Two Different Ideas: A Certain Way Mother Was Different Than Mommy

Mothers are pictured as the care giver of the families and the ones who love their children unconditionally no matter the situation. They’ll do anything to support their family and raise their children right. In “The Queen of Mold” by Ruth Reichl, the mother in the story is pictured as the one who makes a meal almost out of nothing, just to provide and have something on the table for her family. Even though the food she cooks is moldy, this is how she demonstrates her motherly love.. In “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the mother is portrayed at first as an over excited mother waiting for her over achieving daughter Dee. As the story progresses the excitement for the daughter starts to go away and her motherly love towards Dee becomes complicated because Dee thinks she is greater and much smarter than the rest. Both of the stories depict complex motherhood, in Reichl story her mother’s love becomes complicated when she cooks food for the guest and her daughter tries to save the guest from being killed, while by the end of Walker story she only has love for the one daughter that has always been by her side and that’s Maggie.

In “Momma” by Chrystal Meeker, the speaker offers a glimpse into the poverty stricken life of a struggling mother and her children. In this poem, the youngest daughter looks back on her childhood and reflects on her mother’s selflessness and willingness to put her children’s needs ahead of her own and the fact that her mother’s sacrifice often goes unnoticed.

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.

So having the “Mother” title shows that she is not of any importance because she is a woman and women didn’t have titles, she was just simply referred to as mother and nothing else. The short story takes off when “Mother” asks Father why men are digging. When father pays her no attention, she becomes angry and states “Look here,

Robert Munsch uses the mother to indicate the love one has for a child. As a toddler we do very destructive things, and a mother still cares for their child . In this

Brooks’ “The Mother” focuses on the burden a mother goes through when having an abortion and giving recognition to the unborn child. Gwendolyn Brooks achieves this by primarily using underlying emotions and providing imagery of what the aborted baby could have been like as the speaker’s child. The narrative voice of “The Mother” uses different point of views throughout the poem and the word choice, both of which are used to portray the burden of guilt of having the operation.

In stanza one, the narrator doesn’t name the woman ‘mother’, but simply refers to her as ‘woman’ ‘’softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;’’ It seems like at the start of the poem, the memory is still distant and unclear. The word ‘softly’ helps to contain the gentle atmosphere; it is quite a calming adverb. ‘’Taking me back down the vista of years’’- here the memory begins coming back, and he seems powerless to prevent this. ‘’A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings’’- the line mentions ‘a child’, the narrator is referring to

In a world in which abortion is considered either a woman's right or a sin against God, the poem "The Mother" by Gwendolyn Brooks gives a voice to a mother lamenting her aborted children through three stanzas in which a warning is given to mothers, an admission of guilt is made, and an apology to the dead is given. The poet-speaker, the mother, as part of her memory addresses the children that she "got that [she] did not get" (2). The shift in voice from stanza to stanza allows Brooks to capture the grief associated with an abortion by not condemning her actions, nor excusing them; she merely grieves for what might have been. The narrator's longing and regret over the children she will never have is highlighted by the change in tone

There are a few things that can be looked at in depth in this poem that help create that image: the style and structure, the mothers’ interpretation of womanhood, the word selection, and the relationship

The poet addresses only males demonstrating the male dominated society in which the poem is written. The intentions of the poet are to bring awareness to the cruel treatment of children, and in hopes of doing so she addresses those who are in positions of authority; presumably males. The role of the mother in the poem exemplifies the differences between the roles of females and males in society. The children are seeking comfort and "are leaning their young heads against their mothers/ And that cannot stop their tears"(3-4). Rather than approaching their fathers, the children automatically run to their nurturing mothers when they need comfort for females are associated with the private sphere of society. In the poem Browning suggests that even the comfort of a mother is not enough to surpass the merciless treatment of children for the role of females in society is not valued in comparison to the authoritative role of males.

“the mother” was written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945 who was born in topeka Kansas on June 7, 1917. “the mother” was published in her 1945 collection “A Street in Bronzeville”, in 1950 Brooks became the first African American to win a Pulitzer Prize.(bio) “the mother” is a great description of a mother going through a time of remembering her wrongs and pondering on what could have been. The poem “the mother” is a anti-abortion poem, it is a emotional outpour of the sense of guilt by a mother who has regrets, she speaks of mothers who have had abortions and how they will never forget. The title “the mother” is not capitalized so it makes it feel as if the writer is making the mother less important or not important at all.

In search for our Mother Garden by Alice Walker talks about motherhood. Mother ran away from home to marry her husband when she was 17 years old. She had five children. She worked from day to night. Mother and grandmother are the ones who hands their children the creative spark, the seed of the flowers from their gardens. Mother made a garden and planted vegetables and fruit. There was never a moment for her to sit down. “ Whatever she planted grew as if by magic, and her arms as a grower of flowers spread over 3 counties (Walker. 525).” If the located “anonymous” black women from Alabama, Mother would turn out to be one the their grandmother, an artist who left mark in the only material she can afford. Mothers and grandmothers have more often

"The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a sorrowful, distressing poem about a mother who has experienced numerous abortions. While reading the poem, you can feel the pain, heartache, distress and grief she is feeling. She is both remorseful and regretful; nevertheless, she explains that she had no other alternative. It is a sentimental and heart wrenching poem where she talks about not being able to experience or do things with the children that she aborted -- things that people who have children often take for granted. Perhaps this poem is a reflection of what many women in society are feeling.

The first stanza of the poem the speaker starts out using the word “you”. By using second person point of view the speaker appears to speak directly to the reader. “You remember the children you got that you did not get” (Brooks 2), here the speaker uses the term “children” to refer to her aborted children, which also gives them an identity. Brooks uses throughout the poem the word “children” instead of “fetuses” which gives the speaker the image of motherhood and a person compared to inanimate object. These are the children she has lost. The speaker goes on throughout this stanza to express to the reader all the things “you” will never get to experience with your children because of the decision to have an abortion. “You will never leave them, controlling your luscious sigh, / Return for a snack of them, with gobbling mother-eye” (Brooks 9-10), here the author uses metaphors about food, “snack of them” and “gobbling mother-eye” to illustrate the speakers yearning for motherhood that will never be. This is the only time in the poem other than the title that Brooks will use the word “mother”, all else will be implied that the reader is a mother to

Lucille Clifton is a highly reputed and prolific poet. She is a distinguished Professor of Humanities at St.Mary’s College of Maryland and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Lucille Clifton is known for her depiction of the female experience through the ages. Here in this poem Lucille celebrates a woman’s fertility, she compares the menstrual flow to a river,