"As Nervous as she tended to be, she could always rally in times of crisis." (p. 50) The preceding quote is of course referring to Mary's mother during the time when Grandma Moore was fighting with cancer.
This quote seems somewhat odd to me because it seems different that some of the few times that her mother is actually a normal person is during a time when most people can't handle everything going on. In the previous chapter Mary finally gets into detail about her mother. She tends to have a lot of Nervous moments and I find it kind of weird that she would become a completely normal person during the time when her mother just had a leg amputated and was getting sicker and sicker from the cancer by the day. In a way it actually makes her seem more Nervous because she of the way she handles it. It could just be the way she handles her grief but I think the book will eventually get more into this.
Family Memory
For some reason while reading this book the memory of me learning how to tie my shoes with my grandmother comes to mind. I remember she had this wooden outline of a shoe that had a shoelace running through it like it would look on a real shoe.
Everyday my grandma would bring me into the kitchen with this wooden shoe and continually try to teach me how to tie. It took me a good couple of weeks but eventually I did it.
It then actually took me about another week to be able to apply this to an actual shoe, which I thought was kind f funny based on how long it took me to learn how to simply tie it. I'm not sure why this one memory comes to mind, my grandma taught me a lot of things. I think it is just due to the fact that Mary's grandmother kept yelling about how the kids couldn't tie.
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Phil
ReplyDeleteGreat critical point thinking being done here on your writing. I like that not only do you write something but you leave it up to somebody else to somewhat jump in your mind and think about what you are.
Just to add my two cents, maybe Mary's mothers nervousness went away because she actually has something big to keep her mind off the whatever was making her that way in the first place? Some sort of a numb feeling setting in because of what her mother was going through, making everything else in life at that time seem insignificant? Just some food for thought. Great blog
It took me a week to tie shoes also
ReplyDeleteHey Phil! I like that you commented on this dynamic difference in Mary's mother. It is really surprising how a woman so "nervous" could be capable to handle things. ok gotta go
ReplyDeleteHey that was a really cool image. I liked the fact that it seemed pretty random. It also reminded me of back in the day when I couldn't really tie my own shoe. I thought you did a good job of describing and creating an image of you learning to tie a shoe in the kitchen. The only thing I would really add would be some more detail.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had read your comment on my blog earlier about your mom having cancer as well. I am so glad she is alive and well today and I guess we really can relate to eachothers experiences on that issue. Its definitly not easy to deal with a parent having such a horiible disease! Once again, I am so glad your mom is ok.
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