The Midwife's Parentice Analysis

Why Should The Midwife’s Apprentice Stay on the Reading List ?

Albert Einstein said never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts. Beetle a homeless girl who thought she was a failure but had a dream of becoming a midwife’s apprentice. The Midwife’s Apprentice has been banned elsewhere, but Fayette County High School should keep it because it shows that if you don’t give up you can achieve anything. Like, Beetle a homeless girl who felt she was nothing but, later became someone that mattered.

The Midwife’s Apprentice is about a homeless girl first known as Brat sleeping on a dung heap. She thinks she’s a misfit and later became the midwife’s apprentice a person with a name and a place in the world. “ Beetle soon acquired a new name, the midwife’s apprentice, and a place to sleep that smelled much better than the dung heap, though it was much less warm” (Cushman 5). She worked and in return got food from the midwife. The people in the village started to call her the midwife’s apprentice. She learns to stand up for herself when she went to ask the midwife for her job back. The midwife tells her she wasn’t disappointed that she failed but, because she gave up and ran (Cushman 116).

A high school classroom can relate more and be able to comprehend it. They are more mature and most of them have probably experience some of the thing Beetle experienced. “An older child might understand or relate to some of its content and themes a little better” (Ellen). When Beetle was under the Midwife she found self-confidence, faith, and also learns how to be a midwife (Hayes 22). The Midwife’s Apprentice is designated to kids ages nine through twelve when most of those kids won’t understand the book. More than half the kids haven’t experienced or thought about the contents in The Midwife’s