Written assignment 5
In 2011 Lezanne Clannachan published her short story “Monster under the Bed”. The text is about a mother demanding too much from her son, and makes the reader think a lot about the subject. How much should children sacrifice for their parents, and what is a “normal” relationship with your parents? A lot of children grow up, in a home environment that is normal to them, not knowing that parents are not supposed to demand so much from their children. However, when the kids grow older, they realize that their friends have a completely different dynamic at home. This short story is about how Eddie realizes this.
The text is about a young man named Eddie. Eddie sits at a station waiting for a train to come home to his mentally …show more content…
11 l. 138-139). He decides to open up to Angie about his problems and tells her about how Eddies mother slowly became more and more scared of the world (p. 11 l. 133-137). Later in the text we read about him slowly becoming less social, after Angie tell him how he could have said no to his mother’s request: “that’s what they all say. Mac and the rest of the gang said the same thing when he stopped football practice. Even Lucy. After everything he told her.” Here we hear how his mother is not only scared for herself, but also on his behalf. She is making him quit his hobbies, abandon his dog and she is the reason for his breakup with his …show more content…
How much can a parent decide for their kids? In this story, Eddie is being controlled way more than a 15-year-old normally does. His mom loves him a lot, but because of her mental state, it makes his life less eventful, and he becomes less social. Eddie clearly has ambivalent feelings towards his mother: “The word “mum” makes an anxious bubble in his stomach. The platform clock tells him that he’s missed her tea. He pictures her on the edge of the sofa, nervous as a bird […]” (p. 9 l. 49-51). You can clearly tell that Eddie does not want to go home to his mother, but feels as he should. He loves his mother very much, and is worried about her getting nervous on his behalf when he doesn’t come home in time. However, he has a lot of responsibilities to her, which makes him not want to see
In 2011 Lezanne Clannachan published her short story “Monster under the Bed”. The text is about a mother demanding too much from her son, and makes the reader think a lot about the subject. How much should children sacrifice for their parents, and what is a “normal” relationship with your parents? A lot of children grow up, in a home environment that is normal to them, not knowing that parents are not supposed to demand so much from their children. However, when the kids grow older, they realize that their friends have a completely different dynamic at home. This short story is about how Eddie realizes this.
The text is about a young man named Eddie. Eddie sits at a station waiting for a train to come home to his mentally …show more content…
11 l. 138-139). He decides to open up to Angie about his problems and tells her about how Eddies mother slowly became more and more scared of the world (p. 11 l. 133-137). Later in the text we read about him slowly becoming less social, after Angie tell him how he could have said no to his mother’s request: “that’s what they all say. Mac and the rest of the gang said the same thing when he stopped football practice. Even Lucy. After everything he told her.” Here we hear how his mother is not only scared for herself, but also on his behalf. She is making him quit his hobbies, abandon his dog and she is the reason for his breakup with his …show more content…
How much can a parent decide for their kids? In this story, Eddie is being controlled way more than a 15-year-old normally does. His mom loves him a lot, but because of her mental state, it makes his life less eventful, and he becomes less social. Eddie clearly has ambivalent feelings towards his mother: “The word “mum” makes an anxious bubble in his stomach. The platform clock tells him that he’s missed her tea. He pictures her on the edge of the sofa, nervous as a bird […]” (p. 9 l. 49-51). You can clearly tell that Eddie does not want to go home to his mother, but feels as he should. He loves his mother very much, and is worried about her getting nervous on his behalf when he doesn’t come home in time. However, he has a lot of responsibilities to her, which makes him not want to see