Assignment 10

''The Estrangement'' and ''MY MOTHER'S BODY'' by Marge Piercy 

''The Estrangement'' by Jamaica Kincaid  reveals the relationship that she had with her mother. I read the essay and the  first opinion that comes in my mind is that her mother is a bad person and don't love her children. She tells us that she stopped talking to her mother after she spoke unkindly about her in a conversation that they had on the phone. In my opinion I think that whatever a mother does the child should forgive her because it is her mother, the one who born her. In the essay the mother is described as a nice person by other people but on the other hand she is not nice for her and her siblings.She says that her mother'' said horrible things to us more often than not'' and that nice person everyone saw in her '' was not at all known to us''.
During a conversation over the telephone, she had once again let me know that my accomplishments-becoming a responsible and independent woman-did not amount to very much, that the life I lived was nothing more than a silly show, that she truly wished me dead. I didn't disagree. I didn't tell her that it would be just about the best thing in the world not to hear this from her. 
The essay is written very good and impressed me but this paragraph grab my attention because I can not think how a mother can say to her child that she truly wished her dead, for me is a  silly thing because a mother should be kind to her children and not curse them on this way.
The main themes in this essay is motherhood and independence that she is trying to gain and for me this is a beautiful act. 
I not only hope to live for a very long time after this, I will be angry in eternity if this turns out not to be the case. And so in eternity will my children want to be with me? And in eternity will I, their mother, want to be with them? In regard to my children, eternity is right now, and I always want to be with them.
Also, her  Jamaica shows us that she is very different from her mother and she mentions the word eternity to say that she will not leave her children but she will stay with them and she is trying to gain the independence. In this way she will not do the actions that her mother did with them. In my opinion I think that we should always try to do our best no matter what happens.





''MY MOTHER'S BODY''

The author of the poem who is Marge Piercy describes how her mother died far away from her daughter and that at her death they were  together. This  poem shows us gradually how Piercy  moves from despair to the affirmation of life. Also, in the poem we have a symbol and are candles. Candles in our poem symbolize the human soul. Metaphorically it seems a soul that has been lost. What I liked in the poem was that the Marge has written in a way that her mother is alive near to her and not dead.
I liked this poem because it is a four section one and in the second section we are into Piercy's own mind. We have the description of how she walks alone through the rooms of memory, the clothes that her mother wears, her sisters 'stage costumes' and the garments in which she recalls her daughter '' dressing her''.
The third section extends this notion of dressing from the literal to the metaphorical and she describes her mothers body , the poem's subject.
In the fourth section by symbolizing yet again a word from her previous section. Her mothers diminished and 'coat of few colors' ( her mother and her own body). Also, the author says that she does not want to be like her mother.
I like her poem because it comes from her personal life experience and she writes for all mothers and daughters. Also, Piercy makes the grief of a daughter for the death of a mother because she was not near her mother when she died.