Night Women In Class Writing

While reading this story I felt hopelessness in the women. She speaks in a tone about herself as if she has given up and only finds peace when she clears her mind. She lives her life for her son, therefore I don't believes she is helpless. She is willing to work a job that makes her sick, she lies to her son, she feels pain when he does. Her life centers around giving her son a better life, she lives for his happiness not her own. This is interesting parent/child relationship and really creates the tone of the whole piece. I think that this might be reflective or contrasting of things we've read so far. It reflects Lilli from A Wall of Fire Rising, though it contrasts every father/daughter relationship thus far. This is not a only a gender theme, but also an important representation of all parents working hard for their children to succeed. The only thing that changes from boy to girl, is the definition of success. The tone of desperation but hope from the mother makes sense in context of the plot as it explains her reasoning to do such painful work. She wants her son to sleep well, get educated and live a better life than her, therefore she sacrifices her story/legacy for his. I believe the magic of the chapter helps her son understand his mother, and helps the women cope with her struggle. Each chapter we have read so far has had a tone of escape. In this one, the escape for the son is his mother's hard work, her escape is the magic she feels when she watches him dream/sleep. This is important to show the depth of the characters in a short amount of time. We know even from the first few pages about the mother's love, passion and imagination.