Question

Write an essay of at least 150 words describing one of the main themes of “A wedding gift” use details from the story to support your answer

Answer 1

In the story "A Wedding Gift" by Guy Maupassant. The wedding gift, the baby, is one of the main themes of the story. Where the baby is presented to Jacque by his former lover who is dying. To which he accepts the child because it is his own, also it was part of the promise he made to it's dying mother. Then also to be presented, later, to Jacque's wife. To which she accepts the child and says "Well, we will bring up the little one.". It is quite unclear to me of whether or not the new born baby was representation of a wedding gift from Jacque's former lover to him, or from Jacque to his wife on their wedding night. Maybe it could simply of been a representation of Jacque's marriage to Berthe being the death of his love for the other woman. To die giving birth to a new love for the life he is going to have with Berthe. Where the new love is represented by the child, and Jacque presents to Berthe his complete and utter devotion to his love with her.

Answer 2

"The Wedding Gift" by Marlen Suyapa Bodden revolves around the life of a woman named Clarissa and her 'wedding gift' slave from her father. And one of the main themes in this story is that of slavery and how discriminatory or inferior the slaves were treated in the South parts of America.

Step-by-step explanation:

Marlen Suyapa Bodden's "The Wedding Gift," tells the story of how a woman named Clarissa and her 'wedding gift slave "Sarah" who turned out to be her half-sister, a product of their father's secret sexual affair with his slave Emmeline. This story delves into the issue of slavery in the American South, the positions of slaves and their hardships and the issue of class/ belonging among different races, and also especially on the 'inferiority' of the female gender compared to the males.

One dominant issue in the story is that of slavery. This is seen in the lives, the different lives of the two sisters Clarissa and Sarah. While Clarissa, as a white woman, is an accepted daughter of Allen and have full access to her father's world, Sarah, on the other hand, is just a small slave girl who is passed on like a piece of property. She was given by Allen to Clarissa as a wedding gift, and when her husband divorced her, she remained a part of Clarissa's 'belongings' that she takes along with her wherever her life leads.