Covenant Child Analysis

The novel, “Covenant Child”, written by Terri Blackstock, is a metaphor of God’s undying love. Mrs. Blackstock used the parable of the prodigal son and drew an analogy of Amanda waiting for her step-daughters’ return with such patience and loving that only our God portrays. The theme of the story is that God’s love is unconditional and undying. He embraced us his powerful love when we were still his enemy.
To begin with, when Kara woke up in the hospital after her abortion, an acrimonious conversation was drew, as it’s stated, “‘Well, I’m not staying here, in the enemy camp.’ … My hand started bleeding where I’d pulled the needle out, and I mashed it with my finger and started looking for my clothes. Amanda started to cry, and finally, she started toward the door. ‘Look, I’ll just leave....’ ‘Fine. Leave, then’ She stopped at the door, ‘Lizzie, don’t worry about any of the paper work or money. I’ve taken care of everything.” So it came to be that due to the excessive fees, her sister, Lizzie, called Amanda for help. Amanda came the moment she called, just like she promised she would. She got all the paperworks done and paid the fees. Yet Kara returned Amanda with rude comments. Kara decided …show more content…
She only regarded me with sad eyes.’...I don’t blame you for not trusting me, but I’ve come to tell you that you don’t have to hire a lawyer or manipulate into suing me. I want to share all of it with you, as if you were children from my own womb.’... ‘People don’t just ride into town in a limo and offer you all that unless they want something,’ I said. (pg 170) This quote shows that although Amanda is offering the twins all their fortune. Nevertheless, Kara have been washed with lies about Amanda, and how she killed her family. Hence, she always shows rudeness and disrespect towards her. Kara must decide between trusting in faith, or in despair and anger. Nonetheless, all she know was poverty, so she wouldn’t believe in