Yollie Mrs Moreno Summary

Coming from a lonely and abusive home Mary had to find happiness outside of her house. Her mom made a friend from their church and she happened to have a three month year old baby. Mary always occupied the Richardson’s by helping with baby Alyssa, while also distracting herself from reality. Meeting the Richardson’s ended up being Mary’s worst nightmare. One night the Richardson’s went out and asked Mary and her mother to watch Alyssa.

Next, Mr. Jamison goes up to the Logan house and requests to talk to Papa. Cassie overhears Mama and Papa’s conversation about what Mr. Jamison wants. Thurston Wallace doesn’t want the Logans to destruct his

Maria Moreno: What a creep, to leave his family for his mistress I’ve heard those stories too many times.

Another internal conflict was how she finally found out, in the end, what had happened to her mother. For example:

2. Marisol worked days and Alejandra nights so there was always someone to take care of the kids.

After the death of her husband, Mother struggles to keep her family together by providing the support and guidance they need, and encouraging them to use good judgment and think of the family as a whole before making their decisions. As the family faces various obstacles, each seemingly more severe than the last, Mother begins

begins to grow up a little and realizes she is now seeing her parents otherwise, almost with a new

Daphne finished instructing Mom in everything I needed to “fix” while I changed out of the appallingly mismatched outfit. I hadn’t expected to win the contest, but such a harsh, personal attack left me wishing that I had never even entered. Angry, humiliated, sacred, and upset, I spent most of the two-hour car ride home sobbing. I had put my outfit

Waverly realizes that her mother is only "an old woman... getting a little crabby as she waited patiently for her daughter to invite her in" (Tan 204). Waverly finally tells her mother about her life, especially about Rich, and they begin to get along better. Both must sacrifice a little pride to make the relationship work, but as they both do so, they grow closer and their relationship becomes stronger as a result.

Afterwards, the played dress up. The pretended to go shopping, being Mom and Daughter. However, there was a small argument about who would be Mom. It was not the only tiff they had. There were several, but they always managed to compromise and continue play. They played for about 45 minutes until Isabel’s friend’s mom came to pick her up. They were both very disappointed that it was time for the friend to leave. They asked for sleep over’s but this day was not good. The friend began to cry because she did not want to leave. They pleaded for more time. Both Moms explained they could play another day and that next time Isabel could go over to friend’s house and do manicures. They were very happy with that arrangement.

In the book on page 62, the text states that, “Mrs. Weera and her mother had been talking long and hard while she was asleep. She was glad of that.” This shows that even though her mother was arguing and stressed out she new that it was going to fix some serious problems her mother was going through. She focused on her family, and knew, it was the best thing her family throughout the whole book. Andrew Myers

but she describes how when her daughter was there she was overprotective, although she didn’t see herself that way. She shows this by her treatment of the shoes that symbolise her daughter throughout the story, ‘I locked the wardrobe on those rebellious shoes.’ The mother’s monologue is the entire story, and throughout it she becomes increasingly nervous and irrational. At the very end she goes into what seems to be a mental breakdown, ‘I knew you’d come back, I knew you’d come back to me’, although the daughter has not come home.

Although Twyla and Roberta both struggled with mother issues, they develop different reactions yet similar solutions to their troubles. During her stay at the youth shelter,

The household is a single-family household consisting of the mother a five-year-old sibling. The mother reported because she had to work all the time different family members and friends helped to care for the child throughout the infancy. The mother reported that the child responded well to different people. The mother reported that being a single mother was stressful.

6. For the child in question #5, the family is extremely anxious about involvement with any government program.