Marion C. Garretty once said, “Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to the impossible.” This quote by Garretty reveals how powerful a mothers love is as it provides energy for a child for them to do more in life. A mother is a person who brings a child into this world, promising them the best in life. However, despite all the sacrifices and suffering that a mother goes through for a child, the child still feels that there are limitations for them that is separating them from each other. Similarly, in the short story, “Murdering Maman’s Day Boy,” by Emily Raboteau the protagonist Marie Michelle, has difficulty obtaining her mother’s love due to outside forces whom act like a barrier in her life. Likewise, in my life I sensed
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In the short story, Marie’s mother is a Nanny whom takes care of Todd and not only takes care of him but provides him with the love of a mother. As the author states, “I thought about snotty Todd… and his king size bed…and my Maman spooning him soup, tucking him in, signing him lullabies, brushing his hair and hugging him in her big arms” (Raboteau, 23), it reveals that Maries mother seems to be giving Todd a mothers love. After Marie recognizes that what her mother used to do for her, now is being done for Todd making her feel envious and thinks that she lost the feeling of love on the way. Similarly, I had a similar experience where I could connect with Marie and could feel what she felt when another child was so close to her mother. When my younger sister was born, I felt that my mother stopped loving me, and everything is about my younger sister in which she fed her while I was in my room watching TV all by myself. I wanted my mother to recognize that I was around her and I had a desire to hear her lullabies and sleep with her like Marie. Seeing my mother giving me my food in a bowl for me to eat alone, I inferred that maybe I didn’t exist for her like Marie didn’t. As time passed on, we got in habit of being alone without our mother’s attention and …show more content…
In the short story, Marie’s mother not only had a responsibility of being a mother but a Nanny as well whom often forgot that her young daughter wanted to learn. In the short story Marie mentions, “Because of that by, I never did learn to much of my mother’s language… I wasn’t supposed to use Creole around Todd either” (Raboteau, 24). This quote exhibits that like any other child, Marie wanted to learn her mother language. Marie didn’t only want to speak one language but the language where her mother belonged to and what she was taught from a young age but couldn’t because of Todd. Comparably, the spoken language in my house was Punjabi and mother always helped me learn English before my sister was born. She helped me learn and write my name and alphabet so when I went to school I was prepared. However, after my sister was born no one helped me learn and speak English for school. It made it seem like the curiosity in me was fading away as time passed on and I didn’t want to learn
In the short story, Marie’s mother is a Nanny whom takes care of Todd and not only takes care of him but provides him with the love of a mother. As the author states, “I thought about snotty Todd… and his king size bed…and my Maman spooning him soup, tucking him in, signing him lullabies, brushing his hair and hugging him in her big arms” (Raboteau, 23), it reveals that Maries mother seems to be giving Todd a mothers love. After Marie recognizes that what her mother used to do for her, now is being done for Todd making her feel envious and thinks that she lost the feeling of love on the way. Similarly, I had a similar experience where I could connect with Marie and could feel what she felt when another child was so close to her mother. When my younger sister was born, I felt that my mother stopped loving me, and everything is about my younger sister in which she fed her while I was in my room watching TV all by myself. I wanted my mother to recognize that I was around her and I had a desire to hear her lullabies and sleep with her like Marie. Seeing my mother giving me my food in a bowl for me to eat alone, I inferred that maybe I didn’t exist for her like Marie didn’t. As time passed on, we got in habit of being alone without our mother’s attention and …show more content…
In the short story, Marie’s mother not only had a responsibility of being a mother but a Nanny as well whom often forgot that her young daughter wanted to learn. In the short story Marie mentions, “Because of that by, I never did learn to much of my mother’s language… I wasn’t supposed to use Creole around Todd either” (Raboteau, 24). This quote exhibits that like any other child, Marie wanted to learn her mother language. Marie didn’t only want to speak one language but the language where her mother belonged to and what she was taught from a young age but couldn’t because of Todd. Comparably, the spoken language in my house was Punjabi and mother always helped me learn English before my sister was born. She helped me learn and write my name and alphabet so when I went to school I was prepared. However, after my sister was born no one helped me learn and speak English for school. It made it seem like the curiosity in me was fading away as time passed on and I didn’t want to learn