Deadly, by Julie Chibbaro, has many characters.
This work takes place in 1906. Prudence Galewski is the main character.
Her whole life she has gone to a gender role school, where girls learn how to be “lady-like” and how to become elegant women, who will “Grow like roses, blossoming into a beautiful woman in silk.” and learn how to do jobs fit for females, like keeping books. Prudence also helps her mother with her job, and that is being a midwife. Prudence helps hold the woman as her mother delivers the child, and cleans it for it’s new parents.
With the loss of her brother, Benny, and her father being missing in action on the battlefield for nine years, Prudence wants to do something more with her life, something that would make her brother …show more content…
She wants to know all she can about cells, and how things grow. She wants to know why things die, and how living and dead beings can live and stay inside another, as she saw from a dog with its owner, when the dog was vomiting worms onto the ground and into the earth.
With her curiosity, she is also determined. Prudence wants to push herself to know as much as she can. She wants to become a big scientist, one that can cure disease, study death, and she has really, really, really wanted to look through a microscope and actually see cells for herself.
But she is determined for something else too. She doesn’t want to believe her father is dead, even though people say he is. Missing for nine years and “dead” are two different things for her. She does miss her father, but she seems like the longer he is missing, the farther she is drifting from his memory.
Because of her father and her brother, deep inside, she is sad. Though it is rare for her to show it, she truly misses having a nice family, other than her mother and herself sitting in a room, quiet, unable to talk to each other about them. She remembers the night she laid with her brother, who had yellow fever, and listened to his groans until he was
This work takes place in 1906. Prudence Galewski is the main character.
Her whole life she has gone to a gender role school, where girls learn how to be “lady-like” and how to become elegant women, who will “Grow like roses, blossoming into a beautiful woman in silk.” and learn how to do jobs fit for females, like keeping books. Prudence also helps her mother with her job, and that is being a midwife. Prudence helps hold the woman as her mother delivers the child, and cleans it for it’s new parents.
With the loss of her brother, Benny, and her father being missing in action on the battlefield for nine years, Prudence wants to do something more with her life, something that would make her brother …show more content…
She wants to know all she can about cells, and how things grow. She wants to know why things die, and how living and dead beings can live and stay inside another, as she saw from a dog with its owner, when the dog was vomiting worms onto the ground and into the earth.
With her curiosity, she is also determined. Prudence wants to push herself to know as much as she can. She wants to become a big scientist, one that can cure disease, study death, and she has really, really, really wanted to look through a microscope and actually see cells for herself.
But she is determined for something else too. She doesn’t want to believe her father is dead, even though people say he is. Missing for nine years and “dead” are two different things for her. She does miss her father, but she seems like the longer he is missing, the farther she is drifting from his memory.
Because of her father and her brother, deep inside, she is sad. Though it is rare for her to show it, she truly misses having a nice family, other than her mother and herself sitting in a room, quiet, unable to talk to each other about them. She remembers the night she laid with her brother, who had yellow fever, and listened to his groans until he was