Sarah, Plain and Tall

Sarah, Plain and Tall

By Patricia MacLauchlan



The novel is set in the Midwestern United States (Kansas) during the late 19th century. Some days was raining for days and the clouds followed. The house was cool, damp, and quiet.
The novel is setting in the spring season where the green grass fields the bloomed with Indian paintbrush, red and orange, and blue eye grass.  

Anna, the voice of the story, is a young girl, she lives on a farm with her Papa “Jacob” who always was wearing overalls with black shoes, his hair is dark, his personality is quite and discrete. Her brother Caleb is a little boy with black hair and big brown eyes who always was wearing dark blue overalls. He has two dogs (Lottie and Nick).   Caleb asked every single day about his mother. Their mother died shortly after giving him birth Sarah is who responds to Jacob’s advertisement in the newspaper about the job of “Wife”. She is tall and plain. She have never been married, she have always love to live by the sea.

The novel it is mainly about a man named Jacob Witting. Whose wife died. He believes that he has to remarry because a "women's role" is missing in his two children's life. He posts an add on the newspaper saying that he needs a wife. Anna and Caleb are both delighted, Caleb more so, at the prospect of a new mother. Letters are sent by the children in order to ask questions and get to know Sarah better. After several letters have passed, it is decided that Sarah will come visit for a one-month trial. Ana, Jacob's ten-year-old daughter, took time to realize that her father had to move on from their deceased mother and remarry

The conflict is when one day Sarah got up early and put on her blue dress. She loaded a bundle of hay on the wagon for Old Bess and Jack. She put her yellow bonnet. Sarah kissed all, even Jacob then she drove away. Anna, Caleb and Jacob felt so sad and lonely asking why Sarah gone. Anna is torn. She loved her mother and she loves Sarah. but,...