TMA Passage Analysis by Tyara Morales

Eisa and George

eshakaib1 — 2025-10-17 13:33:43 UTC

1. The setting takes place outside from the cottage. "Alyce turned back again for the cottage, gathering comfrey leaves and raspberries and the tiny wild strawberries in her skirt she went it."(Cushman 116). We know that the cottage is surrounded by leaves and fresh fruit. This gives us an idea that the climate it warm and toasty.

2. A detail developed in the passage about Alyce is when she keeps trying to become the midwifes apprentice. "Jane Sharp! It is I, Alyce, your apprentice. I have come back. And if you do not let me in, I will try again and again. I can do what you will tell me, and I know how to try and risk and fail and try again and not give up . I will not go away."(Cushman 116-117).

5. A theme that is made in this paragraph is that you should never give up and you should keep trying even though you may fail. "I can do what you will tell me, and I know how to try and risk and fail and try again and not give up . I will not go away."(Cushman 116-117). Alyce is saying that she will never give up and that she will take risks and fail but she still will not give up.

Rish and Matthew

rismendi — 2025-10-17 13:46:14 UTC

"The man spoke to Alyce 'Good miss you be an angel or a saint.'" People in the middle ages were very religious so this quote shows how people are really religious because they think Alyce is a saint or an angel and that's why she can give birth.
"'It be a miracle' they whispered 'We have seen barren woman give birth'". The theme never give up is supported because this woman was barren for the longest time and now just had a baby.

Peter

ppollack1 — 2025-10-17 13:46:40 UTC

"What to do? What do I want? she asked herself." (Cushman, 113). The repetition of words in this passage is "What." Alyce keeps asking herself what she wants in that moment.
"She heard the joyful chatter of birds building their nests in the thatch of the church." (Cushman, 113). A thatch of a church was used back in the Middle Ages which shows the details about the Middle Ages.
"From someone who had no place in the world, she had suddenly become someone with a surfeit of places." (Cushman, 113). The details of the theme in this piece of text is that Alyce finds a place in the world and isn't just known as "Brat" or "Dung Beetle" anymore. She gets a name for herself and people respect her skills as a midwife's apprentice.

Matthew and Rish

2025-10-17 13:46:45 UTC

"The man spoke to Alyce. Good miss, be you an angel or a saint." This is an interesting phrase because it is and was not common for people to go up to someone and call them and angle especially if they were a peasant.

"The female servant asked for a warm cloak for winter." This shows the setting as it tells the reader that it is a cold, winter night.
"No, Ayce repeated. No saint, no angel. Corpus bones, I but delivered a child. You wife never had a stomach worm." This shows that the husband is acting as if Alyce made a baby for them and that she is a saint. Alyce is being modest and telling them that their was a baby all along and that all she did was her job.

Rita and Holly

rihuck — 2025-10-17 13:49:23 UTC

1: Sensory details that identify the setting.

"Lightning lit up the room." -108 This reveals that it is raining and lightning outside.

"As the thunderstorm passed and night prepared to tried to dawn." -109 This reveals that the thunderstorm is now gone and now it is gone.

2: Details that develop the characters.

" 'keep still, all of you, and let me try.' said Alyce" -108 This shows character development because Alyce was very scared to deliver this baby on her own. But now she is going to try and help deliver the baby.

3: Interesting words or phrases, or repetitions of words or sounds.

" None so stupid, said Magister Reese. You are nitwit, said Grommet Smith. Guts and common sense, and Will Russet. You gave up, said the midwife." These awful words kept going through Alyce's head and they all mean that Alyce sucks. This is repetition.

Taym

2025-10-17 13:51:12 UTC

"She heard the joyful chatter of birds building their nests in the thanct of the church, saw the triumph on the face of the midwife as she coaxed a reluctant baby into life" (Cushman 113). Alyce is admiring the setting around her by noticing and identifying what's happening around her. She is describing how the birds are talking, and how the midwife is delivering the baby.
"Alyce smiled. From someone who had no place in the world, she had suddenly become someone with a surfeit of places" (Cushman 113). These details develop the identity of Alyce because she worked hard to get to this point.

Leyla Ilina and Anum

2025-10-17 13:52:27 UTC

5 Leyla- The central idea is Alyce has many new opportunities for her future and a quote that supports it is "As she swung along the village road, Alyce with good feelings tumbling inside of her, and hummed and then tra-la-ed and then sang, as loud and clear as a swan. Some of the words were without meaning, others just sounded right, but some words came deep inside her and told how she felt about life and hope and the road ahead" (Cushman 114-115) This quote supports the central idea because Alyce was searching for belonging throughout the book but Alyce finally realized there's new things coming and many new opportunities for her future and she realized she has much for her planned ahead

Holly and Rita

2025-10-17 13:53:36 UTC

Alyce pours ale on the woman's belly and this shows how things have developed over time on page 108 it says "stopping now and then to pour ale into her" which shows how people did different things in the middle ages like pouring ale instead of using medicines.
The theme or central idea of the passage is not giving up even if you have failed before on page 108 "but I cannot I tried before and failed. You must said herself back to her." this explains how she came over her fears of helping the woman giving birth even though she has failed before.

Ilina, Anum, and Leyla

iraju — 2025-10-17 13:54:07 UTC

Ilina

1. "Not too long after this the Inn which had known simply as John Dark's place, came to be called the Cat and Cheese"(Cushman 114). They move to a place known as John Darks place after they go to the Inn. John Darks place is also known as The Cat and Cheese. This describes how Alyce doesn't know where for sure she is but she knows this name was developed long ago.

"Some words came from deep inside her and told her and told how she felt about life and hope and the road ahead"(Cushman 114-115). This develops Alyce as a character because she is finding out who she is now with these new experiences and challenges she is facing. Alyce and feeling different about life now then at the beginning of the book.

Anum, Ilina, and Leyla

anhussain — 2025-10-17 13:54:43 UTC

Anum- #3 "...came to be called The Cat and the Cheese, marked by a great hanging sign of an orange cat with a morsel of cheese in his paw"(114) is a repetition of words because the words 'cheese' and 'cat' are repeated multiple times.

Anum- #4 -"...the Inn..."(114) is a detail that tells about the middle ages because an 'inn' was like an older version of a hotel but it was for people to stop at for short times when they were traveling.

-"...along the village road..."(114) is a detail that tells about the middle ages because like how we live in neighborhoods nowadays, in the middle ages they lived in villages.

George and Eisa

gpollack2 — 2025-10-17 13:56:49 UTC

3. The redundancy of words are relevant in this book, "I will try again and again." (Cushman 116). The redundancy of these words show Alyce's determination to be a midwife.

4. "It is I, Alyce, your apprentice." (Cushman 116). Now in this time there are usually not apprentices, this is because many people that have businesses hire people to be their employees. Most people don't work for food or for free.