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Mother Love Short Story

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The narrator had to put her kid into a nursery school all the time when her child was around two years old, and her child name is Emily. Emily was a beautiful baby. She had to leave Emily in a daytime with a woman who did not have any idea how to take care of a child. She had to work and looked for work to take care of Emily. She felt regretted and guilted because of what she did not do for Emily. She put Emily in a nursery home most of the time, so she can hold a job. She really loved Emily, but she did not pay attention to Emily much. She could not do much to provide for Emily because of how poor she was.
The narrator had used each of the five senses in the story for the readers to make the story more interesting. “She would start running as soon as she got off the street car, running up the stairs, the place smelling sour” from the story; which usually we had to stand around the trash can or a garbage truck to smell that. Emily was a beautiful baby, but she was not anymore after she got chicken pox. Her baby skin was just as white as snow, but now it covered in a shoddy red and yellow at the pockmarks. Emily had a talent at comedy when she was around …show more content…

Every mom in the world wants to take care of their child, and gives them their time and love. She could not give Emily a lot of her time because she was busy working. Every lower class back then had to work really hard to earn a little of money to buy food to take care for the family. The narrator did not give a lot of love to Emily compare to Susan, and which it made Emily felt empty on the inside. Emily face was closed and somber most of the time when she was a little kid. She did not want to go to the nursery school, and she lied about how she looked sick and today was a holiday. The narrator loved every one of her children, and she wanted them to have a better future and a better

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