The Lost Doll

Carmen was the only child of Roberto and Rosa Soto. She was beautiful, bright and loving child. However she was sick from the day of her birth. At the age of four, she fell sick seriously and passed away. Aching from her child’s loss a few days after the funeral ceremony, Rosa gave away all of the playthings and clothes belonging to Carmen to a priest of another village so that she couldn’t see them time and again. The doctors had told Rosa that she could not bear another child, Roberto knew about it, he was hopeful that they would have another child but it was unlikely to happen. When Carmen was alive , she always carried along with her a little doll, they searched everywhere in the house as well asked the villagers too but they couldn’t find it, so were unable to give it away to the priest.

They soon forgot about the lost doll because Rosa became pregnant, the first anniversary of the death of Carmen, Rosa gave birth to another child. She was named Evangelina, which meant “good news”. As Evangelina grew she looked more and more similar to her sister Carmen however, she was healthy girl. When she was about four, she told her mother that she had been sick a long time ago. She also told her aunt that she had a little, beautiful doll with blue eyes and red dress. She had buried it under a tree in the yard. She requested her mother to dig up the doll. When Rosa dug up the ground, she found the lost doll. She looked surprised, shocked and sick because it was difficult for her to believe. Evangelina also said that when she was sick, the nice man came and helped her to bury that doll under the tree.

The story accounts the supernatural significance regarding its particular focus on the concept of reincarnation. When Evangelina was born and grown up, she looked very much similar to that of Carmen. Her actions, characters, behaviors and other many things were very much similar to Carmen’s. The priest said that God healed Carmen and sent her back in the form of healthy Evangelina. Though Rosa did not believe that her newly born child as the reincarnation of Carmen but she could not reject the mysterious fact towards the end of the story. When Evangelina reported everything about past and about her doll, Rosa was shell shocked and could speak nothing more.