Sh'khol

In the beginning of this short story, I didn't think that the author could really do much with this story because it didn't seem like it was going anywhere. However, after reading the part in the short story were Tomas had been diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome. As a reader, after reading that in the beginning of the story, I began to wonder about his mother. Whether his mother really wanted him? As a woman being pregnant you know that you are not allowed to drink alcohol, and how that can be very dangerous to the unborn child. So as a reader, you begin to think whether the mother really wanted the child. After learning that Tomas had not only been diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome but he was also deaf, you could only imagine the hardship it had to be on the woman who adopted him. However, at the end of the story for some reason I was expecting a happier ending. I was hoping that her Rebecca and her ex husband would end up together. From the beginning, as a reader I thought it would have a happy ending. I sure wasn't expecting an ending like that.