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  2. Maternal mortality in fiction - Wikipedia

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    Then time is altered to where Nagisa survives giving birth and lives a happier life with her husband and daughter. It was later adapted into a film and anime series. In the film adaptation, Nagisa doesn't come back to life. In the video game Jade Empire, Sky's wife dies giving birth to their daughter, Pinmei, years before he meets the player.

  3. Foster (short story) - Wikipedia

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    In 1981 Ireland, County Wexford, a girl is sent to live with foster parents on a farm, while her mother gives birth. She has no notion of when she will return home. In the strangers' house she finds affection she has not known before, and slowly she begins to blossom in their care.

  4. Woman of the Apocalypse - Wikipedia

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    The woman gives birth to a male child who is threatened by a dragon, identified as the Devil and Satan, who intends to devour the child as soon as he is born. When the child is taken to heaven, the woman flees on eagle’s wings into the wilderness at a "place prepared of God" for 1,260 days.

  5. Morella (short story) - Wikipedia

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    The story was loosely adapted as The Haunting of Morella (1990), directed by Jim Wynorski. Along with many other Poe stories, "Morella" was adapted into the Netflix miniseries The Fall of the House of Usher. In this version, Morella becomes bedridden after an accident involving acid sprinklers.

  6. The Birth-Mark - Wikipedia

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    "The Birth-Mark" is a short story by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The tale examines obsession with human perfection. The tale examines obsession with human perfection. It was first published in the March 1843 edition of The Pioneer and later appeared in Mosses from an Old Manse , a collection of Hawthorne's short stories published in 1846.

  7. A Long Petal of the Sea - Wikipedia

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    The Observer praises the skill with which Allende tells a story of "displacement", "a theme sharpened by her own life story". [2] In her review for The New York Times , Paula McLain highlights the themes of this novel: "there is the sense that every human life is an odyssey, and that how and where we connect creates the fabric of our existence ...

  8. Fabula and syuzhet - Wikipedia

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    For example, the film Citizen Kane starts with the main character's death, and then tells his life through flashbacks interspersed with a journalist's present-time investigation of Kane's life. The fabula of the film is the actual story of Kane's life the way it happened in chronological order, while the syuzhet is the way the story is told ...

  9. Theogony - Wikipedia

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    The Theogony (Ancient Greek: Θεογονία, Theogonía, [2] i.e. "the genealogy or birth of the gods" [3]) is a poem by Hesiod (8th–7th century BC) describing the origins and genealogies of the Greek gods, composed c. 730–700 BC. [4]