The Memory Keeper's Daughter, authored by Kim Edwards is a poignant story about how Dr. David Henry gives away his new born daughter, who is later named Phoebe, because she is born with Down syndrome. He keeps his son Paul because he is a normal healthy baby. This event happens unbeknownst to his wife Norah. He is able to do all this because he personally delivers the babies with the help of his nurse, Caroline Gill who is secretly in love with him and is willing to do anything for him. David’s
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter is a fiction novel written by Kim Edwards that takes you through the entire lives of a group of troubled, but otherwise regular, people. You enter their world on a snowy, March night in 1964 in Lexington, Kentucky, where characters Dr. David Henry and his wife Norah give birth to their first child, a healthy baby boy named Paul. Several moments after that, they deliver another child, a baby girl named Phoebe whom Henry instantly realizes has Down syndrome. In an attempt
In the novel, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, by Edwards, the protagonist David discovers that his secrets follow him around, waiting to come out. Told in third person point-of-view, the author supports her theme by describing the setting of a world full of lies and deceit, establishing the central conflict of how secrets haunt people and they do not allow people to live freely. This affects the work as a whole because Edward’s purpose is to inform the readers about the power that secrets have in order
replace who they are. The novel, “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter”, effectively displays the theme of caring for and accepting individuals with disabilities. Kim Edwards uses “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter” to display the effect of caring for and accepting individuals with disabilities can have on one’s life.