The Farmers Children definitely hit a soft spot with me. My parents are divorced, and my mom's fiance has two boys, 16 and 10. They're not really taking a liking to their father getting remarried and I'm afraid it's really going to hurt my mother. Thankfully, my mother isn't an evil stepmom like the one in this story. I really do feel the farmer's wife excluded Cato and Emerson because they were not her children, which I feel is so wrong. She should have expected the boys would be in her life if she's marrying their father. This story could be read many ways, but I certainly took it as an evil step mom story. I'd be curious to see if I felt this way if I had read the story over a year ago, before my parents were divorced.
I'd also be curious to see if my classmates had divorced parents, and if their views on this story differed from my classmates with parents who are still together.
My parents are divorced, im 15 years old and it still sucks, plus i have an evil step mom or almost step mom or was step mom or NOT MOM AT ALL BUT my dads fionce i just dont know what to call her but i definetly wont associate her with the word mom and the word MY.....i dont like her