Momma Case Study

The stereotypes of rural Black women are depicted in the seemingly dilapidated state of mama’s old homestead. This is a stereotype of the poor and humble lives of the black subsistence farmers residing in the old South. Although Dee and her friend look down upon their lives, the reality is different. Mama completely owns her own reality and she is proud

I believed Momma was strong during her time with the Powhitetrash children for these three reasons. First, for a women who stands for being bullied have all my respect because for a fact, I know I could not do that. Momma is a women who is the grandmother for these two kids name Marguerite and Bailey. Their father shipped them to their grandmother because their parents decided to end there married. Marguerite nor Bailey know what had happen in their trip, but they know their parents were gone. Marguerite and Bailey ended up calling their grandmother momma. Momma is a strong Christian African women who owns a store for twenty-five years with her son Willie. Second, everybody had respect for Momma except for Powhitetrash children. For being

On this date worker visited the residence of Mr. and Mrs. John Burnette, for the purpose of monitoring Ms. Barbara Washburn current situation. Mr. Burnette greeted worker at the door. He stated Ms. Washburn moved into the group home off Dill Rd in Curry on Monday. 10/17/16 According to Mr. Burnette, the move was for Ms. Washburn's own good because they could no longer care for her. During the visit, Mrs. Burnette stated she missed Ms. Washburn and wished she were still home.

The narrator starts the story giving background information about the grandmother and her son, Bailey. The narrator explains that the "grandmother didn't want to go to Florida" (320). Although a major conflict could result from her dislike of the family's choice of vacation spots, it does not. When

The family originally intends to travel to Florida for their vacation, but Bailey reluctantly changes the location to Tennessee because the grandma feels that the children could use a change in scenery. Oddly enough, in the same conversation, the grandma reads a newspaper article that informs the family that a man who, “calls himself The Misfit is aloose…and headed towards Florida,” and she explicitly states that she would never “take [her] children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it” (1). The fact that the family is traveling to the same area as The Misfit hints at their encounter in the end of the story.

The comparisons--North vs. South, city vs. country, technology vs. nature--are numerous and have been well documented in 20th century literature. Progress contrasts sharply with rooted cultural beliefs and practices. Personalities and mentalities about life, power and change differ considerably between worlds... worlds that supposed-intellectuals from the West would classify as "modern" and "backwards," respectively. When these two worlds collide, the differences--and the danger--rise significantly. This discrepancy between the old and the new is one of the principal themes of Gloria Naylor's Mama Day. The interplay between George, Ophelia and Mama Day shows the discrepancies between a "modern" style of thinking and one born of

No one ever said raising a child would be easy. If you are a first time mom, and was looking for a hand manual at the hospital, you probably got a dose of reality when you were told—there is no such thing. There is no need to worry by the time your second child comes along, you will have child rearing in the bag. So, just what do you do when the nurses hand over your bundle of joy and tell you it’s time to take your baby home?

When Alma and her family move to America, they begin their new life in a place that is strange and confusing, one that is unaccommodating, and causes Alma’s misery and guilt to almost overwhelm her. After the Rivera’s first day in America, they find their appartment and try to go to sleep. Arturo and her daughter Maribel fall asleep right away, but Alma lays awake in bed, wondering to herself if they ”had... done the right thing, coming here?” (6). In the morning, they wake up, confused, “bewildered, and disorientated, glancing at one another, darting [their] gazes from wall to wall. And then we remembered. Delaware. Over three thousand kilometers from our home in Pátzuco. Three thousand kilometers and a world away” (6). Alma and Arturo left their home, not because they wanted to come to America, but because they wanted to be able to help their daughter, Maribel. She had an accident that caused a traumatic brain injury, and Alma feels that the accident is her fault, and has been consumed with grief ever since. Although the Riveras came to America to help Maribel, Alma still wonders to herself if it was the

Mama is motivated by her late husband's life insurance check to buy a new house for her family. After getting back from being gone for a while, Mama comes home and asks Travis what he thinks she’s done with the money. Answering her own question, “She went out and she bought you a house!” (586). This helps show why Mama was gone so long and what she was doing. This shows she how she was motivated by her late husband's life insurance check to buy a house for her family because she went out for a long time and bought the house and gave the news once she got back.

The story unfolds with Mama reflecting on herself and her two daughters, and how much they all differ. Mama is an uneducated, large woman who works with her hands, she is the provider for her family. Throughout the telling of the story the readers see that Mama most identifies with the archetype of the Good Mother, or Earth Mother. The Good Mother is a nurturer who exhibits warmth, protection, selflessness. Mama values her daughters and their shared heritage even if her daughters cannot find value in themselves or where they are from. She has worked hard to provide for her family, give her daughters an education, and please them- especially Dee. When Dee asks

The family stops at a restaurant to get a bite to eat, and we find out that the two parents, Bailey and his wife, do not really care for the Grandmother. The Grandmother asks Bailey to dance, but he just declines and ignores her. Bailey’s wife does not seem to care either. They then continue on the road, and the Grandmother begins to tell the story of a house that she really enjoyed passing. She really wanted to go there, so she persuaded the children to want to go as well. After a long time of complaining, they finally convince their father to head back toward this house. They go down this road when all

In another instance, a group of "po' white trash children" confront Momma at her store, taunting her. As Renee Barlow notes, "They were represented as clownish, dirty, and rather silly. On the other hand, Mama simply stood like a rock and sang the Gospel. Her beauty of soul versus their disgusting antics creates a powerful scene about the nature of the oppressed and the oppressor. Marguerite, meanwhile, lies crouched behind the screen in agony at the inability of her class to command respect simply because of their color. Then, as the scene progresses, she understands that in spite of the disparity of power between the po'white trash and Mama, Mama has won" (Barlow, 861927397.html). She has won not because she has outsmarted the white youths or even -- strictly speaking -- overpowered them, but because she has outclassed them.

A mom has brought a 6 year old boy to your Naturopathic clinic; she is worried that their son has been bed wetting at night since his birth. Mother told that her daughter is 4 years old and she is not wetting the bed at night. She has brought their son to the family doctor last week; the FD has advised her it could be normal for boys at this age, but she is concerned about her son’s bed wetting and wants your opinion.

The Grandma tried to keep her family safe by trying to take a different direction other than Florida because of The Misfit, who is criminal who escaped from the Federal Pen. She convinces them to go to East Tennessee instead to visit some of her connections since she grew up there. ---“Here this fellow that calls himself The Misfit is aloose from the Federal Pen and headed toward Florida and you read here what it says he did to these people.”(Par. 2) She wouldn’t feel comfortable by taking her children in that direction since a criminal was on the loose in the area. Also the Grandma mentions to her son that he should take the kids somewhere they haven’t been before since they had already been to Florida. ---"You all ought to take them somewhere else for a change so they would see different parts of the world and be broad.”(Par. 4) I figure that the Grandma was just trying to do a mother’s job to do anything

Marguerite creates a different version of the confrontation between Momma and the dentist because the truth was not what she needed to hear. She wanted a powerful and compelling story, one that finally showed the dominance of a black over a white, for none of them existed. For once, she wanted to be the one in command of the outcome, to have control over how her people were treated. Nothing hurts more than having to sit still and take it while somebody sabotages you repeatedly, and to quench her aching desire for conquest, she over exaggerated. The dentist standing at R.O.T.C. attention in the presence of Momma, shaking with fear, Momma enunciating perfect English, making witty remarks to those normally respected, and Momma turning the nurse