Oskar's Mother

Following the death of Mr. Lincoln, one of the toughest things to deal with her son Tad pleads with her not to cry, because if he were to hear his mom crying he also would cry and break his heart. Mrs. Lincoln then calmed herself and hugged held her child (Keckley 183-84). Mrs. Lincoln in the time that she was suppose to be getting consoled put her son first, stopped crying, and put his needs before her own.

herself to not have to ‘suffer’ her mother’s fate. She almost seems to be developing anxiety and

Everyone knows the connection a mother has with her children, it is talked about all the time. Imagine being the mom of someone who is like Rose, who has a mental illness, who is hurt. The hardest thing for a mother is looking at her child and seeing hurt crushes a mom. This can be seen in the story when Rose has a breakdown, which includes her hurting her mother, because her mom stepped in to try to stop her from hurting herself. “My mother put her arms around Roses waist and tried to hold her back” (4). This is very important becauses Rose is putting her mother,

Through humorous comments, the mother paints a picture of what she is thinking, and allows the audience to see her as she is, and not as the world and those around her perceive her to be. Specifically the mother describes the characters appearance, and actions, as well as offers analogies, such as mothers on T.V. To support her view of reality, or how things really were, in her opinion. As the story progressed, she reveals cultural differences between Mama, Maggie and Dee. Walker also points out the importance of respecting your immediate heritage such as parents, and other family, and truly knowing and internalizing the real meaning of racial

There is no outward display of affection. She “was not a mother/woman.” The children take care of themselves with some help from a nurse.

Both Della and her father cope with their pain in their own way with either drugs or alcohol, but in the end of the short story they are faced with their reality. On page 120, they have one last conversation before her mom dies when her dad says, “even if I am blind drunk and you are dead in a ditch, she is still going,” in regards to their careless acts of drinking or in Della’s case, reckless driving (120). He realizes that no matter what they do to forget what is happening to them, the mom’s death is inevitable. Therefore, instead of pretending and avoiding the situation, they need to come to terms with it. In the end of the story when “[her] father began tucking [her] in for the first time in years,” Della and her dad converse one more time, but they talk about the mom more openly now that she is gone. She asks her dad questions like, “Why did Mommy get cancer?” and or if they were virgins when they got married in an attempt feel closer to her mom. Before, it was hard for Della and her dad to talk about her mom’s illness. When her mom was still alive and her father mentioned when “mommy got sick for the first time. You don’t remember?” and Della replied by saying nothing (120). Comparing how they talked about the mom when she was

She seemed to have been in denial that she has a parent that doesn’t love her and a mother that isn't on earth anymore. She begins to see how her mother didn't actually live a perfect life. She denies the truth about her mother and this quote shows that she really hates herself more for believing she killed her mom and believing she once had a perfect mom. Chapter 13, Page 262 “I looked at the row of seashells on the window ledge, knowing how truly they belonged here even though we were a hundred miles from the ocean.”

In the Grapes of Wrath, the Joad family traveled from Sallisaw, Oklahoma to California in need of a job. Since jobs were scarce in Oklahoma, the Joad family hope to find better jobs in California. Once they got to California, jobs were very hard to find, and living condition were horrible. Although there were many obstacles for the Joad's, Ma was the backbone of the family. Throughout the novel, Ma demonstrates her distinct personality, toughness.

Even as the story begins, she avoids all topics involving her eldest son. At Christmas with her family, she and Conrad was suggested to take a photo together. She practically winced at the idea, and tried to get another picture with someone else. The obvious use of silence by masking made Conrad very upset. If she were to have handled it a different way, possibly by looking at it from the other point of view, this conflict would have ended much more peacefully. Another example is while she and Calvin was at a dinner with friends, she avoided telling them how her other son was doing. When Calvin told them Conrad was seeing a psychiatrist, she became very upset with him. This kind of silence, simply called avoidance, makes actually dealing with the topic harder, because one is so used to pushing it under the rug. If she were to have been honest and talked to someone about how she was feeling with a crucial conversation, she would not have to keep using the silence to keep herself away from feeling what she really

At the beginning of the story, the author introduces the mother as a nuisance and the narrator begins to lie to her, not accept her flaws with the purse, not appreciate her asking how his day is every day, not talking to her a lot and not trusting her with knowing about Heather. The next event was that the narrator tries to lie about meeting with Heather. This shows us about bad communication

Fritz, about to be enlisted into the military and sent on the most dangerous missions as punishment for his father’s supposed crimes about the government, has worries of his own. Yet he always has a smile for Gerta, time to help her, and quick-witted solutions for many of her problems. With brothers like Fritz, it is easy to see why Gerta is willing to risk so much for her family. Gerta’s mother is initially a harder sell—a woman so attached to her home and so afraid of leaving that she is the “reason” half the family is stuck in East Berlin at all. However, Gerta’s actions help her mother question her own previous decisions, and by the end of the novel all the family has each other’s backs. Their support for each other provides stability in a world where it is so easy to be

Mama, however, is strong, spiritual and eager to help her children in any way she can. She values family above and beyond all else, but has the deep insight into the other character's motivations even when she doesn't agree. In the middle of the play (at the fuse for the final conflict), she recognizes that Walter is miserable because no one believes in him and his dreams. She gives him a large chunk of the insurance check to invest in a liquor store even thought she doesn't agree with it. She trusts him with it and, when he loses the money to a "trusted friend," she becomes enraged and begins to physically attack him. However, by the next scene she has forgiven him and tells her daughter that she should do the same; "There is always something to love: when do you think the time is to love somebody the most? It's when he's at his lowest and can't believe in hisself 'cause the world done whipped him so!" With those words, Mama seems to symbolize all that is good, solid and peaceful in the world.

reluctance to admit her father’s death. When he dies, she refuses to let anyone remove his body from their house. It’s as if she feels she needs his comforting and protection.

For Oskar’s grandfather it does create closure. He buries all of his letters to his son and ends his struggle. For him, it is over.

It was a bone chilling January night; my mom received a call at about 11:15 PM, a call that changed my life forever. My Aunt June was on the other line. She was crying so hard my mother could barely understand her. Through the sobbing my mom finally understood that Brian, my cousin, had been in a horrible accident and she didn’t know how bad it was. My mother jumped out of the bed after she hung up the phone. She screamed up the stairs at my sister and me; it was a nerve shrilling scream. I could hear fear in her voice. My mom was always yelling at us growing up if we forgot to do something. She would even get us out of bed to finish something that wasn’t done completely. This particular