Thursday, September 27, 2012

I stand here ironing

I found this story to be deep with words by a mother who wished the best for her daughter but had to go through so many struggles which caused many problems for Emily, her first born. I believed the turning point of the story is when the mother sends her to her father when shes very young and her mind still so fragile. Her coming back home to her mother became hard due to the lack of having money and catching chicken pox. When reunited with her mother everything started going downhill and who knows what could of been said or done to her while she was gone at her young age. This part for me i must say is the most significant leading to the rest of her years.
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  1. Miss BSeptember 27, 2012 at 12:06 PM

    If the turning point in Emily's life is the time when she is just a baby and her mother sends her to live with the father's family, should we interpret this as a bad parenting choice on the mother's part? When you write "who knows what could have been said or done to her while she was gone at her young age", what do you have in mind? Is it possible that due to the fact Emily was just a baby and was gone for almost two years, when she returned home she did not recognize her mother?

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  2. UnknownSeptember 27, 2012 at 1:38 PM

    Of course it was a good idea. Let me regress, it was a hard decision, but the right one. She had to work crazy amount of hours to support her family. However this did vastly alter the relationship between the mother and daughter, especially at such a critical bonding age. But the mother didn't have another option during the hard economic times of that era

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