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The Estrangement by Jamaica Kincaid
This story implements and emphasizes how crucial or influental is motherhood into shaping children's character and life.The main theme is motherhood and it's influence but also hatred and resilience.
Throughout the story we understand how much angry is Jamaica with her mother even if she is dead.Jamaica was never appreciated by her mother or loved but instead was critisized and oppressed.Her mother made her go through a terrible upbringing filled with nothing less but love.
Is this clear? It is to me right now as I write it: I would rather be dead 10 than spend eternity with our mother! And do I really mean that when I say it? Yes, I really mean just that: after being my mother's daughter, I would I rather be dead than spend eternity with her.
By this Jamaica wants to emphasize how angry she was with her mother and how much hatred she had for her as she was fed up with her words and actions.Its really hard to say that for your mother but it seems that Jamaica's mother went beyond her limits.
The word ''eternity''  is used purposely to emphasize her motherhood influence.Although her mother is dead she lives in Jamaica's darkest thoughts and haunts her all her life.Not only does she think about her mother all the time but she's also behaving in an unconcious way like her mother.
....as I can see, but tears have been shed over my not being completely enthusiastic about going to a final basketball game in a snowstorm, or saying something I should have kept in my mind's mouth. A particularly unforgivable act in my children's eyes is a book's dedication I made to them.
Although her mother's dead it looks like her marks will never vanish.It will be there for eternity.
Jamaica implements repetitions throughout the story not only of the word eternity but also other phrases and she also makes questions.
In regard to my children, eternity is right now, and I always want to be with them. In regard to my mother, my progenitor, eternity is beyond now, and is that not forever? I will not speak to her again in person, of that I am certain, but I am not sure that I will never speak to her again? For in eternity is she in me, and are even my children speaking to her? I do not know, I do not know. 
It seems like Jamaica  is  always fighting with her memories of childhood and her bad upbringing.She doesn't want her mother's ghost to win and that is what I like most about the story.I like the fact that Jamaica keeps fighting all her life to not let her past influence her life.She didn't turned to the monster her mother was and she really loves her children.Although some things or people may not be erased by our memory the best thing to do is trying and trying .



Barbie doll by Marge Piercy
This poem tells about ideals and expectations society has into young girls.It is present at every age and unfortunately some girls lose theirselves into pleasing society's needs.
This girlchild was born as usual
and presented dolls that did pee-pee
and miniature GE stoves and irons
and wee lipsticks the color of cherry candy.

The poem begins with the birth of a girlchild who is still unconcioussnes about things offered around but it actually shapes her role in life which is a good mother and ''a good housewife''. The dolls symbolize motherhood while stoves and irons implement the ideal of a housewife who has always have to deal with house chores .
Then in the magic of puberty, a classmate said:
You have a great big nose and fat legs.
She was healthy, tested intelligent,
possessed strong arms and back,
abundant sexual drive and manual dexterity.
She went to and fro apologizing.
Everyone saw a fat nose on thick legs.
In puberty,that's where all humans experience changes but these changes are not often expected well.Maybe we are all bullied but girls are the ones who are judged more.These judgements are stay with women for the lest of their life as women are expected to be perfect .The girl's classmates didn't manage to see through her flaws.
She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.
Her good nature wore out
like a fan belt.
So she cut off her nose and her legs
and offered them up.
The girl was not appreciated but instead was obliged or pushed to change her physical appereance.In the end it seems she fulfilled societie's expectations by cutting her nose and legs offering to the cruel world.
In the casket displayed on satin she lay
with the undertaker's cosmetics painted on,
a turned-up putty nose,
dressed in a pink and white nightie.
Doesn't she look pretty? everyone said.
Consummation at last.
To every woman a happy ending.
The girl is now dead and buried with a painted reconstructed face and turned-up nose.Ironically the author says a happy ending as she had now reached the society standards .Now that she is dead she is now pretty and acceptable. The authour writes that to emphasize the absurdity of society expectations.