Summary Of Somebody's Mother, By Mary Dow Brine

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Register to read the introduction… The woman is not at all in her thirties, nor did she have kids that were ages five through nine. The woman in the poem would probably be scared if something was thrown at her, like a hard task. But in the end, mother’s are still mother’s. They have kids who they usually love and would do anything they can to not hurt their children, and that’s what the woman in the poem is like. At the end of the day, Somebody’s Mother, By Mary Dow Brine is about an old woman who can’t find the nerve to cross the street. But when a bubbly boy comes to the rescue, she is neither scared nor worried, and she praises God that the boy is “somebody’s son with pride and

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