These pages should be handed out before students actually start reading the corresponding part of the novel. Jane the midwife cleverly decides to take the girl in and have her apprenticed to a midwife, providing her with a source of cheap labor for her busy business. The girl, now renamed Beetle, spends the next year in the village learning many of the skills and secrets of the midwifery trade.
This resulted in the establishment of schools and colleges, especially in cathedral cities like Salisbury (which is mentioned in The Midwife's Apprentice). This era in history was born out of the chaos following the fall of the Roman Empire. What role does the midwife play both in the life of Beetle and in the life of the village as a whole.
Either way, the manure pile probably smelled a little worse than everything else in her life—the scraps of food picked up from the kitchen yards, the barns and stables she slept in when she could, and her unwashed, unfed, unloved, unloved body. ". What the Brother thinks the woman in the starched dress looks like when he first meets her. The summer after the arrival of the Beetle, "the world blossoms." What a similar situation is happening at the grandmother's house.
What does Beetle say when the midwife threatens to put him out in the cold and break his knees if Beetle tells anyone what he saw. In The Midwife's Apprentice, names play an important role in the lives of the villagers. The central character - the midwife's apprentice - has many names over the course of the novel.
Chapters 9–11
What examples from the text show that Alice is gaining maturity as well as self-respect. Alyce lit Jane's way through the dark night with a rushing light that hissed and splashed in the fog.” When Matthew Blunt comes to the cottage to ask for Alyce's help with his mother, what does the midwife do.
She punches Matthew in the face for asking for Alyce's help instead of her own. Why does the midwife go to help Lady Agnes have her baby instead of staying with the bailiff's wife. Who does Alyce think she would rather have during her own birth, someone like Will or someone like Jane Sharp.
When Alice finds the little boy and asks him who he is, how does he answer? What is the first thing Alyce does with Runt when she brings him back to the midwife's house. What are the "weird feelings" Alyce feels after she fails to deliver Emma's baby and how does she react to them.
Authors sometimes create interesting plot situations where an event is "geechoed" by another similar event later in the story. This is called parallelism. The two parallel events are similar in many ways, but usually have important differences as well. In The Midwife's Apprentice, the midwife discovers Brat in the dunghill and takes the young girl home.
This is later echoed when Alyce discovers Runt in the cowshed and takes the young boy home with her.
Chapters 12–14
The cat listened attentively, although sometimes he lost patience with the tutelage and began to bite the temptingly moving feather. He will introduce her to one of the workers at the manor so that she can get married. When Alyce wakes up to a rainy morning after running away, what does she whisper to herself.
How does Alice feel when she sees Roger Mustard and Thomas Bellbues in the country fields. At the manor, how many different times and to whom does Alice ask where Edward is. Daily weather conditions, as well as changing seasons, affect the lives of villagers.
The natural world sometimes also reflects the emotional state of some of the characters in Grandma's Apprentice. For example, when in chapter 4 "the world blossomed into flowers," "grandmother's cottage grew into bread." Describe some of the ways in which the natural world influences and reflects the life of the main character, Alyce.
Chapters 15–17
Use all your grandmotherly knowledge and try out some of your own ideas. It is expressed on a literal level, for example, a midwife helps to give birth safely. When Brat first hears Grandma say what Grandma says they are boys.
How does the midwife enter Emma Blunt's cottage after Alyce has given up trying to deliver Emma's baby. What becomes the name of John Dark's inn after Alyce returns to the midwife's house to live. She begins to think the midwife doesn't want Beetle to learn too much about her job.
Students should name some or all of the following descriptive passages (with specific wording from the text): Chapter 1—the smelly dung heap, the first appearance of Brat, the reference to the village boys, the first appearance of the midwife; Chapter 2 - the first appearance of the cat, the reference to Beetle as she moves like a beetle away from the boys, the eel, the almost-drowned cat;. Chapter 3—more about the midwife Jane Sharp, the appearance of spring, the midwife's herbs and other medicinal substances. The midwife says that she goes to the miller to have the oats ground, but she leaves without the oats; she says she is going to deliver comfrey tonic, but she leaves the tonic behind; she says that she is going to feed the
Beetle says she only talks to the cat, and that the cat doesn't care who kisses the midwife. She has promised the midwife not to tell anyone about her affair with the baker, so she has to pretend she doesn't know where the midwife is. She has become a reliable, hard-working worker for the midwife and no longer wanders from one place to another (this shows maturity and stability).
Although the midwife repeatedly shuts him down, both literally and figuratively, Beetle makes it through. work her way' and discover many of the secrets of midwifery. Alyce wonders what the midwife would do and she remembers what Will has done in the gravel pit to help Tansy; she gives Joan care and attention. The midwife is not a mother at all—she holds food, warmth, and love; Alice is a mother and a nurturer—she feeds the boy, cleans him, and tells him that he "is likely to look." Midwife rejects Beetle's new name, refusing to call her Alyce; Alyce rejects the name Runt for the boy and helps him choose his name (Edward).
The midwife keeps Beetle, hoping to get cheap labor out of her; Alyce sends Edward away to the mansion, where she hopes he will have a better life. Autumn also means that apples and berries are ripe, so in Chapter 8 Alyce and the midwife brew cider and wine.
