Patricia MacLachlans Sarah, Plain and Tall :: Patricia MacLachlan Sarah Plain and Tall

Patricia MacLachlans Sarah, appargonnt and TallBy telling you the story, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Patricia MacLachlan portrays the importance of family and allows you to see that by through a little bit of hope and wishing your gladness can be fulfilled. She shows you how personal sacrifices occur when forming a successful family. Overall, this defy provides insight on how powerful and importeeful family life can be.In Sarah, Plain and Tall the concept of family is the base on which the book is written. The meaning of the word family becomes the center of the Wittings world. You learn at the beginning of the story that Anna and Calebs fuss had died after giving birth to Caleb. So when they both(prenominal) learned that pappa placed an advertisement in the newspaper for a wife and authoritative a response they were very excited. No one spoke when dada finished the letter. He kept looking at it in his hands, variant it oer to himself. Finally, I turned my head a bit to luxate a look at Caleb. He was smiling. I smiled, too (10). Anna and Caleb had no reservations about meeting this lady they only knew by the name of Sarah. They both yearned to have a mother back in their life again. afterward Sarah arrives, Anna is very apprehensive that Sarah will not like being in this new place. I shook my head, turning the white stone over and over in my hand. I wished everything was as perfect as the stone. I wished that Papa and Caleb and I were perfect for Sarah (21). The Wittings soon try to make their class Sarahs home as well. I slept, dreaming a perfect dream. The palm had turned to a sea that gleamed like the sun on glass. And Sarah was smart (37). They soon start to question Sarahs happiness. Sarah often talks about how she longs for the sea, her brother, and her leash old aunts. Sarah speaks to Maggie (who had also responded to a newspaper ad) and tells her about her sorrows. Maggie says, There are always things to miss. No matter where you are (40). Mag gie then shows Sarah how she can relate to her new life by growing her own garden and gaining her freedom back by learning to necessitate the wagon. After learning how to drive the wagon, Sarah decides to take a trip by herself.