Return of Martin Guerre

I found the Return of Martin Guerre very interesting. After reading this book I believe in the thought of things never change. They just change in the manor that they are presented. In the book Martin and Bertrande got married. The marriage was arranged by their families and settled with a dowry. I believe in love at first site but to arrange love is another story. Martins issues with fighting with his father, not wanting to farm, disliked working, and believing that he was under a spell made me believe that he could not be a family man and the marriage would not last. Bertrande's family members encouraged her to separate from Martin because of his behavior. Canon law would allow her to marry again after three years. Bertrand never had a chance to leave Martin because Martin decided to leave on his own. His parents prayed for his return as any other parent would. But it was unfortunate that Martin did not return until after his parents were deceased. When a mysterious person who looked similar to Martin came in contact with the family the family believed that it was him. They ignored the fact that he didn't have the mole on his neck, his nose was flatter, his lower lip stuck out further than his upper lip and not to mention he was shorter than before he left. But because he knew details about the family they had no reason to believe that this could be someone else.

(21). Martin lived in an area that had many family members and a huge farm that those family members all had a hand in. Often, because of how Martin acted and felt towards his life, (20 from the family. He simply left the village, his wife, child, and family members behind. Fast forward to nearly a decade later, a man approached the family. He looked similar to Martin Guerre and knew several detailed intimate details about family members, but to an important note, couldn't recall all of the details. Regardless of this, there was no imposter thoughts as of now as the entire village rejoiced and people were happy.. To say a few, he had scars in different places, , he somehow learned how to read and write while away at war, the size of his feet were different than they earlier were, had a darker complexion, a flatter nose, a lower lip that protrudes out farther than his upper lip, and he was considerably shorter and wider than he previously was (68-69). Regardless of these first person accounts he was widely accepted to be Martin and who knew better if this was the real Martin than his wife. After numerous inquiries about how sure she was that this man was the real Martin there was evermore dou