Throughout life there are experiences that people encounter that make them grow stronger in their beliefs, their knowledge and overall, their character. The ups and downs that people have to face make them change and hopefully that change is good, and for the better. In Joanne Greenberg's "And Sarah Laughed" the main character, Sarah, finds herself having to cope with a deaf husband, and more tragically a deaf family. Being left with no other option, Sarah has to deal with a fear that will change her life forever.
             Growing up, Sarah, a shy and quiet girl gives her life to Matthew, a hard working, loving, dedicated man who happens to be deaf. For Sarah dealing with a deaf husband is a fear in the beginning. However, throughout their marriage Sarah learns to live with her husband's condition. She adapts to her and her husband's silence, "Matthew talked through his work" (Greenberg 287). Even though Sarah and Matthew's relationship is a silent one, he has never wasted a moment to show his love for her-- "There were times when his tenderness, which was always given without words, seemed to her to make his silence beautiful" (Greenberg 287). Sarah's love and admiration for her husband grows as the years pass. Even though Sarah learned to adapt to her husband's deafness she soon had to learn how to cope with her son's as well.
             Sarah was nothing more than ecstatic in her anticipation for her first baby to be born. She anticipated and couldn't wait for the intimacy that she would be able to share with him, the talks that one day would bring them close, but there were different things in store for her baby Abel. Coming to the realization that her son was also deaf was devastating to her. It was hard enough on Sarah having to cope with the fact that she wouldn't be able to share those precious moments with her son as she had fantasized, but t
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