The Fifth Child
The Fifth Child
The story of the Lovatt’s family begins in England, at the end of the 60’s and their problems begin when their fifth child was born, he was a trouble maker and how their perfect life went from being almost perfect to a total hell. The characters of the story are; David, the father, son of divorced parents that never gave him the attention he needed, making him go through a lot of sadness. When he was a little kid, David had a bedroom on every house he would stayed, but his favorite bedroom was the one he had at his mom house and that’s just how he wanted his future house to be like. Harriet (the mother), in the other hand, had a pretty good childhood, a home and a united family, she was a good student and her parents teach her that a family life it was a happy life. A very important character in the story is Dorothy’s character, Harriet’s mom, a woman always available to help her family. As the story goes on, Harriet and David start having kids; the first one is Luke, followed by Helen, Jane, Paul and finishing with Ben, the main character of the story. In the short period of time, in which David and Harriet had of knowing each other, they decide to start a family and have babies like all the other couples do. You can notice that their relationship it’s going in the right direction by them two showing good communication, a lot of trust towards each other, making the good decisions and the idea of become parents it’s not a problem for either of them. Their life it’s like they had always dream of, except for some problems in Harriet’s pregnancy (nothing dangerous) and having to go to James (David’s dad) to ask for some money, because while the family was getting bigger so do their expenses and they couldn’t make it with David’s salary; for the rest, they lived in a pretty big house, where they could have family reunions in the holydays like Christmas or spring break, and they would have a good time together. Their house was located just
The story of the Lovatt’s family begins in England, at the end of the 60’s and their problems begin when their fifth child was born, he was a trouble maker and how their perfect life went from being almost perfect to a total hell. The characters of the story are; David, the father, son of divorced parents that never gave him the attention he needed, making him go through a lot of sadness. When he was a little kid, David had a bedroom on every house he would stayed, but his favorite bedroom was the one he had at his mom house and that’s just how he wanted his future house to be like. Harriet (the mother), in the other hand, had a pretty good childhood, a home and a united family, she was a good student and her parents teach her that a family life it was a happy life. A very important character in the story is Dorothy’s character, Harriet’s mom, a woman always available to help her family. As the story goes on, Harriet and David start having kids; the first one is Luke, followed by Helen, Jane, Paul and finishing with Ben, the main character of the story. In the short period of time, in which David and Harriet had of knowing each other, they decide to start a family and have babies like all the other couples do. You can notice that their relationship it’s going in the right direction by them two showing good communication, a lot of trust towards each other, making the good decisions and the idea of become parents it’s not a problem for either of them. Their life it’s like they had always dream of, except for some problems in Harriet’s pregnancy (nothing dangerous) and having to go to James (David’s dad) to ask for some money, because while the family was getting bigger so do their expenses and they couldn’t make it with David’s salary; for the rest, they lived in a pretty big house, where they could have family reunions in the holydays like Christmas or spring break, and they would have a good time together. Their house was located just