Similarities Between Motherhood And Motherhood

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Motherhood is a compassionate kinship between the mother and her offspring. Becoming a mother can be planned or unplanned depending on the person. Families tend to cherish the new beginning to a little human life. When someone decides to have a new life, it isn’t easy, and not only can some women not get pregnant, but the variation your body endures is amazing. The body goes through many life changing experiences. Some women can gain weight, or have a rollercoaster of emotions due to their hormones. Having a child is a very hard thing, because your whole life changes and it’s not all about you anymore. Children cannot control the family or mothers they have when born, they aren’t able to understand the concept of what is happening with their mothers or families until they are older. In novels, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs and The Awakening by Kate Chopin motherhood is portrayed in many different ways. The two stories differ in my way but both encounter similarities of motherhood in various ways. In the novel, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs the protagonist Linda is a slave girl who has many family values even though at a young age she lost her mother and was left with her brother in her grandmothers care, but was sent to her mother’s mistress who treated her very well she even taught Linda how to read. Linda was unaware that she was a slave until she was six years old. After her mother’s mistress passes away, she is then sent to a relative whose name is Dr. Flint. He is very mean to Linda and she struggles to stay away from the consistency of Dr. Flint trying to engage in a sexual relationship with her. An example of this is when stated in the book by Linda “When he to... ... middle of paper ... ...is that Edna probably had kids because it was the norm, but then knew that her entitling her freedom and affairs weren’t the best for her kids either. I feel like Linda didn’t really want to get married, or have kids, but because it was the normal thing to do in her high class and society. I feel like she wanted to always be a free woman but wasn’t allowed to, but then she just one day decided to do her. In novels, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs and The Awakening by Kate Chopin motherhood is portrayed in many different ways. The two stories differ in my way but both encounter similarities of motherhood in various ways. Both women were both essentially slaves in their own lives, both literally and theoretical. Both women portrayed motherhood by what I think it making a life for their children better, either before or after themselves.

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