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    Motherly Love      In the three stories we read by Flannery O’Connor; “The Comforts of Home”, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and “The Enduring Chill”, the major relationship portrayed was between mothers and their hypersensitive sons. While all of the major characters, the sons, were noticeably similar, the lesser characters of the mothers were also very alike in many ways. Many of their views, gestures and outward qualities paralleled throughout the stories. After

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    Sula 30-66 One important theme that I noticed thus far in Sula is the expression of motherly love. So far in the novel, multiple matronly characters have appeared—from Sula’s mom to Nel’s mom—and they each have a different perspective on what they think is best for their children, which in turn, affects their expressions of love. The most shocking expression of this love and its effects thus far occurs when Eva kills her son, Plum. After Plum returns home from fighting in a war, he begins to display

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    Most importantly, the audience witnessed the power of motherly love and the hard decisions some mothers have to make. Specifically, readers was able to see motherly love through the circumstances of slavery. Especially, through the relationship between Sethe and her children. Sethe is a traumatized ex slave and was forced to do many actions that were questionable throughout the story. However, Sethe’s actions were due to her strong motherly love. Sadly, it was due to slavery which forced her to make

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    Motherly Love Mothers are the people who protect us and care for us most in this world. They will do whatever they can for their children. The character of Mama in A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry is no exception to the multitude of mothers that would sacrifice everything for their child. Even in the midst of gaining $10,000 from which Mama can spend however she’d like she sees her family begin to fall apart before her and puts them first when spending any of the money. Mama acts as a leader

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    ​If a child doesn’t love his mother, or even hate, can you image how horrible relationship is. What kind of people get sick of their mother ? Through the writer, Ken Liu’s short story called “ Paper Menagerie”, we’ll get in touch with the change in the relationship between his mother and himself. To put in a nutshell, his father is a American and his mother is “brought” by his father, ken looks upon down his mother so that dislike everything about his mother and his mother’s country. In this story

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    kind can be a mother. That is how Lily Owens from the book, The Secret Life of Bees, realized that she receives motherly love from the women in her life. The theme of motherly love is developed through Kidd’s use of metaphors and symbolism in order to give the message that you can receive maternal love from any woman in your life. We can see this through Lily’s lack and longing for this love and her realizing that she has found her own at the end of the novel. This demonstrates to the reader how you

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    Motherly Love: Toni Morrison Sula In the novel Sula (1973) by Toni Morrison, the concept of motherly love is very prevalent. It also explored the difficult struggle of being a black woman. Morrison shows how black women face a lot of difficulties in their everyday life. In the middle of the novel the author points out the desperate measures the main characters goes through. As the novel continued, Morrison focuses on how the will of black women and how they demonstrate their strength by

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    Motherly Love in Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club A mother’s love for a daughter is an intense feeling; some times it can be very joyful or very painful.  Most mothers just want their daughters to have everything that they didn’t have, they try to give their daughter all their hopes and dreams.  The relationship between a mother and daughter should be one of the greatest relationships a woman can have with another woman. Some time a mother can push a daughter to hard, some mother don’t mean to make their

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    theory, development is important. The same is true for love. Individuals learn to love at birth and then learn to give love as they mature. Early development is a time of motherly love. As individuals grow older and experience early childhood and adolescence, brotherly love, self-love, and love of God are commonly developed. Through maturity, experience, and practice an individual develops a need and desire to find erotic love. Each form of love, as described by Fromm, can relate to a particular stage

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    A Mother’s Love Every day on God’s earth, we see the mother who works 14 hours a day at the department store, just so her child can have proper food on the table. We see the mother who endures countless challenges in life, just so her child can live calmly. We see the mother who works four jobs per day, just to fund her child’s college education, and the mother, whom on her deathbed, only asks that her child be looked after. These are mere examples of motherly love. A mother’s love for her child

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