The passage I am blogging is from the excerpt of the "Sky is Gray" by Ernest J. Gaines. It is the ending part of the scene where the mother is beating her son because he failed to kill and grab the
redbird so they can cook and eat it. I find this scene interesting because it is showing a mother that trying to teach her son to not just fend for himself but for his family even though he at an very tender age.
However she is teaching him in a very cruel manner and is not doing a very good job of it because not only are her methods harsh but she is not even bothering to explain why it is so crucial for him to leran this lesson or why she is trying to instill it into him so harshly. Someone else has to do it for her.
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Readers see this alternate world, in "The Sky is Grey" and may not understand its importance. The mother, who react harshly to her son is in fact preparing him for the world. As cliche as it sounds, the world that they lived in is far different from our own. The mother at one point of the sory had to decide whether to buy food. When she finnally did she did not eat any of it, but instead gave it to her son. At another point of the story she goes into a store and pretends to want to make a purchase in order for her son to be able to get warm. Was the weather not rough on her too? Was she not hungry as well? It is in these small portioms of the reading where we see the mothers compasion demonstated. She truely loves the boy. This love over rides her, as you see it, inhumane teachings. The world, as she KNOWS is a dangerous journey, however her son will have to take on that road. She is simply supplying him with body armor. If she does it in a timid way her point may not be made. It is my belief that although her way of teaching him was emotionally tough for me to take, she has her reasons. I dont believe we can truely ,TRUELY understand their situation.
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