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(page 4) "fter ducking down in the taxi so mom wouldnt see me, i hated myself hated my antiques, my clothes and my apartment. i had to do something so i called a friend of mom's and left a message. it was our system of staying in touch. it always took mom a few days to get back to me, but when i heard from her, she sounded as always cheerful and causal though, as though we'd had lunch the day before. i told her i wanted to see her and suggested she drop by the apprtment but she wanted to go to a restaurant. she loved eating out, so we agreed to meet for lunch at her favourite chinese restuaran". i believe this passage is one of the most significant in the book because this passage emphisizes on the realtionship between the author and her mother. …show more content…
we can such tell that she was ashamed of her mother who was actually homless and lived in the streets but she also loved then and felt bad of that because she was hidding from the society to save her own reputation. leaving her parents behindwhen she is living in a apratment surrounded by expensive antiques she couldn't enjoy her living she blamed hersef for hiding from her mother and felt stranded between her mother and the society. the passage also show's she maintains a distance relationship and used to call her mother's friend to contact her. the narrator but introduces a unique personality of her mother which shows that she doesnt feel bad about who she is and accept herself rather than being ashamed as the narrator says whenever they used to meet her mother always shounded cheerful and casula. it also shows us even though jeanette sees her mother differently now but for her mother their relation never changed. on the other hand choosing of going to a restraunt rather then dropping by the apartment shows that even though her mother is living her life in bad circumstances she dint leave her habbits neither her choices. we can connect this passage with our world very relatively because many times what people in the

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