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    The story follows a young girl who marries a man twenty years her senior just after his first wife died during childbirth. At first, the marriage is practical for both - he needs a wife and she needs stability. The girl experiences pain on her wedding night and grows to miss her husband when he leaves for work. She gives birth prematurely but the baby dies after a week, bringing her closer to her husband through shared grief. A few months later, she becomes pregnant again and bakes bread for her husband, telling him they are out of flour - a sign their marriage has developed love through facing hardships together.

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    The story follows a young girl who marries a man twenty years her senior just after his first wife died during childbirth. At first, the marriage is practical for both - he needs a wife and she needs stability. The girl experiences pain on her wedding night and grows to miss her husband when he leaves for work. She gives birth prematurely but the baby dies after a week, bringing her closer to her husband through shared grief. A few months later, she becomes pregnant again and bakes bread for her husband, telling him they are out of flour - a sign their marriage has developed love through facing hardships together.

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    Summary of Michael Crummey's "Bread"

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    The story follows a young girl who marries a man twenty years her senior just after his first wife died during childbirth. At first, the marriage is practical for both - he needs a wife and she needs stability. The girl experiences pain on her wedding night and grows to miss her husband when he leaves for work. She gives birth prematurely but the baby dies after a week, bringing her closer to her husband through shared grief. A few months later, she becomes pregnant again and bakes bread for her husband, telling him they are out of flour - a sign their marriage has developed love through facing hardships together.

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    Vineel Kaushik Dr.

    Barry Pomeroy ENGL 1310 January 31, 2013 Summary of Michael Crummey's "Bread" Michael Crummey's "Bread" is a story about the life of a young girl who marries a man twenty years older than herself as his second wife just because he is a well settled and a helpful man. The author links the reason for man's second marriage to the incident of death of his first wife during childbirth. The text revolves around the girl and her experiences from the first night of marriage to the second time she got pregnant and how she starts loving her husband. In the text the author describes the state of mind of the girl how she thought that marrying this man was an practical decision. She made it clear to her mind that the man is not expecting much more than a child. The girl explains her experience of the first night after her marriage which she felt out to be painful and her having sick feelings. To this the man gives her consolation that it happens the first time but it gets better. Further the man leaves his pregnant wife alone at home to go to Labrador. In the mean while she dug the garden, baked bread, bottled bake apples for winter and other household chores. She also observed her belly swell while she started to miss her husband. A premature child was born and they named him Angus Maclean who rather died a week later. Both of them shared the grief together and the girl was amazed how she started to have a feeling of love for her husband just by sharing some agony. As time went she got pregnant again in a period of 2 months past the death and she baked bread for her husband. While presenting the bread for her husband she notified him that the flour is finished and he smiles at her and replies that he will pick one that day. This relates to the fact that they both have started loving each other and will continue doing it as they share more and more bags of flour. The author relates the love between the married couple with the bag of flour they ate together and many more they will share. Crummey depicts the conversion of their materialistic reasons for the marriage to the infusion of love in between the two and how it will grow forever.

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