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Bucket Of Blood And The Wife's Story

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Do you ever stop to think or realize that you should appreciate where you get your things from? Or if you really know someone? Or even if something is right or wrong? In these relationships, mother between her kids from Bucket of Blood, wife between her husband in The Wife’s story, and one person against a whole village, they all go through these situations. In these stories, it helps readers understand how people and different and how they act towards it. What would you do in their place? Bucket of Blood by Katherine Waugh is about the relationship between mother and her kids. This relationship is important because the mother mother is trying to get her kids to appreciate everything they have and that it’s doesn’t matter where you get anything from. Mother bought a muskrat from an old negro mad with a bucket of blood at his feet. The kids and the father always had much more fascinating stories than mother. She had no stories at the dinner table because she was just a housewife. Her routine is the same everyday. Mother finally gave them a good story for the kids to hear. The kids, deliciously eating what they thought was chicken, …show more content…

Why is this relationship important? It’s important because Tessie is going to be be stoned to death by the whole village for a tradition they do to get food. It’s just one against a whole village. “It isn’t fair, it isn’t right.” Lines 327. What this text evidence mean is that sacrificing someone for food, isn’t right. Tessie doesn’t realize until now that this tradition is unfair. This is important because now that she’s the one that has been chosen to be stoned to death for their tradition, she now knows that it’s wrong. This never probably never crossed Tessie’s mind or else she would’ve thought of this before. The whole village stones Tessie to death. No one really notices how wrong something is until it happens to them or when it’s their

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