Prompt 1
In this Chapter, Ona dies trying to give birth to her and Jurgis' child. Jurgis found some scraggy old midwife to come and help her, and thought that Ona would be okay. But after about a night once Jurgis had come back from the saloon, the midwife told him that it was too late to help Ona and that she should've gotten help sooner.It was very unfortunate that she died, but there wasn't much that could be done for her. Jurgis (at the time) was in jail, so they didn't have much money at all coming in, which would've made it hard to hire a doctor to help Ona before things took such a bad turn. And with Marija's cut hand, she wasn't any help either; so there wasn't a way for them to help Ona. By the time they got some help, it was too late.
Its such a shame that this all happened over a very short time period but I agree there wasn't really anything that could've been done whether or no they would've gotten help earlier.
ReplyDeleteIt was hard for him, but at least it's over with.
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