Theme Of Where The Gods Fly

From the first-time read through, the poem gives a basic understanding of the narrative: a daughter telling the audience about her mother’s struggles

Another characteristic the author exhibits is forgiveness. The struggles her parents cause her display this trait. For instance, Ma constantly neglects Murray as a child. Drugs and alcohol consume the parent’s lives, so Murray and her older sister do not receive the proper care they need. Also, Ma frequently spent her daughter’s money or sold their items without their consent. The readers are astonished when the author says many times that she forgives Ma and just moves on. An important scene in the story occurs when Murray looks back on her childhood and forgives her mom for all of her wrongs, and concludes her mom did the best that she could do. Many people would resent their parents after all the hardships they caused, and so does the author at first. But she finds it in her heart to forgive which shows her kindness and really displays how mature of a person she is.

Reading this story from momma's point of view creates the feeling that one is in the story. The reader can feel and picture every character in the story.

She believes that she did what she had to do, in her circumstance. For whatever motive, whatever reason, she had an abortion. She presumably didn't think it was a crime, because an abortion is a legal act; however, the consciousness of her emotions has made her believe that it is criminal, and she feels guilt-ridden. She tries to pass off her guilt when she says, "Since anyhow you are dead," but quickly rebukes

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

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 first person narration the reader gets Christopher’s factual perspective of his mother. From Christopher’s perspective the reader sees that his mother did not handle his behavioral problems well and was not as patient as Christopher’s father. Mother easily got frustrated with Christopher, this shown when she says, ‘Jesus, Christopher, I am seriously considering putting you in a home’ (pg. 61), as well as when she says, ‘You are going to drive me into an early grave’ (pg. 61). Haddon uses flashbacks to help the reader create the perspective of mother. The flashbacks are seen through Christopher’s perspective, from this the reader begins to develop a perspective of mother, she is shown as uncaring and selfish. The reader feels sympathy for Christopher as he is treated badly by his mother, and consequently the reader forms a dislike towards his mother. Christopher is an unreliable narrator, he finds emotions and motives confusing. Christopher accepts that people are being honestly easily, he does this because he does not lie. An example of this ‘he said she died of a heart attack “and “father said he didn’t know what kind of heart attack she had” (pg.36), Christopher quickly accepts what is father is telling him as the truth. He does not push his father, instead he accepts it as the truth. In the beginning of the novel, the reader is given an image of what mother is like, she comes across as selfish and not caring, perspective of her changes throughout the

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

The author uses direct characterization to show Mama 's attachment to her items that have been passed

She already knows what’s coming but she still does it. She is in charge of her fate. “I will bury him myself, if I die for doing that good.” (line 87-88)

Yet, she is treated poorly by Father and has little autonomy. When Father is gone, Mother finds the buried baby and decides to take responsibility for both it and Sarah, something Father never would have allowed her to do. By recognizing the hardships of others, and then becoming close with Sarah and Coalhouse, Mother simultaneously realizes her own hardships. When Father returns home, Mother stands up for Sarah and Coalhouse and, by extension, herself-the mere act of disagreeing with Father is something Mother never would have done previously. It is through advocating for others, or simply better understanding them, that Mother gains her own

The mother is a complex creature proven throughout the story. These actions all help express why mothers and their presence are so important. As shown, they are very crucial in the development of younger beings. The mother is a helper by nature, impacting by teaching its child to survive at life. Independence is the arch lesson that is taught by the mother. Harlow enduringly grasps the cardinal meaning of why it is inhumane to destroy any kind of maternal bond. Mothers are not people to depend on, but are people to make depending not

The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience.

She realizes ,after her attempt to escape with the children using the bus fails, that in order to save the majority of the children she must sacrifice her own life in place of theirs. Her innocence is stolen all hope is lost of escaping alive. “If she didn’t feel so exhausted, so bankrupt, so utterly spent, she’d be dissolving in panic”(page 163; After the First Death).She would be in panic because she has no hope left of staying alive through this

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