Introduction:
A mother is a person with the power to bring you into this world, yet a mother sometimes also has the power to take you out of it. Mothers are generally seen all over the world in different lights. A mother could be the person who loves you unconditionally, who choses you right from wrong, who understands what you need and how to help you in times of need. however, not every person to bare the title mother would act the same way. We Need To Talk About Kevin is a story that discusses the assertion that western society still sees motherhood as the ultimate attainment for a woman. Eva is a successful person on many levels, but it is her inability to bond with her son in a conventional way defines her greatly, being perceived as …show more content…
It would be worthy to study how society's portrayal of the all-powerful mother figure, and how that affects the child in question. That helps us to see how different societies would react to different types of mother figures, though these situations, and to see society's portrayal of the all-powerful mother figure, and how that affects the child in question. How in the book "Room" the mother was successful in protecting her child while in "We Need To Talk About Kevin" the mother is seen as a failure and is condemned by …show more content…
Many see it as rewarding, and some see it as a mistake of epic proportions. Through many novels mothers play huge and important factor in a child life, either by bestowing purpose, a new beginning, or a way to self destruct.
Our mothers shape us, who we are, what we will be, and why or how will that change the course of our lives. Shriver's novel shows us a different kind of woman, in a sense non traditional kind that doesn’t want the white picket fence and the children running around the yard, but a life of adventure and self discovery. the character of Eva slowly admits that behind her good intentions of raising a child she intentionally didn't want, hid an intense frustration with her ‘mother’ status, a feeling of having been cheated by society. Eva asks the question of whether the fact of her hidden frustration of not wanting children crept to the surface and made a murder.
Eva struggles with impertinent issues of women’s desire, the place of the mother in the family and society, the natural instinct to love her child no matter what and the parental responsibility in a culture imbued with women’s natural duty of care and the even more chauvinistic belief in the mother’s obligation to love the
A mother is a person with the power to bring you into this world, yet a mother sometimes also has the power to take you out of it. Mothers are generally seen all over the world in different lights. A mother could be the person who loves you unconditionally, who choses you right from wrong, who understands what you need and how to help you in times of need. however, not every person to bare the title mother would act the same way. We Need To Talk About Kevin is a story that discusses the assertion that western society still sees motherhood as the ultimate attainment for a woman. Eva is a successful person on many levels, but it is her inability to bond with her son in a conventional way defines her greatly, being perceived as …show more content…
It would be worthy to study how society's portrayal of the all-powerful mother figure, and how that affects the child in question. That helps us to see how different societies would react to different types of mother figures, though these situations, and to see society's portrayal of the all-powerful mother figure, and how that affects the child in question. How in the book "Room" the mother was successful in protecting her child while in "We Need To Talk About Kevin" the mother is seen as a failure and is condemned by …show more content…
Many see it as rewarding, and some see it as a mistake of epic proportions. Through many novels mothers play huge and important factor in a child life, either by bestowing purpose, a new beginning, or a way to self destruct.
Our mothers shape us, who we are, what we will be, and why or how will that change the course of our lives. Shriver's novel shows us a different kind of woman, in a sense non traditional kind that doesn’t want the white picket fence and the children running around the yard, but a life of adventure and self discovery. the character of Eva slowly admits that behind her good intentions of raising a child she intentionally didn't want, hid an intense frustration with her ‘mother’ status, a feeling of having been cheated by society. Eva asks the question of whether the fact of her hidden frustration of not wanting children crept to the surface and made a murder.
Eva struggles with impertinent issues of women’s desire, the place of the mother in the family and society, the natural instinct to love her child no matter what and the parental responsibility in a culture imbued with women’s natural duty of care and the even more chauvinistic belief in the mother’s obligation to love the