Week 1 - Post B

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

Dear Kim Edwards,
I am only 20 pages into your novel but so far i am intrigued. I like how for this first chapter you have not said the main characters names yet but you have called them "he" "her" and "the doctor". I am very interested to see what their names are! But anyways, i think it is just horrible what the doctor does. I mean, give away his own daughter who comes out of the womb looking odd? How could any father do something as bad as that? Did you have anything to inspire to you write something like that? When the doctor says, "This poor child will most likely have a serious heart defect. A fatal one. I'm trying to spare us all a terrible grief"(19), does he really mean what he is saying or is he just being a selfish person who does not want to deal with a child dying? If i were the mother, i would want to know about this child. I would for sure not send it away...any loving mother who has carried her child for nine monthes would never do such a thing! But maybe the doctor just wanted not to tell his wife who was already stressed out about the condition she was in. Plus, the baby had a twin who lived. Although i am not very far into this novel, i find it very good! i cannot wait to keep on reading! =]
~claire O'Neill