The Memory's Keeper
The Memoy Keeper’s Daughter
Kim Edwards
General info: Kim Edwards was born in on January 1st 1985,in Skaneateles,NY.She graduated from Colgate University and University of Iowa. Her first novel was “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” in 2005.It won the New York Best Sellers award, her writing won many awards. Kim Edwards was also wrote a short story collection,” The Secret Of Fire King” in 1997 and “The Lake Dreams” in 2011.She also taught in the east of Asia with her husband. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” also won the Kentucky Literary Award in 2005.Edwards uses amazing imagery in all of her writing to express the true meaning of each word.
Plot summary: “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” takes place in 1964.David Henry’s wife Norah is in labor during a terrible storm. In his office, him and his nurse have to deliver the baby. Norah was given gas to sedate her through the labor pain. David is stunned when he sees that his wife is giving birth to two babies. The first is a healthy boy, Paul, and the second Phoebe who is not perfectly healthy.
David asks his nurse Caroline to take the baby to the nearest institution because it has a birth defect. David does this to safe his wife from grief, but what he doesn’t know is that the nurse Caroline Gill will raise it herself.
Author’s Purpose: * Imagery-”A few flakes first, in the dull gray late-afternoon sky, and then wind driven-swirls…” * Paradox-”A robe for my sister who lives in New Orleans” * Symbol-“Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable” * Imagery-“It’s a girl”, he said, and cradled her like a football: * Paradox-“I’m so sorry, our little daughter died as she was born” * Imagery-“She curved herself around the box and wedged it into the backseat, where the pink blanket fell softly” * Imagery-“She found him sleeping at his desk, his face was resting on his hands and he breathed with the light cadence of deep sleep” *
Kim Edwards
General info: Kim Edwards was born in on January 1st 1985,in Skaneateles,NY.She graduated from Colgate University and University of Iowa. Her first novel was “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” in 2005.It won the New York Best Sellers award, her writing won many awards. Kim Edwards was also wrote a short story collection,” The Secret Of Fire King” in 1997 and “The Lake Dreams” in 2011.She also taught in the east of Asia with her husband. “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” also won the Kentucky Literary Award in 2005.Edwards uses amazing imagery in all of her writing to express the true meaning of each word.
Plot summary: “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” takes place in 1964.David Henry’s wife Norah is in labor during a terrible storm. In his office, him and his nurse have to deliver the baby. Norah was given gas to sedate her through the labor pain. David is stunned when he sees that his wife is giving birth to two babies. The first is a healthy boy, Paul, and the second Phoebe who is not perfectly healthy.
David asks his nurse Caroline to take the baby to the nearest institution because it has a birth defect. David does this to safe his wife from grief, but what he doesn’t know is that the nurse Caroline Gill will raise it herself.
Author’s Purpose: * Imagery-”A few flakes first, in the dull gray late-afternoon sky, and then wind driven-swirls…” * Paradox-”A robe for my sister who lives in New Orleans” * Symbol-“Bones would last; it was easy for him to put his faith in something so solid and predictable” * Imagery-“It’s a girl”, he said, and cradled her like a football: * Paradox-“I’m so sorry, our little daughter died as she was born” * Imagery-“She curved herself around the box and wedged it into the backseat, where the pink blanket fell softly” * Imagery-“She found him sleeping at his desk, his face was resting on his hands and he breathed with the light cadence of deep sleep” *