Selfless Acts

What makes a parent? Is it by being one biologically or is it love? When the husband of an adopted child is released from prison for domestic abuse, he learns that his wife signed adoption papers and forged his signature, thereby illegitimating the adoption. The adoptive parents have loved and raised the boy for the last 4 years and are devastated by the courts decision to return the child to the biological parents. By the miraculous grace of God, the biological mother recognizes that, in love, she must once again give up the child to the adoptive parents knowing that her husband would likely cause harm to the child. In Like Dandelion Dust the character I admire the most is Wendy Porter. Wendy earns my idolization by being such a selfless person. She is faced with many tribulations as she is stuck in the midst of putting her own son’s happiness and life before her own. I admire her for the attitude she is able to maintain throughout the story. She had to entrust her son’s precious, innocent life all over again to suited parents that she felt deep in her heart were the best choice for her son. Wendy knew that it would intimately be the most self-sacrificing deed she could ever do. This is why Wendy Porter is my favorite literary character.