Sacrifice: An Analysis Of Meeker's 'Momma'

The family’s pain also conveys itself during Deborah’s speech, when she says, “We miss you, Mama …. I think of you all the time and wish I could see you…”(221). Deborah starts to speak directly to her mother, which conveys emotions of love as well as sadness. Skloot implies that Deborah could not survive for the whole conference if she did not acknowledge her mother at least once. As the speech to her mom is given, Deborah does not care who hears or what they think about her; she just overwhelms herself as she longs for her mother.

Walker’s work are known for their portrayal of the African-American woman’s life. She depicts brightly the sexism, racism and poverty that make that life often a struggle. But she also describes as part of that life that strengthens of family, community, self-worth, and spirituality (Jone Johnson Lewis, 2007). The story opens in the narrative point of view, and its language is trendy, witty and colorful. Colorful language, specialized diction, and Mama’s unique phrases and observation five “Everyday Use” a sense of realism. Giving voice to a member of a group that had typically been silenced. Walker gives Mama the power to narrate and control and use language to convey her story and thoughts in her own way (sparknote.com). The style of this

Knowing that she and her family are able to survive such distressing situations without having to jeopardize their views allows her to have faith in her family's future and gives

Mothers have a huge impact on lives. They would go to war and back to keep their children safe. The smallest things can have the biggest impact. In Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Mothers”, the narrator portrays her mother as a young child and also as an adult.

Abuse, hatred and anger represent the main themes in this poem. The speaker clearly hates and feels anger towards her father. Her mother had taught the kids to hate him. “Taught us to take it, to hate you and take it until we pricked with her for your annihilation,” she hates her father to the extent that she and the siblings were happy about their parents separating. “When mother divorced you, we were glad”. The speaker’s mother is a victim of abuse. She had tolerated her husband and his behaviors till she divorced him. “She took it and took it, in silence, all those years”

The poem “Mother Who Gave Me Life”, written by Gwen Harwood explores the extremely personal relationship between a daughter and her mother. It focus’ on the universal role of women as mothers and nurturers throughout time. It explores the intimate moments and memories between a daughter and her mother, and gives us as the reader an insight into the relationship between the two.

After this traumatic event, the mother stayed same place, although the mothers of victims beat her. It seemed to me that she is internalizing or questioning her faults about this massacre. She usually visited Kevin in the prison, so she might have some hope about Kevin or she was just blaming herself about happenings.

When Kayla’s father died, she soon became distant and irritable. Her irritability is displayed in chapter 3, when she raises her voice or speaks harshly to her mom a total of three times in their first shown full conversation;

     Jackie’s confidence increases because of the relationships he finds in his mother and the priest. Jackie’s mother is the typical mom. She is always shielding him from the world, and especially his father’s thrashings. It seems she is his only ally in the world until he meets the priest. Jackie feels betrayed when Nora takes him to confession instead of his mother. As a result, his sister

In the poem “Mother's” mother was rarely mentioned,but she was mentioned enough to give us a good look at things. Mother stayed up every night while her child slept waiting on her husband to get back from his night job. “She was very deliberately waiting perhaps for my father to come home from his night job, or maybe for a dream that had promised to come by.”(Mothers) although mother was mentioned little to none, mommy was brought up a lot

​She concerns and cares about his son in his childhood. The little boy always cried and sob in his earlier age, his father seems that has no idea

There were people everywhere. Most of which, she had never met. They had known her father through the bakery he owned, or college, or just came because they knew he was a great man. She held one year old Jericho in her arms as her mother, Cleo, stared off into space. Cleo hadn’t said a word to Daltyn or anyone really since they first heard about the accident.

"The Mother," by Gwendolyn Brooks, is a sorrowful, distressing poem about a mother who has experienced numerous abortions. While reading the poem, you can feel the pain, heartache, distress and grief she is feeling. She is both remorseful and regretful; nevertheless, she explains that she had no other alternative. It is a sentimental and heart wrenching poem where she talks about not being able to experience or do things with the children that she aborted -- things that people who have children often take for granted. Perhaps this poem is a reflection of what many women in society are feeling.

A mother’s love can be defined as the ability to care about someone so much that she lays down her life for her children and makes sure to keep them safe for their future growth. However some mothers’ actions even though their intent maybe viewed in their eyes as right can be seen by others as harsh, unjustified and unmotherly like. In Toni Morrison’s “Beloved,” Cynthia Ozick’s “The Shawl” and Alejandro Amenábar’s “The Others” it is shown first hand how these mothers believe what they are doing is best for their children but in hindsight all that is occurring is the build up to their children’s deaths.

The poem “The Mother” written by Gwendolyn Brooks in 1945, is a poem that focuses on the immeasurable losses a woman experiences after having an abortion. The poems free verse style has a mournful tone that captures the vast emotions a mother goes through trying to cope with the choices she has made. The author writes each stanza of the poem using a different style, and point of view, with subtle metaphors to express the speaker’s deep struggle as she copes with her abortions. The poem begins with, “Abortions will not let you forget” (Brooks 1), the first line of the poem uses personification to capture your attention. The title of the poem has the reader’s mindset centered around motherhood, but the author’s expertise with the opening line, immediately shifts your view to the actual theme of the poem. In this first line the speaker is telling you directly, you will never forget having an abortion. Brooks utilizes the speaker of the poem, to convey that this mother is pleading for forgiveness from the children she chose not to have.