reading response 2

Thesis:
In his story “The Son of The Wolfman,” Michael Chabon tells the story of a woman and her husband’s struggle with barrenness and the process of bearing the child of a rapist.

Quotes:
1. “Her doctor, whose efforts over the past five years had all been directed toward the opposite end, told her he understood” (Chabon 174).
This quote is from the beginning of the story when the main character Cara initially went to her doctor to have the rapist’s baby aborted. It shows the part of my thesis about the struggle with barrenness because her doctor had for the past few years working with her and her husband to get pregnant.

2. “the faint pink proof of a cross… informed the Reservoir Rapist’s second victim, Cara Glanzman, that she was pregnant” (Chabon 174). This quote is also from the beginning of the story right when Cara found out that she was pregnant. It shows the part of my thesis of her carrying the child of a rapist.

3. “They studied the wolfman’s boy, and he regarded them” (Chabon 201).
This quote is from the end of the story and is right after Cara delivers the son of the rapist and they are looking at him. The quote here also shows the part of the of my thesis about her bearing and delivering the child of the rapist which is more of a joy than a burden because Cara desperately wanted a child.