David Sedaris informs his readers through a story filled with humor how his life at home truly was with his mother in this story. Throughout this story, he talks about how he and his siblings try and gain their mothers attention through various tasks the children came up with. Life at home seems difficult for Sedaris as his father is not always around and the mother seems to struggle with alcoholism in the story. She does not seem to want anything to do with her children on their days off. Sedaris uses humor throughout his story in an attempt to lighten the heavy mood of the story from the lack of care for the children. The children seem to have to fend for themselves frequently when their mother is busy or does not want to be around them.
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The children have a lighthearted mood about the whole situation when it comes to their joking and humorous tone about the whole ordeal. They children are very forgiving of the act there mother just pulled on them by locking them outside in the cold winter snow. They all came around her and even made a makeshift shoe for her, since she lost her loafer on her way to find the kids. Even though she uses bad parenting skills that she uses her children continue to still love and care about her. The kids at first were extremely mad at her and did not know what to do to be able to get back in the house. They were afraid she would leave them outside to die. According to the children “Selfish mothers wanted the house to themselves, and their children were discovered years later, frozen like mastodons in blocks of ice” (Sedaris 74). They thought she was going to leave them locked outside in the cold, yet at the end of the story they still huddled around her to keep her warm on the walk back to their house. This shows how the children still care about her no matter how mad they happened to be earlier that day. They children even helped her look for her shoe that got lost in the large amount of snow on her way to find them. Two of the children, Gretchen and Lisa, even offered parts of their warm clothing to their mother to use as a shoe. They also did this after she had kicked them out of the house for hours to drink. The children throughout the whole story acted like they were extremely mad at their mother, but ended up easily forgiving her in the
The children have a lighthearted mood about the whole situation when it comes to their joking and humorous tone about the whole ordeal. They children are very forgiving of the act there mother just pulled on them by locking them outside in the cold winter snow. They all came around her and even made a makeshift shoe for her, since she lost her loafer on her way to find the kids. Even though she uses bad parenting skills that she uses her children continue to still love and care about her. The kids at first were extremely mad at her and did not know what to do to be able to get back in the house. They were afraid she would leave them outside to die. According to the children “Selfish mothers wanted the house to themselves, and their children were discovered years later, frozen like mastodons in blocks of ice” (Sedaris 74). They thought she was going to leave them locked outside in the cold, yet at the end of the story they still huddled around her to keep her warm on the walk back to their house. This shows how the children still care about her no matter how mad they happened to be earlier that day. They children even helped her look for her shoe that got lost in the large amount of snow on her way to find them. Two of the children, Gretchen and Lisa, even offered parts of their warm clothing to their mother to use as a shoe. They also did this after she had kicked them out of the house for hours to drink. The children throughout the whole story acted like they were extremely mad at their mother, but ended up easily forgiving her in the