Konopnicka: "Urbanowa"

Urbanowa is a drunk cook in a house and she is constantly breaking the clay cooking pots. She cries a lot every time she sees her son. Her son comes daily and speaks the the narrator-girl. He is a shoe maker's apprentice and is beaten for it. the girl sees it when Urbanowa bathes him. He plays the part of king herrod in a christmas play and Urbanowa sees this as the culmintaion of her life. She used to reference a poets name to gauge the date, but now references her son's play. She makes him put on his costume daily after the play and resite the lines. She dies eventually in front of her son wearing the costume and he is the one to cry now.