This essay Is an analysis and personal response to "The Whores Child", by Richard Russo

Response to "The Whore's Child" Everyone lives in a world that is created within his or her brain. What we hear and what we see is different for every person; we give meaning to our perception and change it to make it fit to what we expect, and what we need to survive. Often we lie to ourselves and do not see the simple facts of something that happened in order to go on. "The …

…What is even more twisted is that all the bad prayers she prayed to Jesus, who is a good figure, came true. The evil nun died of a horse kicking her, and the school burned down. Since Jesus however was her father figure and her father turned out to be a pimp, it makes sense that those prayers would come true and that her father in an evil way saved her. What an ironic story.