After reading the story about Desiree's baby, I’ve noticed how bad racism was happening at the time. In the beginning of the story, it explains how a toddler was abandoned in front of a big stone house. I was thinking why she was abandoned because it’s sad growing up to remember being abandoned as a toddler. People who are abandoned struggle through their life from the past wanting to know more information of their past as they get older. A guy name Armand Aubigny fell in love with Desiree, it’s lovely to see two people fall in love happily. In the story it mentions about his mother death in Paris but she was buried in France which I didn’t understand why she was buried all the way there. Even though they didn't give much information about …show more content…
So I had a feeling maybe his mom and him ruling slaves affected him in some ways. Slaves were a part of ruling that happened everyday during the old times. It’s sad to see how slaves were taken advantage because of their race African Americans. Her mother Madame Valmonde came to visit Desiree and the baby, her mood changed because she thinks Desiree’s child isn’t her baby. I still didn’t understand what she meant by that, my thoughts were maybe he doesn't look like his parents or maybe she was losing her mind. I assume African American slaves has said something serious to Armand because lately he had visitors of slaves coming to his house that rarely happens from time to time. It had me clueless because his behavior was different towards Desiree and even their own child. It was sad to see how he ended up not loving her anymore. Many thoughts in my mind wondered why he stopped loving her. It shocked me because he ended up ignoring her and never came home. I didn’t like the way he was treating her because she was sad and didn't understand what was going on. As I continued on reading I started to get confused on why she was crying because her child wasn’t