The book never gives us this information. It is apparently something small from the way Harriet talks about it.
Aunt Harriet was found dead in the lake and her baby was missing.
She died because she was going against the laws of that society in trying to protect her child.
i will say the babys aunt
We know that Harriet died. The book tells us that she was found in the river, but we don't know if she drowned or she was killed another way and then her body dumped there. The book hints that her death was not by her own hand. We don't know for sure what happened to the child, but it was almost certainly dead before the mother was.
David's mum was extremely outraged and upset with her sister. She told her sister what a terrible and illegal ideas it was, basically kicking her out of the house. David's mum pretty much has the same view-point as his father on the topic of blasphemies.
The mum's baby would be an aunt or an uncle, depending on the gender.
David questions his community's definitions and ethics, including the definition of blasphemy, because his experience has shown him that there is a different way. Sophie is his first encounter with a deviant... and she is cool, and becomes his best friend. He sees how her family is different from his, and he wants that rather than what he has. Then he sees the community destroy that which he has learned to love. There are other examples... his uncle's views about his own difference, and that secrecy is best, his observation of his father's brother when he is captured and he sees him in Waknuk, and his observation of what happens to his aunt and her daughter.
David, Sophie, Joseph Strorm, Elias Strorm, Aunt Harriet, Mary, Rosalind, Michael, anne, Alan Ervin, Uncle Axel, Henry,Rachel,Sealand Womanthat's all i knoww, there must me plenty more.all i know is that their are more than 20 realtives
It's quite possible and probably quite coomon for a new born child to automatically be an auntie. This happens if the babys mother already has an older child, who in turn has had a child of their own. The new born child will be that child's aunt.
Aunt's
Tom Sawyer's aunt was Aunt Polly.
Great aunt.