Life Without Heritage In Desiree's Baby, By Kate Chopin
Life without Heritage
Heritage, a lot of people sees it as being only the past, with no significance to their everyday lives what so ever, others see it as merely objects and money pasted down from older generations to their younger generations, but really heritage means much more than that. Ones heritage is the lessons learned from elder thus helping the next generation to jot make the same mistakes, it's the roots that make a person who they are. The world without recollection of its heritage, the world has no progress and only stands still waiting on the same mistakes to cycle back around. A person with no knowledge of their heritage is a person with no knowledge of themselves, and not knowing one's self can lead to mishaps directing that …show more content…
Armand is born in Paris and then his Father moves him to the United States after the death of his mother when he was eight, which “caused him to suppress the past” (Foy 223). Armand then becomes a slave owner whom has just gotten married and gained a baby boy. He is normally harsh slave owner, but "Marriage, and later the birth of his son had softened Armand Aubigny imperious and exacting nature greatly” (Chopin 233), but his kind heartedness doesn't last long. After he begins to notice the African American features on his infant child he begins to neglect his new family and become more ruthless than ever. Armand then confronts his wife about, their baby boy's dark skin, and she replies by saying 'Look at my hand; whiter than yours, Armand' “(Chopin 234). This quote is the first sign of him not knowing his true heritages “the authorial narrator uses various devices to indicate that his bad character comes from his black blood “(Shen 294). In the end he tells his wife along with is newly born child to leave with nowhere to go. The loss of Armand's mother at a young age makes him ruthless having recollection only one part of his heritage makes him banish his wife and child to a terrible death. He later after all his family is gone he finds a letter from his mother saying 'night and day , I thank God for having so arranged our lives that our Dear Armand will never know that this mother , who adores him , belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery'"(Chopin 235 )
Heritage, a lot of people sees it as being only the past, with no significance to their everyday lives what so ever, others see it as merely objects and money pasted down from older generations to their younger generations, but really heritage means much more than that. Ones heritage is the lessons learned from elder thus helping the next generation to jot make the same mistakes, it's the roots that make a person who they are. The world without recollection of its heritage, the world has no progress and only stands still waiting on the same mistakes to cycle back around. A person with no knowledge of their heritage is a person with no knowledge of themselves, and not knowing one's self can lead to mishaps directing that …show more content…
Armand is born in Paris and then his Father moves him to the United States after the death of his mother when he was eight, which “caused him to suppress the past” (Foy 223). Armand then becomes a slave owner whom has just gotten married and gained a baby boy. He is normally harsh slave owner, but "Marriage, and later the birth of his son had softened Armand Aubigny imperious and exacting nature greatly” (Chopin 233), but his kind heartedness doesn't last long. After he begins to notice the African American features on his infant child he begins to neglect his new family and become more ruthless than ever. Armand then confronts his wife about, their baby boy's dark skin, and she replies by saying 'Look at my hand; whiter than yours, Armand' “(Chopin 234). This quote is the first sign of him not knowing his true heritages “the authorial narrator uses various devices to indicate that his bad character comes from his black blood “(Shen 294). In the end he tells his wife along with is newly born child to leave with nowhere to go. The loss of Armand's mother at a young age makes him ruthless having recollection only one part of his heritage makes him banish his wife and child to a terrible death. He later after all his family is gone he finds a letter from his mother saying 'night and day , I thank God for having so arranged our lives that our Dear Armand will never know that this mother , who adores him , belongs to the race that is cursed with the brand of slavery'"(Chopin 235 )