In this scene, we learn that Antonia’s mother is ill, she blames herself for how her life has turned out, and her deplorable home life has become “normal to her.
The most obvious and prominent take-away a reader may receive from this scene is the illness of Antonia’s mother, Patrice. This is incredibly significant to the story, as it has shaped Antonia’s entire life, as well as the lives of her brothers. As Antonia arrives home, it is evident (through inference) that her mother is not present, since no one is monitoring the quarreling boys. From just this alone, the reader may think that she has just gone out to the store or some other place. However, later in the scene it is confirmed that their mother is indeed sick:
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This is evident by the way Antonia constantly blames herself for things around the house: “It was my fault the house was so bad. I should've cleaned up before leaving this morning. I should've done a load of laundry. I should've checked on mom” (9). It is obvious from this quote that Antonia believes unreservedly that the state of her home life (and therefore her brothers’) is her fault. She is thinking as a mother should, and taking responsibility for tasks that are not meant to be executed by her. This is detrimental to her mind, as she is so young, and should not be blaming herself for her somewhat poor …show more content…
Coffee” (8). The use of the word “automatically” helps the reader understand that Antonia has repeated this action so often that it has become routine. Also, towards the end of the scene, she collects money from her mother’s purse: “I removed Mom’s Visa card from her billfold and scrounged around in the bottom of her purse for bus fare”
Antonia is hesitant when it comes to discussing her mother. From the text it states, “She’s a, uh…”- I swallowed- “image consultant. ” I didn’t add, when she can get out of bed.” (pg.77) Antonia’s household is heavily impacted by her mother’s depression, which frequently resulted in Antonia having to take on a motherly role to her two younger brothers, Michael and Chuckie, and forces her to cook and clean the house.
(MacDibble 2017, p. 56). Her use of the words ‘…squashed in corner…’ (MacDibble 2017, p.56) implies that she is trying to push herself as far as possible from her mother in the restricted area. Again, the mother’s priorities are shown when she states ‘“I wash my hands of you,” she says. “you’re dead to me now.”
She worried about her mother and father. She tried to help them but things kept going wrong. Her dad was an alcoholic and her mother didn't want to work; she just wanted to keep hope in her painting career. “Your father and I are who we are, accept it” page 5, Jannete tried to help them find a place to stay but they would always fall behind on payments and they would be kicked out on the streets of new york city.
BLESS ME, ULTIMA RUDOLFO ANAYA ARAMI CASTRO PD.3 MR. AMOROSO “If you believe in your dreams, they’ll come true.” Is this true? Now for Antonio in the novel Bless Me, Ultima, has sueños (dreams) about his life and family. His dreams portray a glimpse of what is to come in the near future but still leave Antonio wondering which take the role of him losing his innocence, religious ambivalence and transitioning into manhood.
She identifies her feelings of desertion by her mother with Maggie. “Twyla and Roberta revise their memories of Maggie in order to transfer their anxieties and anger toward their mothers onto her…” (Androne 134). It is interesting to note that both the girls relate their mothers to Maggie even though Roberta’s mother is described as the opposite of Twyla’s
”(pg.96)Her mother had been binge drinking and couldn’t even take care of herself, therefore putting it on Maddie to care for her yet again. After her father’s death Maddie began to think, ”Ma didn’t blame herself for Dad’s death. She blamed
The suffering and starvation of her first winter on the prairie, ending in her father’s suicide, never diminished Antonia’s love for the country. And now Jim could see the literal fruits of her labor. Her life exhibited “the goodness of planting and tending and harvesting at last” (Cather, 127). Antonia planted seeds of kindness, freedom, and hope everywhere she went. “Tireless in serving generous emotions” (Cather, 127), Antonia freely gave her love, attention, and self to everyone she met.
This is her “aha” moment. She realizes she has this dream of wanting a mother but her dream will have to remain just that. She makes the choice to go tend to her ill father because she concludes that is her duty. A 5 year old should not have to make a tough decision like this, and should not be developmentally able to. When her father dies, her innocence dies.
While she was at her party all she wanted was people to be by her and give her all the attention. Christina is dependent on her mother after everything her mother has put her
In the story, the protagonist Winifred explains about her past experiences with her elder brother Zachary from her early years of admiration to her later years facing the similar circumstances of her brother with her youngest daughter Stephanie. During her younger years, Winifred admired her eldest brother and appeared as an obedient slave to him. Later on, however, she then faces with the disillusionment as her brother’s habits are warped to extreme measures such as smoking and drinking which later accumulates to the sorrow that she and her family faced from losing their youngest daughter Lizzie to leukemia. The death also strikes a permanent blow on Zachary, who later leaves the family due to his strained relationship with his
She Looks Out for her mother now as best as she can and her had has past away in the meantime
Her daughter, Izzy, on the other hand believes that her mother is selfish and is only thinking of herself. It bother her because her mother is so nonchalant and acts like her daughter doesn’t matter, but in reality he mother is probably doing this for her daughter. Second, the clashing of views of the mother and daughter cause tension because they misinterpreted each other. According to the text, “Opportunity? For me?
In the beginning, Constancia’s mom tells her to be nice to Abuela, and Constancia agrees. This rule is quickly broken because as soon as Constancia sees Abuela she is immediately petrified. Once they get home, Constancia has to take Abuela to Sunday mass or else her life will be damned. When they go to mass, Abuela gets lost in the sea of people and Constancia doesn’t even care enough to go and help her to her seat. On the way home, Abuela ignores Constancia and doesn’t answer any of her questions.
When Antonia arrives in town to work for the Harling's, she and the Harling's have a major dispute over her promiscuous dancing. Mr. Harling forbids Antonia to attend the dances and threatens to fire her. Antonia being the strong independent your lady she was, choose her freedom over the job and quit. In this part of the book, it kind of made the reader think of Antonia when she was a younger kid who was just learned English who had an opinion about everything.
Daemons. Daemons are external features of a person’s soul which resemble the owners’ traits. For instance, the witches could appear in form of birds so that they could be able to fly. It also symbolizes the witches’ inability to be controlled by the society.