Mother And Son Theme Essay

The connection between mother and son is untradeable. There is inevitable love that pushes a mother to do absolutely anything because of the maternal instinct that is bestowed within. Unconditional motherly love releases the “super power” inside a desperate mother in need of her child. In the novel “Son,” Lois Lowry uses characterization in the main character, Claire, to demonstrate her courage, desperateness, and mental, as well as physical, strength that strives her to find her son. Born in an utopian society, Claire is assigned her role as a birthmother. After something goes terribly wrong in her birth, she is reassigned to the fish hatchery. After overhearing her son is number thirty-six in the Nurturing center, she creates a friendship with the Nurturer so she can secretly see her growing son. The village elders decide, at one year old, he is not suitable for a family and would be killed. The Nurturer’s son, Jonas, runs off with the baby and Claire sets off on a ship to find them. Her body washes up on shore of another village without any memory of what happened. After listening to a little girls’ conversation, Claire thinks “This baby in my belly makes me forgetful,one little girl had said. Claire, working now with Alys, preparing the herbs for Bethan’s mother, understood what the child was pretending. Why did it make Claire feel so unbearably sad?”(Lowry 153). Lois Lowry uses indirect characterization to illustrate
‘Say it.’
‘Trade,’ she said loudly.
‘Done.’ He released her then and shoved her away from him”(Lowry 265).
Claire had become an old woman reaching her final days. She would watch her now fifteen-year-old son, Gabe, work on his boat. The trade emphasized Claire’s desperateness to see her son as he grew into a man, even if it meant not being able to be with him. Jonas and Gabe now know Claire is Gabe’s mother who is on her death bed. Gabe risks his life by using his power and get his mother’s youth back from the