POST #2

                             

If I were to be in the story of  "A Mercy", I think I would have been stronger. Not just, because I am a male, it's because I think I am just a strong person. At the same time, I cannot really say, because I have never been in a situation like that. Florens made some decisions that I do not agree with, like when She assaulted the foundling. That was very unnecessary. Florens just did some things that were very impulsive. I think that I would have have acted different in my current state of mind. If I were to have grown up like Florens did, being separated from my mother, I would have probably made the same decisions that she did. I would have been angry, but grateful at the same time for Jacob Vaark. Even though he was a slave owner, He was a very cool owner, who felt pity and sympathized for orphaned slaves. He was a good man that owned slaves ignorance is bliss. Even though, I was still their slave I would have been very grateful that I was with them.

They were very nice masters, Jacob Vaark and his wife. They did not treat their slave with much disrespect and animosity. It was probably very different for Florens' mother, whom Florens was separated from when she was about 8. Jacob Varrks wife was a very nice woman. When Jacob Vaark passed from the smallpox, I know it had to be devastating, I would have had great pity for her loss. When Rebbekka Vaark came down with the smallpox too, I would have been a little sad, because they were all like a little family honestly. I would have gone to get the blacksmith, the only one who could cure her smallpox with hesitation.

Another thing that I would have done differently I would not have broken the foundlings arm. An unfortunate mistake. I would have tried to find a different way to reprimand the boy. I honestly would have not tried to escape the jurisdiction of the Rebekka Vaark, because she was a very nice person who just like her husband felt pity for orphaned slaves. They were not usual slave masters. They did not beat their slaves for unnecessary purposes. They also bonded, because of the death of Jacob they were like a family.

Most slaves during that time had an ambition to escape and be free, the Vaarks’ were not like that so the slaves that they had loved them. Some of the slaves did not agree with Rebekka ‘s change of plans around the plantation. Some began plotting to escape.

Sorrow wants to take her baby and escape with Florens, as Rebekka is threatening to give her away. Before she leaves, Florens decides to write a message on the walls of her room with a nail. Sadly, she realizes that the blacksmith cannot read and that the house might burn down, meaning that her words will go unread. She regrets not being able to communicate with her mother who separated from her in order to care for her infant boy.