Salt Garden

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

when the narrator is confronted with the unendurable thought of not being capable of protecting her child from death. The story opens with the narrator's recollection of a childhood memory of a little boy drowning near her home. At the boy's funeral she also recalls thinking of how no one, not ever his father, could have saved him from his demise, yet it wasn't until later on in life that she realized what this had actually meant. The instant in her life that she came to this realization, was not until she, herself was put in a position where her child's death was non preventable, even by her. It was at this time that she figured out that, even as a parent, your power over your children is limited and there will come a time when not even the parents can protect their children from obliteration. Although Meg, the narrator's daughter, did not perish, the event frightened the narrator enough to come to this resolution, parents possess the power to create a child and in doing so, ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE: