An essay on Rachel Cusk’s article Mothers and teenagers
A teenager’s relationship with her mother can very quickly change. In the begin of the child’s life, the child needs a lot of help, but then when the child grows older it begins to be more independent. That is the development we see in Rachel Cusk’s article Mothers and teenagers: a modern tragedy.
At the beginning of the article, we do not get any interdiction, also known as in medias res. That allows us to decide how the persons should be and what their names could be.
The writer is using a lot of metaphors in the article, as an example “That thing - the laptop- keeps you awake. My relations with that thing is ambivalent at best. Sometimes I feel is has displaced me as the navigator of our lives: it has …show more content…
In the begin, we hear that the mother feels like that the computer has displaced her, and that the mother does not like the feeling of being displaced, but that is how it must be. The writer is also writing about child-killing, both as a metaphor and in reality. That tells us how she feels that mothers are overprotecting their children. Therefore, the writer's intention must be, that as a mother you have to give the child room and time to get hurt and try out numbers of risk-taking things. And by doing that you will, in the end, get a sensible child, as in the text “My daughter has become politicised: at dinner, she talks about feminism, politic, ethics”.
Another thing that is the way the writer is setting up the roles in the family. The mother’s role in the family is to at home, making food, nothing special, therefore, the mother is also mentioned as “she” and with a “status somewhere between servant and family pet” therefore, not an important person. “The fathers are hardworking, clever, successful, cool.” And by that description, he must be the remodel of the family and the head of the
A teenager’s relationship with her mother can very quickly change. In the begin of the child’s life, the child needs a lot of help, but then when the child grows older it begins to be more independent. That is the development we see in Rachel Cusk’s article Mothers and teenagers: a modern tragedy.
At the beginning of the article, we do not get any interdiction, also known as in medias res. That allows us to decide how the persons should be and what their names could be.
The writer is using a lot of metaphors in the article, as an example “That thing - the laptop- keeps you awake. My relations with that thing is ambivalent at best. Sometimes I feel is has displaced me as the navigator of our lives: it has …show more content…
In the begin, we hear that the mother feels like that the computer has displaced her, and that the mother does not like the feeling of being displaced, but that is how it must be. The writer is also writing about child-killing, both as a metaphor and in reality. That tells us how she feels that mothers are overprotecting their children. Therefore, the writer's intention must be, that as a mother you have to give the child room and time to get hurt and try out numbers of risk-taking things. And by doing that you will, in the end, get a sensible child, as in the text “My daughter has become politicised: at dinner, she talks about feminism, politic, ethics”.
Another thing that is the way the writer is setting up the roles in the family. The mother’s role in the family is to at home, making food, nothing special, therefore, the mother is also mentioned as “she” and with a “status somewhere between servant and family pet” therefore, not an important person. “The fathers are hardworking, clever, successful, cool.” And by that description, he must be the remodel of the family and the head of the