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Short summary of Chapter "BIRTH" :
This chapter is an extract from A.J Cronin's novel "The Citadel" .The novel "BIRTH" describes how a young doctor revives a child that is thrown away as still-born .Joe Morgan his wife are a middle -aged couple . They have been married for 20 years , but have not get any child so far. Now Mrs.Morgan is expecting her first child. Both her husband and her mother are feeling very nervous because the delivery of the child is going to be before time . A young doctor named Andrew is called in .The doctor has to put in hard labour in the delivery of the child . When the child is born , it seems to be still-born . This shock could be too much for the Morgans to bear.
While the doctor is attending to the mother .the nurse places the baby under the bed among dirty newspapers .After assuring himself that the mother is safe,the doctor looks for the baby .Finding it under the bed , he at once pulls it out . It was a boy, perfectly formed . The body was warm but was not breathing . At once the doctor sets to revive the child's breath . After half an hour's terrible effort , he is at last successful . He thanks god and hands the child to the nurse . While going in the street he keeps thinking ,"I have done something ; oh ,God ! I have done something real at last ." The whole description of the child's birth is full of deep pathos .
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