Missing Mama Analysis

In the novel, her mother dies when she was going to visit her cousins in Idaho. Her mother does not drive herself to Idaho because she has a trouble with driving alone. As a result, she takes the bus and unfortunate things happen to her. The bus experiences a tremendous accident which causes her mother dies. At the same time, Sal remarks that “I prayed that we would not be in an accident (I was terrified of cars and buses) and that we would get there by my mother’s birthday-seven-days away and that we would bring her home” (Creech 7).

In paragraph 31, her mom asked her to make friends, but the daughter doesn’t see the point of it. She says she never has time for friends. She also tells mother that they have to move every few months so there's no point. Some more evidence is found in paragraph 24 when she doesn’t want to stay in New Mexico for the summer. The daughter feels like it's a world away from California.

Sal already knew her mom had died, but she didn’t want to believe it. She never let herself believe that her mom has passed away. Sal’s mom died when she was going to Lewiston, Idaho. She was in a bus, and the bus tipped over killing everyone except one person, and that person wasn't Sal’s mom. Sal loves her mom and doesn’t want to think she is dead.

Mi Ma has been trying to persuade me to leave Clementine here. She has been trying to persuade me to take the Cline family to Oregon ever since an old fella named Albert went there. I think she takes a liken to him ever since pee pa died from a gunfight in town. His death was only last year and she 's already after a new man. Pee Paw and Mi Ma were the same age when he died, only 58 years old, he couldn 't quite make sixty.

While we were talking about death, I asked her how she felt about death. In this stage, she started to think more about death due to her parents dying. She appear to be a strong women but you can clearly see it affected her a lot more than she lead on to be. Her relationship with her husband was not stable but for the sake of the children, they did decide to stay in the relationship.

By continuing to attend the grief support group for three years shows how she is still stuck in the past. Nonetheless, after listening to the painful history her grandmother has gone through, it changed her way of viewing everything. Despite the pain endured when she was young, she lives a life in which she is proud of. This made Sage understand that the past should not be the reason to live by. In addition, regret is another emotion that is evident throughout the novel.

No one knew how she came to life. The only thing the towns people knew was that she existed and this begun the lineage to Johnathan. Brod later became the adopted daughter of Yankel D. Yankel’s love for Brod was immense. Yankel lost his wife because she decided to leave him. She left a note saying “I left you because I needed too.”

The significance of Kincaid’s title “The Estrangement” is to describe her deteriorating relationship with her mother. In the story, Kincaid explains how she stopped talking to her mother a few years before she died because she always made her feel like her accomplishments weren't good enough. Estrangement is the fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group and during the story Kincaid looked at her mother as a hero; but eventually developed resentment. For example, in the first sentence of the essay Kincaid said “ three years before my mother died, I decided not to speak to her again”.

Flooding in the Trailer Park- 1972 One summer day Carol’s mother called to make sure she was okay. Carol had heard that Hurricane Agnes was approaching the area she lived in Pennsylvania but it was just a steady rain outside her window.

In the poem “forgiving my father”, Lucille Clifton writes of a young daughter reminiscing about her father’s recent death. The daughter talks about it being Friday, it being payday. She discusses her father and how he owed her and her dead mother money when really they just wanted him to be present. The daughter feels she has had no time with her father and she resents him for it. He was not present in her life and now he has passed away, leaving her with a yearning for something that she will never obtain.

But before she died she taught me alot i didnt see her at all but on the phone we would talk a lot and when we did she would talk to me about life her life in particular and about my grandpa who died when i was 3. When she died a month before my mom was devastated when she got the news about her grandma being sick since to her she was like a mom. So my mom wanted to go back to see her, she knew if she left she wouldn 't be able to come back but she was willing to risk it. My grandmother called us and she explained to my mom saying no matter if she came or didn 't there was no way she was going to get better and she was right.

Leslie’s grandmother Lisa in Huntsville, AL takes care of them financially, because Leslie will not work and can not keep a job, although she’s a licensed dental hygienist. Last semester, Leslie took Lauren out of school for a full semester, stating she was going to home school her, but that didn’t happen; Lauren ended up baby sitting her younger sister. Now Leslie is threatening to pull her son Collin out of

I don’t think the way her parents died really affected the story; it just changed the reason why she had to go live at Misselwaite Manor. When Mary was going to meet Mrs. Medlock at the train station,

After my grandmother’s sister died about 2 years ago, I started calling and visiting my grandmother a little more because I realized that she is not going to be here forever. While I can agree that aging is fabulous, I just want to cherish the time that I have with her. My grandmother’s advice to young people really makes my emotional. Out of all of her children and grandchildren, I will be the first to graduate college. It is amazing to think about how I have the opportunity to graduate college and my grandmother never graduated high school and learned to read at the age of 50.

I think the loss was more important to her, because it made her realized that it 's time to let go of her father that he wouldn 't return. 7.) The theme of this story is that sometimes you have to let go some things that will never come back again. The truth is, even if Vita choose to believe that her father will return or pray for his return, he will not come back. Therefore, she have to let it go, be independent, and