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Deborah
Daughter of Dorothy and mother to four children, including Amy, who is born with Down Syndrome. It is Harriet’s privately held opinion that Sarah and her husband William’s quarreling causes Amy to be born with Down Syndrome, foreshadowing Harriet’s belief that Ben’s violent nature was brought on by her own greed for a large, idyllic family life. Sarah expresses frustration that Dorothy provides more assistance to Harriet than to her, despite Amy’s special needs.
Sarah Quotes in The Fifth Child
The The Fifth Child quotes below are all either spoken by Sarah or refer to Sarah . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Pages 3 – 33
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Harriet said to David, privately, that she did not believe was bad luck: Sarah and William’s unhappiness, their quarrelling, had probably attracted the mongol child—yes, yes, of course she knew one shouldn’t call them mongol[…]David disliked this trait of Harriet’s, a fatalism that seemed so at odds with the rest of her. He said he thought this was silly hysterical thinking: Harriet sulked and they had to make up.
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Pages 33 – 74
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The new baby had of course been offered to everyone to hold, when they asked, but it was painful to see how their faces changed confronting this phenomenon. Ben was always quickly handed back. Harriet came into the kitchen one day and heard her sister Sarah say to a cousin, “That Ben gives me the creeps. He’s like a goblin or a dwarf or something. I’d rather have poor Amy any day.”
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Sarah Quotes in The Fifth Child
The The Fifth Child quotes below are all either spoken by Sarah or refer to Sarah . For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Pages 3 – 33
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Harriet said to David, privately, that she did not believe was bad luck: Sarah and William’s unhappiness, their quarrelling, had probably attracted the mongol child—yes, yes, of course she knew one shouldn’t call them mongol[…]David disliked this trait of Harriet’s, a fatalism that seemed so at odds with the rest of her. He said he thought this was silly hysterical thinking: Harriet sulked and they had to make up.
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Pages 33 – 74
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The new baby had of course been offered to everyone to hold, when they asked, but it was painful to see how their faces changed confronting this phenomenon. Ben was always quickly handed back. Harriet came into the kitchen one day and heard her sister Sarah say to a cousin, “That Ben gives me the creeps. He’s like a goblin or a dwarf or something. I’d rather have poor Amy any day.”
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