Relationship: Mother and children
In this world, there is a lot of relation exist, and relation basically depend on love, affection, care, respect, trust etc. Relation often lie between two or more people who have enough faith on each other; such as, relation between friend, relation between teacher, relation between classmates and such more, yet the best relationship is the relation between mother and children. It is because mother is the door for the children to enter this world. Therefore, it is the duty for children to appreciate their mother about things that she has done for them; and at the same time the mother can also raise their children with respect. In another words, because mother had go through lot of pain when they give birth to children, does not necessarily mean they can abuse the children or raise the children without proper care. Hence, mother and children are both can help each other to live life better with peace and happiness.
In the book of “A Brief Life of Oscar Wao” Diaz Junot talked about Oscar’s family that they each have some sort of difficulties with their mother. Oscar Wao was known as a play boy in his school and he never seemed serious at any girl he plays with. However, eventually he fell in love with a girl from his school and as a result he couldn’t forget missing the girl. On the other hand, Oscar mother does not want him to keep the relationship with that girl. Yet, Oscar life changed dramatically that he does not look to be play boy anymore, because Oscar was seriously loved with her and he wanted to be with her forever. Oscar mother seemed no interest at Oscar love and she also seem like she does not care for her children, but she is really busy with her job and her own life. For instanc...
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...ft her mother because she wanted to be free, Emily is not sure if this was her real identity, or her mother place, and Dorothy, she wants to run away from her mother. They all seemed to be so much free and depend on themselves often by forgetting their mother. Simply, everyone see things differently. If we were to write each of our own book; it would be 7 billion different books. Things the way I see may not be same for others. Hence, I believe by having some trust and helping each other between a mother and a child can live life better with peace and happiness.
Works Cited
Díaz, Junot. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. New York: Riverhead, 2007. Print.
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The Wizard of Oz. Dir. Norman Taurog, Victor Fleming, and George Cukor. Perf. Judy Garland. 1939. DVD.
The children also argue with their mother often. The children think that their mother, with no doubt, will be perfect. They idealize their mothers as angel who will save them from all their problems, which the mothers actually never do. The children get angry at their false hopes and realize that their mothers aren’t going to...
Wizard of Oz, The. Dir. Victor Fleming. Perf. Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, and Ray Bolger. Warner Bros., 1939.
Emily’s mother is just a teenager when she had Emily. She did not have the money or resources to take care of her, so she had to let Emily live with her grandparents for a couple of years before she could get Emily back. When Emily was two, her mother finally got her custody of her, but Emily is not the little girl she remembered. When the mother first had Emily, she described her as a beautiful baby (302), but it changed when Emily became sickly and got scars from chicken pox. The mother said, “When she finally came, I hardly knew her, walking quick and nervous like her father, looking like her father, thin, and dressed in a shoddy red that yellowed her skin and glared at the pockmarks. All the baby loveliness gone. (302)” Nevertheless, the mother is never there for Emily as she grew up. Emily tried to show her mother in different ways that she needed her, but she never seemed to catch the hint. For example, when Emily was two her mother sent her to a nursery school. The teacher of the nursery school was mistreating the children, and instead of telling her mother directly like the other kids told their parents, she told her in different ways. She always had a reason why we should stay home. Momma, you look sick. Momma, I feel sick. Momma, the teachers aren’t there today, they’re sick. Momma, we can’t go, there was a fire there last night. Momma, it’s a holiday
life and looked for a way to gain her freedom. Emily must endure her fathers
The daughter alludes to an idea that her mother was also judged harshly and made to feel ashamed. By the daughters ability to see through her mothers flaws and recognize that she was as wounded as the child was, there is sense of freedom for both when the daughter find her true self. Line such as “your nightmare of weakness,” and I learned from you to define myself through your denials,” present the idea that the mother was never able to defeat those that held her captive or she denied her chance to break free. The daughter moments of personal epiphany is a victory with the mother because it breaks a chain of self-loathing or hatred. There is pride and love for the women they truly were and is to be celebrated for mother and daughter.
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What exactly constitutes a perfect family? Eternal love of parents and siblings? The short stories, “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “I Stand Here Ironing” by Tillie Olsen reveal the intricate relationship between the mother and the daughter. In “Everyday Use”, Walker initiates the story with the narrator waiting for her daughter Dee’s visit. When Dee arrives, she tells her mother that she changes her name to Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo and insists of taking the quilt. The narrator refuses to let Dee take the quilt because the quilt belong to her other daughter, Maggie. In Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing”, the narrator is having a conversation with the teacher of her daughter Emily. As the narrator is ironing, she thinks back over her
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