Jane Roger's Short Story 'My Mother And My Sister'
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Jane Roger has written a short story called “My Mother and her Sister.” This story is about a woman who is having her Aunt, Lucy staying with her, in her home. Lucy had been married for 49 years, then her husband Bill died. This young lady’s mother – Lucy’s sister just died. The young woman is letting Lucy stay with her because she feels like she owes Lucy for all the summers she stayed with her. The young woman and Tim eat so much of Lucy’s food, and it felt like she did not have to eat for a very long time. The young woman can not understand why Lucy just sits in front of the television all day. Lucy goes to bed at nine, get up before eight and she sleeps between four and five – she does not go shoping. The young woman have not cried over her mother’s death. She does not know how to talk to Lucy, she have
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I have chosen to take this because it can symbolize, that a “kiss” by someone who loves you can make everything a little better. Lucy and the young woman need each other right now, because they both lost someone who stood them close. They need each other to move on and see that it is okay to be sad but life goes on. In the end they will always be there for you. “The kiss” can cure even the darkest and most awful losses. “The kiss” symbolizes that your family always be there with a kiss and a hug to help you through a tough and hard period in your …show more content…
You are lost and you do not know how to move on.
“Another friend of decades estranges himself in words that pollute thirty years.” (Text 4, line 21-22.)
This is a metaphor, for when you have not seen one of your friends for many years, and they just come crashing in on you after many years – thinking that they just can come back like there has not gone thirty
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