Student+Responses+-+The+Black+Madonna

// Writing Assignment: // // What are your thoughts and feelings after having read this story? Please do not write an "I liked it" or "I didn't like it" type response. Instead, respond to the content of the story itself. What did the story make you think about? What feelings do you have about the events or characters in the story? Did anything confuse you? Is there anything you would like to know more about? //

I realy like these short story; there isn't one event after another, the plot is build on psychological actions. Parkners pretend to be nice, friendly, tolerant, open-minded and free of prejudices, but behind the facade they are the exact opposite. It's a current and interesting topic: transparency of identity! (Linda)

When I read the story I could not understand why Lou and Raymond freely give their baby for adoption. That’s the cause why I was very shocked when I read it and what I didn’t like in the story. But the interpretation of the different characters interests me very much. We can find so much information in the story about these characters, what I like, because the characters in this story tell us a lot about the plot. So I think that the story has its positive as well as its negative sides. (theresa1991)

==== I´m really confused about the end of the story. I can´t understand that a mother give her own child away for adoption. A mother have a special relationship and special feelings to her child, this relationship would build up in the nine months of pregnancy. But the fact that a mother is able to leave her child alone and give it away. I can´t image that I can do this with my child.==== 1272550872

I think the story shows clearly how the way you show yourself to others and way you are differ from each other. Tolerance and accepting ones fortune are often not that easy as you may think. The way the story ends shows us that Lou would not been a good mother anyway so its probably the best result for the baby. 1272553959

I didn´n like this story very much. I don´t like religious stories because religion is interesting me no great. Most religions don´t follow a logical structure or the reality. First that is not so serious, but because religions turn their theory or "stories" always to a serious level, it make me incurious. 1272568996

Reading the story, I didn't think a lot about themes like "how showing himself to others" or the term "facade", on which our first lesson to the new topic based. When we discussed these themes in class, I thought about the story with other aspects. I really liked this discussion in class and think that that was the best lesson, working on the short-stories. During this lession, my view on the plot and comprehension of the connections of the themes changed radical 1272571110

I didn't like this story very much, although it is in a different way really interesting; not the plot itself but the thing with the facade. The story shows the way how many people are living or try to live today. this aspect was for me interesting, but the thing with the child I really don't like. I can not understand why the parents give their child away. yaha1

After reading the story I wondered if it is even possible to be as snobbish as the Parkers. I really hoped for an happy ending, when it didn´t came I was at first disappointed, but then I realized that it was an happy ending, at least for the kid who had not to stay with this kind of people. And at least if this was not a good lesson to the Parkers, I don´t know what else could help them being better persons. (aninha.k.m)

I did not like these short story very much, because I can not understand, that the parents, Lou and Raymond release her own baby in the end to adoption. Particularly the mother, she must have strong feelings for her child. But I like the thing with the facade, because I find it is very interesting to look behind it. (Anika W.)

When I had read the story, I asked myself, was she really so persuaded of her "religion" that she gives her Baby free for an adoption? what was the reason? I think that every mother loves her child even it is black or blue! cause of thath, I think that she have had problems in her childhood. The facades in this book drew the attention of the reader, and I was able to "go in this story". All in all it was an exciting story. 1272825469