Medea from the kids perspective

I write to you O mother

It was a normal day; me and my brother woke as normal lying in bed on opposite sides of our room that my mother and father made for us so that we would have a place that we would be happy. My life was perfect I was in a happy family, and I always thought It was cool that my mother was related to sun, the sun was this big thing in the sky that made me happy it was bright and warm and made me feel happy on the inside. I slid out of bed, and my feet touched the cold floor making me jump but that’s just how the floor felt in the morning and then I got used to it. I walked to the door and slipped out and headed to the main room where my mother would sit in her chair and read but when I got there, she was nowhere to be found, and I only found the nurse who took care of me. She looked scared or maybe angry I could not tell but she told us not to go outside. I wanted to say no and run outside but something about the way her face looked made me stop. I ran back up to get my brother who was on his bed messing with the blanket that he loves so very much. We both ran back out of the room back to the nurse but she was not there, we ran to the window to look for her and we saw our mother outside crying and screaming, we walked outside and hear our mother screaming and before we could hug her the nurse rushed us inside and we were told not to go near our mother. I feared what happened so I went to find my father who read in the library so we went there but when we got there, we could not find him and the book he had started about Greek legend was lying ripped on the floor. I wanted to know what happened, but no one would tell me, and my mother would not look at me.

After some time, I learned that my father went to go marry the princess Corinth and I am not sure how I found out I guess the nurse just spilled the news to me. Shortly after my mother and my brother went to the city and our mother ran into our father, I was overjoyed to see him, but I was also mad about why he left us behind to go marry some princess. My father had the nerve to tell my mother that he left her to make us happy, but I was happy our family was full and complete now its broken in half with my father going to get remarried. I was mad, I wanted to scream, I wanted to rip his hair out and run away but I kept all my rage inside and did not let it show I would not want to trouble my mother more than she already was. After that my mother stopped talking to us, I figured she was just upset about my father, but she was acting weirder, like she was planning something, but I did not dare ask her. My mother was always quieter them my father but now I miss her voice, her voice so much.
We were in the city, me, my brother, and our mom, and she told me that this is where we would live without her and she would leave. I never wanted her to do that I wanted to stay with her. She told me and my brother to give a dress and crown to the princess and we, being obedient, took the things and went off. Not long after I would see the woman who would be my mother engulfed in flames being devoured the things we just gave the I was confused maybe sad I did not know what to think now. When someone saw us me and my brother were sent away and told not to come back but that did not prepare me for what came next.

Soon I saw my mother come up to me and my brother and I do not know what happened but I felt a pain that hurt so bad I started to scream a blood wrenching scream that could break pots, it was so loud and my brother did the same thing screaming at the stop of his lungs and then everything went limp and I fell to the floor laying in a pool of blood and fear with my mother over me and the last thing I saw was he face turning away. I do not know why she did that did she not like me? Was I a burden to her? Did she never want kids? Why did she do this to me and my brother? And now I don’t know what to feel I am dead my body is limp and covered in blood and I am not sure what is happening. Mother, if I was a burden to you why did you have me? Why did you care for me so lovingly and then kill me? I always loved you even when you were angry with us. I love you mother, I will never forget what you did to me, but you are still my mother, and I will love you till the end of time.

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