![]() ![]() ![]() One day, while the girls are in the marketplace, soldiers approach Hannah and Esther and attempt to take Hannah away. ![]() Their friendship blossoms and is a positive relationship for both girls. From that point on, Esther does not have any more nightmares.Įsther soon becomes friends with a girl from the village named Hannah. She finds herself awakening from nightmares almost nightly, crying out in her sleep, “Are you a midwife? I need a midwife!” Mordecai explains to the young girl that it was not her fault that her mother died, and that her father had every intention of being there when the baby was born. Esther’s adjustment after her parents die is quite a challenge. Joanna is especially thrilled to have Esther as her adopted daughter, as she is almost forty years old yet does not have any children of her own. ![]() Esther’s mother sends her to fetch a midwife, and while Esther does her best, by the time she returns with one, her mother and the baby are dead.įortunately for Esther, shortly thereafter, she is adopted by her uncle Mordecai, who was Esther’s father’s brother, and his wife Joanna. Her mother’s death is especially traumatic for Esther, as she dies in childbirth, along with who would have been Esther’s baby brother. At age four, Esther finds herself orphaned as both of her parents die. Wilder’s story uniquely merges historical fact with imagined, well-developed characters. From veteran author Lin Wilder comes the story of the orphaned Jewish girl Esther in The Reluctant Queen: The Story of Esther. ![]()
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