Alex Hau
9/12/18
Honors English
11
Love
Has No Color
“I don’t care what people say, you
are and always will be my daughter” Margret whispered to her infant daughter.
After being the nanny for a year, Margret felt she was the only one who could
take of the baby after her parents were killed in a horrific car accident.
Margret new that this would make hers and the baby’s lives difficult, but she
never expected to be hated.
“Since when can those people take
our children for their own?” whispered one man to another as the passed her on
the street. Margret lived in a very small town in Missouri, with a population
of 311. Word quickly spread of a black woman raising a white child as her own.
She couldn’t go to the grocery store without being berated and feeling a thousand
eyes on her.
Margret would think back to the days
when she was just a nanny. “I was raising this baby when her parents were alive,
why is it different now that her parents are dead?” she quietly asked herself
as she held her. Margret feared the days when Susan learned to talk, for she
was afraid of the questions she would ask. “Why is you skin a different color?
Why did you raise me and give me this horrible life? Why do people hate me?”
Margret feared a lot of things, but
she didn’t let them overcome her. She knew she was the only one who could take
of this baby, and she was the only one her loved her. Margret loved Susan with her
entire heart and knew that this love would conquer the challenges they faced
together. People never did accept her as the mother of Susan. They chose to
think of her as a mere baby feeding machine and not a mother. These people
never saw the tender side of her love, they never saw that the color of one’s
skin has no impact on how they could raise a child. She started walking home,
and kissed the child’s head ever so gently.
7 comments:
I think its about how love doesn't care what people think it just happens
This was great Alex. I really really enjoyed it. I think your purpose/message was to demonstrate how love can conquer hatred through the eyes of a mother. The conflict of racial judgement was a great way to showcase just how long Margaret's love is. Very well written! :)
This story really shows the strength of love. With it anything is possible.
I really enjoyed this. Love comes in all forms, shapes and sizes. Love is not to be judged but others but admired.
I think that you are an amazing writer. I think the purpose is that love overcomes anything.
I really enjoyed this story. You’re a great writer. I think the purpose is that love can conquer anything.
To me this story is showing how whites would think less of black people and never even consider them to accomplish and do anything besides follow their master's command. It shows the individuality of the character and how she doesn't care what others think, she cares for the baby so she will raise it regardless of what others say
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