Sarah Laughed And Angela's Ashes By Joanna Greenburg

In this short story, the author Joanna Greenburg starts off the story by telling us that a mother is waiting by the window waiting for someone to arrive to her house. She is rushing around the house trying to hustle and get the house clean for her visitors. The reader comes to find out that the visitors are her son Abel and his new wife that are coming in from Chicago. As she was waiting for them to arrive she has a flashback of when her and her husband Matthew get married. The flashback then continues through all of the milestones in her life when it is then reveled that both her husband and her son are deaf. They did everything that they could to make it so Abel was a normal boy. Living with two deaf men they would appreciate all of the small things in their lives. When they finally arrive the mother is dumbfounded to see that Abel and his wife are signing to each other. As soon as they arrived it was evident that Abel and his wife were deeply in love. As their time there continues the mother because envious and frustrated that the young married couple is having such a good and happy time together. This built up a tension in her own marriage until she realized what she was doing. She then became guilty when she …show more content…
One way And Sarah Laughed demonstrated the theme is when the mother, Sarah was in her flashback. She was talking about how she saved every note or anything that Matthew had ever written her. A second example is when Abel and his wife were laughing and having a good time signing back and forth to each other. It may not seem like much to anyone else, but since they were both deaf they appreciated each and every little thing with each other. The third way that this short story signified the theme is at the end of the book when the mother overcomes her envy and starts to admire how the wife is with Abel and even begins to learn sign language