Cry Journal #3

Chapter 9
Phrase:

• Have you a room that you could let?
• Quietly my child, your mother is by you.
• What shall we do in the rain? The winter?
  

Image:

• Crowded rooms.
• The child coughs badly, her brow is hotter than fire.
  

Concept:

• People have been waiting five years for a house.
• Men only make 35 shillings a week.
• Such is the nature of woman.

A phrase repeated throughout Chapter 9 is "Quietly my child, your mother is by you". This phrase shows how much a mother cares for her child through times of distress. This could foreshadow maybe Stephen's sister and her child.

The image of "the child coughs badly, her brow is hotter than fire" is an example of the consequences of chance and poverty, since the sickness of the child is probably caused by not being able to obtain a home for so long, in which the victim has little control over the situation of overcrowded housing.

The concept "such is the nature of woman" explains how woman have to suffer birth, than take care of the child and love it, watch it grow, only to lose it.