Initially, Patty is an intelligent and good hearted girl. However, she is constantly put down by her parents so she longs for parental support. For example, “I wish Patricia would be more particular…would do you just look at that hair?”(5). Patty has an external conflict with her mother, because her mother is giving negative comments about her looks. Also, her mother does not like patty for who she is and just wants her to be exactly like her.
Based on the theme of the story I feel that Maggie has a greater, more genuine appreciation for her heritage. I love how she doesn’t dismiss her family’s roots. I do feel a little sympathy for her because she hasn’t been to school and, unlike her sister; she hasn’t had the experience or opportunity to expand her knowledge. I feel sorry for Maggie because she doesn’t receive respect from her sister. Her sister feels that she doesn’t deserve to inherit the
When Dee finds out that the quilts were already given to her sister, Dee gets furious and believes that she deserves the quilts more than Maggie and that Maggie would not take care of them as well as she would. Poor Maggie says to her mother "She can have them Mama...I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts". Maggie is used to never getting anything. Throughout the entire story, it says that Maggie gives up many things so Dee can have what she needs or wants. Dee is quite ungrateful.
Ans. Zora Neale Hurston's "Sweat" depicts the changes in a dynamic protagonist, Delia Jones. In “Sweat,” the character Delia is the focus as she journeys from timid and abused to a woman with backbone. Delia Jones, a humble, straightforward and painstaking washerwoman, who is oppressed by her own spouse, Sykes. Despite her hard work, Delia is not respected by her abusive, mean husband Sykes.
And the next word out of anybody and I’ll be their mother too” (Bambara 77). Here she shows that she truly is tough and she is not just talk. The girls back away in fear, too intimidated to respond to her challenge. This story is narrated by Squeaky, whose main responsibility in her family is taking care of Raymond, her mentally disabled older brother. She explains that many people insult Raymond, referring to him as her “little brother,” but she tries to hold herself above the taunts (Bambara 75).
She had no confidence in her mother growing up, and saw her as a “limit” and an “embarrassment”. Later in Tan’s life, she found several surveys which led her to realize that she was not alone; there were other Asian-Americans who may have shared the same struggles as her. Tan creates a symbolic diction through the use of words like “broken”, “limited”, and “fractured”. She is very repetitive with her use of these words, although she explains how she hated when people described her mother’s english that way. Although Tan knows that the way her and her mother converse is not grammatically correct, she has grown to love it.
Motherhood Raising a child is not easy especially when a mother is subjected to racial discrimination, poor socioeconomic conditions, daily scrutiny or ethical questions. Two well-known authors, Langston Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks, poetically express some of these struggles that surround the theme of motherhood. Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” reveals that this mother (Mother 1) is a caring individual who has to gently remind her son that “Life…ain’t…no crystal stair” (Pg.1254). Life is not going to be easy for the mother or child, but having the gift and opportunity of life is something that many people take for granted. In contrast, Gwendolyn Brooks’ “the mother” exposes the reality and un-motherly act of abortion.
Both fail to recognize and see each other for who they really are. Hulga/ Joy is bothered daily with her simple-minded mother because she portrays herself as a very kind and patient person towards other people. For example, she gives compliments and tell people that Mrs. Freeman‘s daughters Glynese and Carramae “are the finest girls she knows”, and Mrs. Freeman “is a lady and she would not mind taking anywhere with her.” (51). Mrs. Hopewell is embarrassed with how the way Hulga/Joy behaved and how she would dress inappropriately by wearing worn tattered clothes. Knowing that Hulga/Joy disposition toward those girls was unfavorable and she ignored daughter’s need to be accepted.
She solved the problems that burgomaster gave her, as well as made a game of her marriage with the burgomaster. Finally she outwitted her husband and her husband always consulted her whenever a very difficult case came up. As a woman lived in those times, she conciliated respect with her cleverness. Raimunda is very kind and tolerant. She hated her mother since she thought her mother should respond on that event that her father raped her.
Seemed to me that grandmother has a case of hatred. Hatred is a bad feeling that a person has toward another thing or object, selfish. All the while even though his mother was not at home with him she still should have been teaching him to show respect to all his elders especially to his mother the woman who birthed him in the world. She should have taken a different