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The Midwife's Apprentice Character Analysis
The book the Midwife's Apprentice would change a child's romanticization of the Medieval Times. I know when I was young I always pictured this time with beautiful princesses and breathtaking landscape. Life in this time seemed like a movie or even not like a real time. But in actuality it was a real time and wasn't as romantic as Disney Movies like to make it seem. In actuality this time period was full of disease, unsanitary conditions, forced marriages, and life without all the common luxuries we are accustomed to. The main Character , Alyce, is an orphan wondering from different villages trying to find food and a home. She enters the unnamed village and burrows into a dung heap to sleep in and stay warm. The people of the village taunt her
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