Reflection of Novel 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 advertisement  in the newspaper, looking for a wife. Sarah Wheaton, of Maine, respond the letter and decided to come. When she came, she brought things from the sea, for children and she always talked about the sea. She 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.

            The cover is really nice, because it shows about mother. This novel explains that a family is’nt complete without a mother. Home is not home without mom. sometimes accept someone new is the solution in a family. Not all the new things that bad in a family.

            Reading this book reminds me a book called semiliar cinta untuk ayah which tells about family without father. Gathered from a variety of different stories but equally discuss a family without a father.

            Anyway, this is an interesting novel to read. This simple tale of belonging and family will inspire readers of all ages.