"Miracles"- The Sun and the Moon

After supper Madame left to the gallery with Annette. Lights began to shine in the windows along the village street and the air was filled with chlorophyll. Small youth groups walked with pin stripped suits. There were no girls among them. The male priest does not allow girls to come out. However he is a good man because he performs miracles. Annette was unwell and weak like the other girls and no medication helped me get better but the priest saved me. And she was cured within minutes. Annette made the sign of a cross before she took the medication. It was a miracle. She was cured.

After Annette told Madame the story they met, Mme Simone in the gallery. They then went to an unacknowledged place where there were a lot of children. Most of the children had freckles and brunettes and it was very rare to have blonde children. They all had blue eyes and had a pale complexion. Over the hillsides there was a huge cross that lit up as darkness fell. A little while later the girls that were not in the small groups appeared sick to Madame, unlike Annette whom thought they looked beautiful. Madame knew it was a dangerous disease and it was catching and spreading on. However Annette did not agree, and denied the ideas of doctors and treatment that was done in the city. Instead with a strong belief she named families that has it and how the male priest prays however when it gets worse, people die.

As Madame finished explaining she brought Luke and told her to explain how it is a dangerous illness. Madame was frustrated and bitter with Annette and Luke due to their ignorance of the illness and the dreadful acceptance of death. The streets seems quite for Madame as if all inhabitants were dead and the imagery of children dead. The male priest was a good man, Madame thought, how he performed miracles however there were no miracles happening in the consumptive houses she thought. The ignorance of the facts stumbled Madame into the darkness within her.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------