What is the theme of the short story ” The shroud” by the authors…

Question Answered step-by-step What is the theme of the short story ” The shroud” by the authors… What is the theme of the short story ” The shroud” by the authors Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm? At least six sentences about what the theme could be. The story is below.”There was once a mother who had a little boy of seven years old, who was sohandsome and lovable that no one could look at him without liking him, andshe herself worshipped him above everything in the world. Now it so happened. that he suddenly became ill, and God took him to himself, and for this, the mother could not be comforted and wept both day and night. But soon afterward, when the child had been buried, it appeared by night in the places where it had sat and played during its life, and if the mother wept, it wept also, and, when morning came, it disappeared. As, however, the mother would not stop crying, it came one night, in the little white shroud in which it had been laid in its coffin, and with its wreath of flowers round its head, and stood on the bed at her feet, and said, “Oh, mother, do stop crying, or I shall never fall asleep in my coffin, for my shroud will not dry because of all thy tears which fall upon it.” The mother was afraid when she heard that, and wept no more. The next night the child came again, held a little light in its hand, and said, “Look, mother, my shroud is nearly dry, and I can rest in my grave.” Then the mother gave her sorrow into God’s keeping and bore it quietly and patiently, and the child came no more but slept in its little bed beneath the earth.” Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Page 77 of The Norton Introduction  Arts & Humanities English Literature ENGL 1302 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)