Kendall's Comp Blog

The Maiden, The Mother, and the Crone. Lettie, the maiden is only 11 years old. Full of life and potential. She is learning to be strong and growing into her full potential. The part where the narrator holds her hand and is immediately hurt after letting go shows that there is strength within her. The Mother, Ginnie, is knowledgable and powerful, just like the goddess. She is strong and in her peak of life. The Crone, Gran Hempstock, is "older than the moon" and gives off the impression that she knows pretty much everything there is to know.

As a kid, my step grandmother always seemed to be in a sort of pain. Whether that pain was from a minor surgery or a simple headache, she was always in pain. She was a heavy drinker, we knew that- the WHOLE family knew that. I figured she drank to release whatever demos she had inside of her. She was always drunk at family events, going through wine bottle after wine bottle, beer after beer. Her and my grandfather never got along, why they were together, no one really knew. She was "the devils mistress" as my dad used to say. Every story of her that I have stored in my memory bank, is of her being drunk at a family Christmas, or a cousins birthday party. This summer, she passed away of an enlarged heart. It turns out it wasn't the drinking that killed her. It was the copious amounts of pain killers she took along with the drinking. We went upstairs in their house, where we were never aloud as kids, and unladed boxes upon boxes of expired pain killers the she had stored u...