Mother

In this unit, I will discuss how becoming a mother changed my life. Until the birth of my daughter, I was a carefree teenager. The only thing I had to worry about was getting off work in time to hanging out with my friends. My days consisted of sleeping in, watching Jerry Springer, and talking about boys. My nights were filled with going to the movies or sleepovers with friends. Once my daughter TaKayla entered this world, she became my main focus. My days and nights were now filled with…

In Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son” and in Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” we can see what takes to be a good parent. In these poems, parents realize what parenthood involves and recognize their responsibilities. Their devotion and dedication makes clear the strong love and affection that parents feel towards their children. In Robert Hayden’s “Those winter Sundays” events in the story took place in the past which shows that speaker is recollecting his past experience. Speaker…

needed to be shared. It’s that time of year again where we celebrate the mothers in our lives. Grandmothers, godmothers, aunties, and cousins are usually showered with love in the form of gifts, time, and words. This world would be nothing without moms! And once you lose your mother it feels like your personal world is nothing without her presence. If you’ve lost your mother this blog post is for you. If you haven’t lost your mother, or a maternal figure, yet this blog post is still for you;…

My Angel Mother Abraham Lincoln once said, “All that I am, or hope to be. I owe it to my angel mother.” As a therapist, teacher, decision maker, and judge, mothers take on many roles to accommodate for their children. However, a mother’s duty is not always fulfilled by a biological mother. Sometimes, positive female influences step in and support children lead their lives. In Harper Lee’s To Kill…

Both Grendel and Grendel's Mother are the main story's antagonists. Although Grendel's mom is a woman, she was presented as a "moral enemy," who Beowulf "So must a man do who intends to gain enduring glory in combat. Life doesn't cast him a thought," (1534-1536) and that being said she is equal to a man. I firmly believe Grendel's mother is more refined as an antagonist more so than Grendel. Her anger is attributed to what Beowulf has done to her son, "she pounced upon him and pulled out a…

for a daughter is the one between her and her mother. In the past this relationship was more so to prime and prep the daughter to grow up and become a proper woman and mother. This can be seen in the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid’s where the mother is literally teaching and molding the girl the way the mother thinks a women should be, and the daughter listens obediently. But in the short story, “Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai you see a mother-daughter relationship that resembles more of…

attention how women are thought to play a minor role in life, such as wife, or mother. When in actuality weather you appreciate them or not, these women play huge rolls in life and in our future. Honestly women are stronger than they are thought to be, they help keep the human population going, they help shape the future (raising children), and they help keep everything nice and tidy. The fictional short story “Your Mother Never Worked” by Bonnie Smith-Yackle is about the child of an…

a child has for their mother’s courage is abundantly evident throughout Edna St. Vincent Millay’s, “The Courage That My Mother Had.” Simultaneously, the poem conveys feelings of betrayal. Millay’s poem, through strong associations with equality as strong words, such as “rock” and “granite,” infers the general theme of the poem and the amount of titular courage the poem’s mother possessed. The narrator uses several different types of figurative language to create thoughts and emotions for the…

in stories we see mothers painted in one of two lights, the first being the all American, doting, and loving mother, the second at times unfavorable or cold. Rarely does the reader get the see the character for both their good and bad in blatant truth. In Tillie Olsen’s I Stand Here Ironing the narrator makes herself transparent to the reader and allows us to see her for exactly who she has been throughout her journey of motherhood, flaws and all. In this story, we meet a mother of five who…

If a child is raised in a home with a mother and a father present, they are better provided for economically, emotionally, physically, and intellectually. James Q. Wilson, one of the world’s brightest and most well respected social scientists said, “Almost everyone agrees that children in mother-only homes suffer harmful consequences: the best studies show that these youngsters are more likely than those in mother/father families to be suspended from school, have emotional problems, become…