“A Story For Children” by Svava Jakobsdottir originally wrote this story to mention the struggles of what women go through and elaborates the plot of it. This story is written in second person about “she”. The character “she” was a mother of many many children, she tries to put all of her energy and focus on making sure dinner is on the table when her husband comes home. She makes sure that her kids are where they are suppose to be and on time. While she was making dinner she tried to find something to pass the time, lucky there was a magazine lying on the kitchen bench. She didn’t let the pot of potatoes out of her mind while she stood there and read the through Fru Ensom’s advice column. While she was reading she saw a letter that a woman …show more content…
“Mama” he said, when he said this he started to stick a pin in her arm. “Yes dear” she replied, sticking out her arm so he could start stick it too. Her son wanted to his mom to tell him a story and this was how he got her attention the most. The narrator seems to make it sound like the characters children are always hurting her and always want to experiment on her. While telling her son the story she realized that one of her other kids could possibly “suffer from psychological hurt from not getting supper on time”, even though they were cutting off their mom’s toes and sticking her with a with a pin. All of a sudden the rest of her kids come barreling in through the door. The oldest son, Stjani, was leading the group of kids and was carrying a biology book. “Mama, we want to see what a person’s brain looks like.” The narrator then replied “Right now?”- It took a while for Stjani to answer his mom, he continues to look at his brother. He gave his brother a nod as a sign, the younger brother then went and got a rope as Stjani strapped a saw blade to the handle. After getting tied up, the narrator thought about her husband and pictured him standing in front of her while her son had a blade at her head. While she was laying there thinking about her husband, she realizes that there is blood flowing down her head. As Stjani was measuring, with his eyes, to see how big the hole needed to be blood started spurting out and into his eyes. Next thing Stjani sees is his dad standing there looking at them like they’ve gone insane. “Kids! How can you think of doing this when it’s already