The Importance of Mothers in All Over but the Shoutin’ by Rick Bragg

Since the beginning of the book it starts off with her brother fighting in the streets, her father drunk wondering through the streets as well as she was in the street with her brother. When Maggie sees her brother, all beat up she tries to talk to him but makes him upset. Jimmie threatens her that he was going to hit her if she did not shut up and as Maggie continued to talk he smacked her. Their father witnessed it and just told him to stop and leave her in the street. if the father acted different towards her brother beating Maggie things would have been different. As a father, how can he just say leave your sister alone in the street. it showed that he did not care about his kids. When they got home and their parents got in an argument leaving the baby there to witness everything happen it showed how they were abusive towards each other it taught their kids to learn and make them

In contrast to the relationships of fathers and sons, mothers and sons have an emotional bonding throughout their lives. Mothers have physical and emotional connections and are always there

Following this initial impression, he uses the next paragraph to reestablish your first impressions, that the father was simply a dying old man, thereby giving you hope that the story will have a resolution to the father son relationship and assuage your own need to have feelings one way or another about the father. But that's not how the story is to go and in the very next paragraph Bragg does it again, revealing the father to be lacking in the most important ways. This once again raises disappointment and betrayal. As Bragg continues this pattern throughout the narrative you begin to grow accustomed to this hurtful pattern, knowing it exists, but stay anyway in hopes that everything will get better if you just stay a little longer.

The Bragg family grew up with virtually nothing. The father left the family a number of times, offering no financial assistance and stealing whatever he could before he left. When he was there, he was usually drunk and physically abusive to the

In His memoir, All Over but the Shoun’, Rick Bragg reflects on his life and all the changes that have taken place. From growing up as a poor white man in Alabama in the 1960s to working for the New York Times Free Press. Not only does he write about where he came from and the struggles that he went through, but he dedicates a section of his memoir called, “The Widow’s Mite” and compares his mother to the Widow, from the New International Version of the Bible, based upon his mother’s religious dedication and self-sacrificing nature.

Mother, Mother Earth Mothers are symbols of care and love in our daily lives. Our mother and the mother before them care and love their children in the same way. Without the care of our mothers, what will we be like? Savages or maniacs; our mothers align us with the right path of life. They provide love for us, they catch us before we fall, they protect us from the greatest danger even if they do not have the ability.

When reviewing the writings of Amy Chua the image of a very stern, no-nonsense mother comes into view. Then there is the exact opposite with the writing of Hanna Rosin who takes a gentler approach to motherhood. While it can be seen from the words of both mothers there is a devotion to their children, in contrast their methods and views of raising children are as different as night and day. We can especially see this when it comes to their opinions of the meaning of success, self-esteem and what it means to raise a happy child.

Once again, we see a female character dependent on her male counterpart for her well being. Lulu is very much a catalyst for the action in the story. Her suffering forces Mann to act, pushes him to use the stolen boat and ultimately seals his fate. The final archetype of women offered in the collection is the role of women as mothers. In “Long Black Song” Sarah is the primary caregiver and is responsible for looking after the house. Her primary concern is her child when Silas throws her from the house. This idea of women as the caregiver is evident in all of the stories. The mother figure in “Big Boy Leaves Home” frets about her son’s well being as the father makes arrangement to get his son to safety. Aunt Sue in “Bright and Morning Star” takes action to protect her son and his comrades. Throughout the stories we see time and time again that the place of the woman is in the private sphere, the home, while the men are far more assertive in the public setting.

Parents are often asked by their kids, which child is their favorite? Most of the time the parent professes that their love is equal. However, in the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the author presents Mama with a conflict between her desire to give the quilts to her elder daughter, Dee, who has become sophisticated and arrogant or her younger daughter, Maggie, who is innocent and crippled socially. They are disagreeing over who should receive these quilts because that hold great prestige due to their age, and ultimately Mama decides to entrust them with Maggie with due to her greater sense of culture and heritage. Walker is trying to explain the importance of humbleness and love for one’s family through the actions of Mama and Maggie.

The role that women/mothers play on their children is very significant because they will always have an impact on the way their child decides his/her values. These roles are dependent on the mother's experiences and own values, and this can be conveyed in various forms, such as actions, or stories/ words of wisdom.

The mother helps give the background to the story and give to the character of Dee and Maggie. The mother shows the sisters’ differences but Walker also shows through the mother her love for

but we may not understand the potential of a mother on her child. Perhaps it’s just too easy to take mothers for granted. We need to change the perception of motherhood and we need to value it

Motherhood holds an important place in many human societies, since it is our children who will surpass us and take on the future. Raising them to be able to face the world is often a role that falls to mothers, making the social constructs surrounding motherhood a hot topic in many different forms of media. Fairy

What makes a great mother so great? To be more specific what characteristics qualify a mother to be the best she can be to her child as they develop throughout their lifespan. Does a mother’s actions reflect the outcome of her child? Are the actions taken by the mother primarily from infancy reflect how the child will develop into adulthood? These are just some of the questions many mothers have when they find out they are expecting. However, many are misinformed when it comes to taking care of their infant after birth. One thing is for certain though, a infant needs nutrients in order to develop. The way these nutrients are given vary by the mother's choice. How these mother’s accomplish the task of

I would still say that there is no doubting the fact that mothers make better parents as they are known to be more balanced, especially in crunch situations. If we were to take a neutral scenario where the financial pressure and the emotional mess of a broken household are absent, women are capable of dealing superbly with the task. Usually, the women are projected as emotional