Absent And Ill Behaved Mothers

Throughout time mother/daughter relationships have been tattered as woman’s liberation has taken place. Many mothers have the “old fashioned” opinion about what a woman should be. The short story “Girl”, by Jamaica Kincaid, is a prime example of this relationship. The theme in “Girl” strongly suggests that a woman should be domestic and there is a certain way that she

The story unfolds with Mama reflecting on herself and her two daughters, and how much they all differ. Mama is an uneducated, large woman who works with her hands, she is the provider for her family. Throughout the telling of the story the readers see that Mama most identifies with the archetype of the Good Mother, or Earth Mother. The Good Mother is a nurturer who exhibits warmth, protection, selflessness. Mama values her daughters and their shared heritage even if her daughters cannot find value in themselves or where they are from. She has worked hard to provide for her family, give her daughters an education, and please them- especially Dee. When Dee asks

In Junot Diaz’s short story “Wildwood,” many may argue that Lola’s mother Belicia deserved admiration for her subconscious overprotection and love for Lola that she portrays in an uncaring, despicable manner and especially because of her strong, independent fight against breast cancer. However, I think that Lola’s mother was unadmirable due to her lack of support, her weak role as a mother, and primarily because of her constant verbal and physical abuse that she bestowed upon her children.

The mother in the story also proves that people are judging. Through the use of characterization by Edward P Jones’ “The

Few relationships are as deep as those between child and parent. While circumstance and biology can shape the exact nature of the bond, a child’s caretaker is the first to introduce them to the world. And as they grow and begin to branch out, children look to their parents as a model for how to interact with the various new situations. Through allusion, potent imagery, and nostalgic diction, Natasha Trethewey constructs an idolized image of a father guiding their child through life’s challenges only to convey the speaker’s despair when they are faced with their father’s mortality in “Mythmaker.”

Mothers are typically seen as kind, loving, and nurturing, at least in a perfect world, that’s how they are. Rather, in the real world many of us wish that is how all mothers are. Various situations can lead to a woman to be too mothering. It is a factor that transcends real life. This conflict causing dynamic is very prevalent in numerous stories, films, and plays. Two plays where it is shown in significance are Machinal and The Glass Menagerie. In both cases, the actions taken by the mother roles in the shows, resulted in some of the character’s roles ending in unfortunate events of some sort.

Mama, the narrator of this story, is stronger than most men, and soft tempered. There is a quiet sincerity that Mama gets her respect from the reader at the beginning of her story. She loves, forgives, she is independent and frank.

Throughout out Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson, Ruth, the narrator, thinks a lot about her mother who abandoned her and her sister and her aunt who is now trying to be a mother figure for the both of them. Throughout the story Ruth begins to understand that if her mother were still around she would most likely be taking her for granted like many daughters do to their mothers, but she’s not and thinks about what their relationship could have been everyday. Even though her sister Lucille does not look at their aunt Sylvie like a mother, Ruth has an important connection with her. Some days Ruth wants to believe that Sylvie is her mother Helen, but she realizes she never will be, no matter how much she wishes. During the book, the two chapters

Through her novel The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver attempts to convince her readers that motherhood, in all its various forms, is important to the development of children by exploring the maternal relationships of characters. Kingsolver introduces many forms of motherhood, from relation by blood to community bonds. Through the development of the characters in the novel, readers understand the impact that mothers have. The novel explores the effects of motherhood, both to the mothers and their children. The actions and struggles of the various mother figures also persuade the readers to sympathize and relate to motherhood.

In Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem “The Mother”, the author expresses a lot of her thoughts and feelings in order to share her experience. It is written in the first person and the narrator is adopted by the author herself, Gwendolyn Brooks, who embodies a weaken mother. In this poem, Gwendolyn Brooks tries to portray what abortion is for a woman and to describe the harsh truth about how women feel afterwards. Thus, this poem is mostly targeted to aim females and their feelings. First of all, abortion is the deliberate termination of a human pregnancy. First, the narrator uses many imageries, description, and a precise choice of words to explain this emotional topic of abortion. Second, her use

This is an excellent example of when the pressure of meeting our mothers’ expectations do more harm than good to -us- their children. It ended up shaping the narrator’s career, leading to more misery than

The bond between a mother and child is often spoken of as being unlike any other. Yet there are always exceptions to the rule where this connection isn 't as impenetrable as one might assume. This book is an example of this bond gradually becoming weaker over time. It shows how it affects the child, Bone, and leaves her vulnerable to the abuse of her step-father. Bone’s mother, Anney, had fallen in love with a man who abused her which at first, she’s unaware but eventually comes to realize but still chooses to stay with him. Throughout the book there are instances of Anney’s negligence in recognizing her daughter’s abuse and being of aid to her but wasn 't. In having to deal with her

The mother-daughter relationship is often scrutinized, publicized, and capitalized on. Whether from tell-all biographies, to humorous sit-coms, or private therapy sessions, this particular relationship dynamic gives some of the most emotion-activating memories. When female authors reflect and write about their relationships with their mothers, they have a tendency to taint their reflections with the opinions they have as an adult, reviewing the actions of their mother when they were young. These opinions set the tone of the story independently and in conjunction with the relationship itself and manifest in creative literary styles that weave an even more intricate story. Case in point, when reviewing the two literary works “I Stand Here

Jane’s motherly figures in the novel are heavily focused on her child and young adult life, when a real mother would be of most importance, and when Charlotte felt her mother‘s absence the most.

A Mother’s Tale is about the lives of cattle as told by the cattle’s point of view. This point of view is to make the story more empathetic to give the reader an idea of what the cattle see, feel, and experience in their lives. It is told by the Mother cow, who has all of the motherly qualities like patience, humbleness, caring and she is telling the story of her great great grandmother’s great great grandmother’s experience of going to a ‘faraway place’, which is the slaughterhouse, and being the only survivor to come back. She tells the story to her kids and it starts out like a fairy tale story, and ends up much more horrifying. The kids ask more and more questions about the things that happen and the mother is more doubtful to tell the