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1. “The Tenth Mother” is a short story about Dawn who is considering raising a child through adoption. Not long after she is put together with a child named Douglas. Douglas is a troubled kid who has been left for adoption because his ill mother is unable to care for him. He has been with serval different parents and is now left with Dawn who his eighth adoptive mom. Dawn is pleased and delighted at first, they go kite flying, ride the trains together and spend good quality time with each other. However, one day everything changes when Douglas kills Eartha, a cat that lives with them. Dawn suddenly changes her entire mind. She no longer feels any remorse and is abundantly fatigued with him. She describe him as being the devil and having the same qualities of an allergy. Nevertheless, she tells him that she will care for him and never send him back again, but she is being deceptive with her lies. In the end she sends him back.

2. Dawn is a single woman who works as an administrator at Hatbox Theatre Company. She lives with a cat called Eartha. When Dawn becomes the new mother for Douglas she feels a connection when she says “He does a speedy head swivel to check the others aren’t watching, then tucks his hand in mine. It’s dry, sticky. It hot-wires to my chest.” (L. 81) The fact that Dawn feels this deep connection towards Douglas clearly shows how much she cares for him in the beginning.
They go kite flying, ride trains from west to east London, eat chips and Dawn is finally able to show her motherly side for Douglas.
Its haunting Dawn, how all the other mothers could abandon and let Douglas down, this express itself when she talks with her friend Dilly. ““His posh mum – somewhere in Clapham, I think, I’m not sure – she handed him back when she found out she was pregnant. Can you believe that, Dill? Like he’s a faulty car seat. The

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