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Themes of 'A Mother and a Murder'

Some of the themes that helped me to create the story of a mother wrongly accused of murder…..   I needed to look back at the various points in my own life which have prompted me to think about situations where different feelings, particularly joyful ones, had to be brought out during melancholy times. This was required when I had to add information on the joyful past of a character whose current situation was extremely tragic. This was required in order to create a background for a family which was torn apart by the murder of one of its members. This I found rather difficult to do as I had to think from the point of view of the main character who was not only dealing with the loss of her husband but also with the challenges of carrying on without him. I related this to the movie “You’ve Got Mail” where Meg Ryan’s character is forced to carry on after the loss of her mother and her bookshop. I also thought that the story required a backdrop of the family prior to the murder. Fo