Summary of Sarah, Plain and Tall

MacLachlan, Patricia. (1985). Sarah, Plain and Tall. America. HarperCollins.

            Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia Maclachlan is a short and sweet novel about family and loneliness. The language simple but strong. She shows her characters’ emotions in every story in the novel. From this novel we will know how the family feels lonely without a mother, because home it’s not home without mom.

            This novel tells a story of one family's miss their mother who had died a few years earlier. Then the father of the family decided to place an ad in the newspaper, looking for a wife. Sarah Wheaton, of Maine, respond the letter and decided to come. The children very excited about writing a letter to Sarah, and she responded separately. Sarah try to come for a month. When she arrives in their home, Caleb and Anna was nervous and excited. They had nervous because they feel worried Sarah would feel lonely.

 When Sarah came, she brought things from the sea, for children and she always talked about the sea. She always painting a sea, but she lost one thing, the colour of the sea. Caleb and anna feel afraid she will leave them and never come anymore. Sarah was in agreement with the family.  She learned a lot of things on the farm and help as a mother. The children were very happy and hope that she will live forever with them. -RahmaTalifta-