Mama finally stands up to Dee and realizes the beauty in Maggie. Mama is a simple woman. She has worked hard her entire life and has done the best to support her family. Although Mama may not agree with Dee, it seems as if she is caught up in Dee’s opinions and behavior. Almost as if she wants to be enough for Dee because she knows she never has been.
Smith’s strengths are her loyalty, tenacity, and work ethics. She will still be anyone that she has placed in her circle and her family. She keeps going despite the hurdles and obstacles. Even though her husband had a lot of money and wanted her to just stay at home and raise the children, she insisted that she work and have her own money. She states that she doesn’t necessarily like working but she likes the fact that she works and can support herself and her children if needed.
Mama resents the education, sophistication, and air of superiority that Dee has acquired over the years. Mama fantasizes about reuniting with Dee on a television talk show and about Dee expressing gratitude to Mama for all Mama has done for her. This brief fantasy reveals the distance between the two and how under appreciated Mama feels. Despite this brief daydream, Mama remains a practical woman with few illusions about how things are. Mama is a single parent raising two daughters.
She loved her unborn child, even if it was killing her. Humility: selflessness. She helped anyone who came to her medical clinic, even if they had no money. Chastity: knowledge or wisdom. She knew what was coming for her and her child and what she had to do.
Character Sketch of Mama In the book Having Our Say, Mama is described as a courageous black woman and a devoted mother. She loves each of her children the way “God loves His children” (Delany, Hearth 70). She never turned anyone away who was in need of a meal. According to her daughters Sadie and Bessie Delany, “She’d stop…and fix them a plate” (Delany, Hearth 66). Mama was a busy woman, but always had time for her children.
Even though we have become more independent, she still does her best to be the best mom she can be. She has always tried to find a balance between working and being a wife and mother, but found that she has always put that first in her life before a career. She is now still working to help put me and my sister through college and will still work to pay for our weddings. Then she will work for her grandchildren. I guess you can say her role in life is to be happy, live comfortably financially and do everything she can to make her family comfortable and happy.
In the book Where the Heart Is by Billie Letts, Novalees mother and Willy jack pretended to love her when they needed things from her. Others, like Sister Husband, showed her what a real family was like. She showed Novalee that even if you just met the person, they can care for you more than your biological family ever could. Forney proved to her that love really does exist and that a family is the people who love and care for you. Novalee made sure that she had a family that would care for her and love her and care for and love Americus, too.
To a child that age, they see their mom as their caregiver. They could even think that is their mom’s job – being next to them and caring for them and loving them. To hear, “I have to find something interesting,” from their mom, I think it is almost impossible for a child not to misunderstand that and blame their mom’s leaving them on
I find her strong because she takes responsibility for hunting the food for supper and making sure her family has all their needs. She’s also very strong because during the games, she allows nothing to stop her from surviving. Including, boys, emotion, and the thought of her family being in danger back home. I can relate to the way she feels because I feel like I’ve overcome a lot of obstacles with not having my parents in my life and having to provide for myself. Like her I had to somewhat grow up without a father figure and become the “mom” of the household.
He portrayed his mother as the wonderful, caring woman that she is. And isn’t that the point? His word got across to the readers that this woman was a force to be reckon with, she didn’t give up and neither did