Floren The Missing Mother

Tan’s description of this moment truly embodies the bond of parents and children. Waverly’s guilt is overwhelming, and although her mother was only sleeping, she was so worried that she may be losing such an important person in her life. Depictions like these, and others about the women’s lives, make the plot and theme more realistic and relatable for the

Losing a parent is presumably an unthinkable concept for those lucky to have them alive, but sometimes the title of “parent” dies long before a body is placed in the ground. Toi Derricotte author of “Beginning Dialogues” unfortunately had to experience both the death of her mother’s title of “parent”, as well as her literal death. Derricotte’s parents had divorced when she was eighteen, and her father did not seem to play much of a role in her life; she was left to be raised by her mentally abusive mother. Her mother also had a tough road to walk growing up, having to face and deal with brutal issues like racism and bulling. Persevering through those tough times may be the underlining reason behind Derricotte’s mother’s negativity and abuse towards her daughter. Perhaps she just grew a thick skin at a very young age and had never learned how to feel, accept, or administer love. Derricotte’s had said: “She told me all my life she loved me, as if she completely forgot the hundred slights, humiliations, threats, and insinuations. Of course she loved me;

the reader to interpret what may have happened to the mother, and how it affects the relationship

Jane Pittman is born into slavery on a plantation somewhere in Louisiana. Jane is called "Ticey" during her days as a slave and has no parents; her mother died as a result of a beating when Jane was a child, and Jane did not know her father. Until she is around nine, Jane works in the Big House caring for the white children. One

Throughout time, family has been proven to be one of the largest influences on a person’s life. A person’s relationship with their family members completely shapes who they are as a person and creates who that person is going to be in life. The theme of familial life shaping how a person turns out is exemplified throughout three different short stories: “Flavio’s Home” by Gordon Parks, “Being an Other” by Melissa Algranati, and “The Married Woman” by Simone de Beauvoir. These three stories exemplify that being a part of family comes with many responsibilities, whether they are cultural responsibilities or responsibilities that help to keep the family running.

Throughout the narrative, the author shows readers the loyalty of people present in the young woman’s life. Cahalan’s family, in particular, play an incredible role. Cahalan’s mother, father, and boyfriend are continually present, especially as Cahalan faces hardships. This loyalty is seen as Cahalan’s mother and father reunite in order to support the young woman, overcoming the

Which seemed crazy because she was just a girl in a dream. I didn’t even know what she looked like. I had been having the dream for months, but in all that time I had never seen her face, or I couldn’t remember it. All I knew was that I had the same sick feeling inside every time I lost her. She slipped through my fingers, and my stomach dropped right out of me—the way you feel when you’re on a roller coaster and the car takes a big drop.

She connects with them through the descriptions of her childhood, the sadness of motherhood, the first-hand atrocities of slavery that she witnessed, and her terrifying experience of hiding.

One night Chelsea was at home in bed and she had woken up from a dream. Her dream was about her mother being dead and she was hanging on a cross like jesus was. So when she woke she was crying and went looking for her mother. She was walking around the house and she wasn’t in there. So she went outside still crying screaming her mother's name “mother” “mother”.

When one thinks about or describes slavery, it is common for it to be consider as harsh, spiteful, a harmful institution, and a treacherous act that dehumanizes African-Americans. Whenever there are tragic stories to learn more about this type of institution and see what slaves really went through during the Antebellum Era, people mostly find it shown from African-American men with their experiences with slavery. For example, Solomon Northup in 12 Years a Slave, Jim in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Django in Django Unchained, Kunta Kinte in Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and the story of Nat Turner in his courageous Slave Rebellion. These men slaves are known among the media and literature for generations, but what about the women figures in slavery, nevertheless, the mothers whose children are also the property of others? Considering the description of servitude, it is interesting to see how the severe elements of slavery can potentially affect the mother’s mind and threaten motherhood. This is seen and heavily stressed through Toni Morrison’s Gothic Fiction Beloved— an historical novel based on pregnant runaway slave, Margaret Garner — which is a slave narrative that follows the lives of the main characters: Sethe, a former and runaway slave from a plantation called Sweet Home, Denver, her daughter, together with Paul D, a wanderer who is Sethe’s love interest and a former slave from Sweet Home. An important event in this slave narrative that the reader

Josephine woke up and heard people screaming so she came running. Josephine saw the police dragging her mother away . She tried to catch up but there was to many people around screaming and throwing things at her mother for her to get to her mother.When Josephine got to the prison , she saw how beaten and bruised mother from the things that was thrown at her . Josephine’s

Later on in the story her mother gets to explain how to deal with her emotions and shows her compassion with understanding of the horrible things she felt that dinner

“I see a minha mãe standing hand in hand with her little boy, my shoes jamming the pocket of her apron” (Morrison 4). The closed-class word “my” and the indefinite article “a” subtly propounds the emotional and geographic distance between Florens and her mother — a distance that paves our understanding of Florens’ character and the ways in which she is haunted by abandonment and expulsion from her maternal homespace. This early alienation is what shapes Florens’ character. What Florens doesn’t apprehend is that her mother’s choice to exile her is a protective gesture from Senhor D’Ortega’s sexual predation. Her mother is her savior in this scenario: “Because I saw the tall man see you as a human child, not pieces of eight. I knelt before him hoping for a miracle. He said yes. It was not a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human” (195).

This warning is that she will be transformed into a ghost by fear, just as he was by love and rejection. His wish for her is that she will begin to realize her thread of life is torn, loose, and irrelevant. Even though his ghostly condition is substantial, her ghost is more so. He has slipped out of time and become a shadow waiting for her spirit. He was neglected and his hope is for her to feel this pain.

Mama is one of the main characters of the story. She has worked very hard and has committed her