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Why I Hate Mother's Day Analysis

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In her May 8, 2010 article “Why I Hate Mother’s Day” published in the on-line magazine Salon, Anna LaMott wrote that she hates mother’s day, because she doesn’t like the way people celebrates the mother’s day. On mother’s day people buys fancy dinner and flowers for their mothers but, the authors wants people to appreciate what their mothers have done for them, because mother’s don’t care about fancy dinners. In the article author gives an example, where she hates the way mother’s day holiday makes non-mothers feel, because there are mothers out there whose child has died or their child have disability so they can’t celebrate the holiday and on this day all the mothers feels failure in theirs must go to churches or temple to make them feel

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