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A Midwife's Tale

I read A Midwife's Tale The Life of Martha Ballard, by, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich. The theme of this book would be if you put you're mind to something you can succeed in anything. This is a good theme because it really matches who she was because she was a midwife but she started young. Martha Ballard was a good midwife and she liked doing it to help people. The theme in history would be that Martha Ballard was a young and hard working person and was always there when someone needed her. When there was a difficult labor or if there was a family sick she was there. The cultural perspective is that she really had a feeling for helping people even if they were sick and even if she could not do anything for them she was there trying to help for what they should do.

The theme of this book would be if you put you're mind to something you can succeed in anything. The first thing that shows this is that she was always trying to help someone even if there was not much help to give she was there when a family came down with a there trying to help. The second thing would be her going through 816 births even those ones that the mother died or the baby died or both. She was there trying to help as much as she could. The third thing would be that she went through her own births and three of her children's deaths in one year.

The theme in history would be that Martha Ballard was a young and hard working person and was always there when someone needed her. The statement would be that she was a hard worker and was there when someone needed her. When there was a difficult birth going in another place and they needed he she rushed over to help them. When a child came down with a fever she was there trying to help them as much as she could. When there was a death of a mother during child birth she was there for the family. A specific theme in history would be that if you have something holding you back that you want to do you should fight to do what you want to do.

The matter of perspective to the theme would be that being only in her twenties Martha Ballard was a person who had her own life to go for with her kids and her husband but she always found time for her work and her family. First she had nine kids and was still helping those women who were giving birth and needed her. Second she had three of her kids die in one year. Third she had a husband that was 77 and she kept on working and tried to settle there age difference. This is significant because it shows who she really was and what she went through growing up.

So in conclusion even if you have something holding you back you should always go for what you believe in. No matter what you're age is you you can do what ever you put you're mind to. Being only in her twenties, having nine children, having three die in one year and also her husband who was seventy seven years old she never let that come before her work. It is reall important to consider this because she went through alot being only in her twenties and she died very young she is sort of like aa role model.