Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Determined at last to leave him, she announced that she was staying at Haugsetvolden, a farm where they had been visiting. Karl didn't argue--he immediately sold her to the farmer for three hundred kroner, and disappeared for good. Anna stayed at Haugsetvolden the rest of her life, a virtual slave...
...often wondered why I didn't have the courage to leave Big Karl. Many people asked me the same thing. My only answer was that I had been used to being mistreated since the time I was growing up. I didn't know what self-assurance was and had never dared oppose anyone...
PRESSED TO FIND a sense of belonging and security in her bleak existence, Anna seeks it in an ideal of service to others, to virtually anyone. While running with Karl she takes care of seven children deserted by their parents, finding other families for them. She sees a "mission" in simply being...
...well aware, however, that her zeal to help was always to be abused. With Karl she felt like "a tool in his hand, some kind of working machine." But it was not much better on the farm. At Haugsetvolden she was rarely treated as more than a kept-laborer...
Anna lived in a cruel and narrow society, through childhood, with Big Karl, and at Haugsetvolden. She utilized the one option she had available--to work for others, rather than for only herself. And on this alone, she established a sense of meaning in her life...