Analysis Of Prayers For The Stolen

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HOW MOTHERS TAKE CARE OF CHILDREN
After reading the first ten chapters in “Prayers for the Stolen” by Jennifer Clement, I found some interesting details about how mothers take care of their children in the story that connected to my culture. Mother’s love is like a big ocean, every mother has her own ways to express her love. Most of them are good at protecting, taking good care for, and making sacrifices for their children while others are bad because sometimes one just loses control and can’t understand clearly what she just did, such as giving the permission for her underage child to drink alcohol like Ladydi’s mother in the story.
To me, the word “mother” is very sacred and special. Mother is a woman who always protects, takes good care of other people, makes sacrifices for her children no matter what happens. In the story, the main character, Ladydi, was born in a village in which all the beautiful girls were kidnapped and turned into prostitutes. To save them from the human traffickers, all the mothers in the village dressed their girls as boys, using charcoal to draw on their children’s faces so that they looked ugly. They also dug a hole in the backyard to hide all the girls whenever the human traffickers came. Mothers in the story and mothers in my …show more content…

We know that stealing is not good, even if it has little value. “One night as the lights from cars coming in the opposite direction lit up the inside of the vehicle, my mother handed me a small bag of chocolate eggs. Here, I took these for you, she said.” (28) I think, in Laydydi’s mother case, she just wanted her daughter to try the candy which she thought it was good. And you can learn it in the story that how enjoyable Laydydi was at that moment. Every mom in this world wants her children to experience good things in their life. That’s why I don’t see that this little pilfering of Laydydi’s mother is an unacceptable

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