Desiree's Baby Summary Assignment
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- Armand meets Désiree for the first time and professes his love for her so they can get married.
- Madame Valmondé visits Désirée and the baby.
- Désiree noticed the babyś skin color is darker than before and freaks out to call Armand.
- It was no wonder, when she stood one day against the stone pillar in whose shadow she had lain asleep, eighteen years before, that Armand Aubigny riding by and seeing her there, had fallen in love with her. That was the way all the Aubignys fell in love, as if struck by a pistol shot.
- Désiree took the baby and left Armand forever
- Madame Valmondé had not seen Désirée and the baby for four weeks. When she reached L’Abri she shuddered at the first sight of it, as she always did. Madame Valmondé bent her portly figure over Désirée and kissed her, holding her an instant tenderly in her arms. Then she turned to the child. “This is not the baby!” she exclaimed, in startled tones. French was the language spoken at Valmondé in those days. “I knew you would be astonished,” laughed Désirée, “at the way he has grown.
- Armand sits in the backyard and reads the letter that told him the shocking truth about his mother.
- Click to Edit DeShe sat in her room, one hot afternoon, in her peignoir, listlessly drawing through her fingers the strands of her long, silky brown hair that hung about her shoulders. The baby, half-naked, lay asleep upon her own great mahogany bed, that was like a sumptuous throne, with its satin-lined half-canopy. One of La Blanche’s little quadroon boys—half-naked too— stood fanning the child slowly with a fan of peacock feathers. “Armand,” she called to him, in a voice which must have stabbed him if he was human. But he did not notice. “Armand,” she said again Then she rose and tottered towards him. “Armand,” she panted once more, clutching his arm, “look at our child. What does it mean? tell me.” He coldly but gently loosened her fingers from about his arm and thrust the hand away from him. “Tell me what it means!” she cried despairingly. “It means,” he answered lightly, “that the child is not white; it means that you are not white.”scription
- Theme : Racisism
- Désirée went in search of her child. Zandrine was pacing the sombre gallery with it. She took the little one from the nurse’s arms with no word of explanation, and descending the steps, walked away, under the live-oak branches. She disappeared among the reeds and willows that grew thick along the banks of the deep, sluggish bayou; and she did not come back again.
- In the centre of the smoothly swept backyard was a great bonfire. Armand Aubigny sat in the wide hallway that commanded a view of the spectacle, and it was he who dealt out to a half dozen negroes the material which kept this fire ablaze. The last thing to go was a tiny bundle of letters; innocent little scribblings that Désirée had sent to him during the days of their espousal. There was the remnant of one back in the drawer from which he took them. But it was not Désirée’s; it was part of an old letter from his mother to his father. He read it.
- The theme was racism. Throughout the whole story, there were constant remarks and reactions caused by the baby's skin color. In fact, at the end, the Father blamed it on the mother. Racism is not ok and it's wrong that it had to be the theme of the story along with all the remarks and reactions caused it.
- Racism
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