious about the situation, but even more furious that he had to heard the news from someone that was not his daughter.

Later that day, following a scandalously-good afternoon of delicious and repeated sex, Joan slipped her light shift over her head, rose from bed, and crossed to the dining table. She dug around in her cloth satchel; Joan had a present for Perceval and was so excited. She sealed her fingers around the gift and approached the bed again. A shirtless Perceval sat up at attention.

Lastly, Mary shows remorse when she walks in and sees her husband's dead body after going to the store. She was able to show emotion at the sight of her husband lying in the floor, showing that she knew that she murdered him and was fully aware of her actions. She cries and is sad because she really did love him, but her anger got the best of her, and she murdered him in the heat of the moment. “All the old love and longing welled up inside her, and she ran over to him, knelt down beside him, and

An important event in Berry’s life was learning she is pregnant with her first child. She is very excited to be expecting since this is her first child. Berry describes that right now it is mentally setting in that she will be having a child soon. She is due in May and she wants to provide the best for her child. Her pregnancy is also important to her family. Berry’s sister-in-law recently experienced a miscarriage. This left Berry’s family scared that a miscarriage might happen to her.

A woman’s job is to cook, clean, and bear children. Although it may not remain true now, many thought this for most of history. A woman had her duty to her husband and that served as almost all of her worth. During the Enlightenment, some women began to question this norm and to voice their unhappiness. The Enlightenment period was an intellectual movement that sought to reform society and advance knowledge. Even with all of the Enlightenment’s great advancements, women still did not possess many rights. Women continued to be “oppressed and kept to the private sphere,” separated from men. These societal pressures faced by women are, arguably, the main topic of Mary

Mary having only the cloths on her back, a sick baby, and a moldy cake in her pocket could only rely on God’s providence to keep her and give her favor. She was wounded when taken captive, but God sent her someone to help her and give her medicine to apply to her wound. “Then I took oaken leaves and laid to my side, and with the blessing of God it healed me also,” (Rowlandson, 261). We may not consider these to be big blessings, but to Mary being in such a desolate state that they became her bread and butter. After the death of her baby and being of low spirits, Mary asked God for a

She didn’t get a response but she knew that Susan had heard her and would eventually come out. As Mary sat on her wooden bench waiting for her daughter to bring out next load of laundry, she was distracted by her ashen, blistered hands. It wasn’t uncommon for Mary to lose herself gazing at her hands. The rough, marred skin was the only physical account of all the works she had done over her life. She was making a note to put some balm on her hands after she finished for the day and simultaneously reminiscing about a scar she had gotten from harvesting tobacco as a little girl when she heard a rustling at the gate.