" The New Mother " is a short story written by Lucy Clifford and first published in her children's collection of stories, The Anyhow Stories, Moral and Addition in 1882. The story has been reprinted in anthologies including The Dark Descent and rewritten at least once, in Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark .
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Summary
The story revolves around two well-behaved children, living with their mother and their sister in the forest while their father is deep in the sea. One day the children met a strange little girl, who told them that she had a man and a little woman in a box, and would just show them naughty kids. Children go home, and do their best to be naughty even though they love their mother. The mother, sad, told the children that if they did not behave, she would have to go with her baby, and be replaced by a "new mother" with "glass eyes and a wooden tail". When the kids meet the girl, she tells them that they are not naughty enough, and suggests ways to make them more naughty. This cycle repeats three times, in the end the girl tells the children that they will never be naughty enough to see little people and that their mother and baby have gone with dad and that they will never return and that the new mother will come and disappear. At this point, the mother and baby children have also left. Children do not trust the girl and clean the house and wait for their mother to return. Mom just appeared but the kids tried not to let him in. They see that he has glass eyes and a wooden tail. Children run away to the forest and live from berries. Their biological mother never returned and the new mother stayed home.
Neil Gaiman has acknowledged "The New Mother" as one of the two main influences on his 2002 novel Coraline .
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See also
- "The Father-thing"
- Coraline
References
External links
- "The New Mother" at WeirdFictionReview.com.
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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