An Analysis of Mia’s Deception Celeste Ng's book "Little Fires Everywhere" examines the complexity of parenting, race, class, and identity in the planned community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, during the 1990s. Mia Wright, a single mother, moved to Shaker Heights with her daughter, Pearl. She works part-time for the Richardson family as a housekeeper but refuses to discuss her past and is very protective of Pearl. Mia's deception played a significant role in developing the plot and characters in "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng, and understanding her motives is crucial to fully comprehend the novel. Firstly, an example inside of the novel of Mia being secretive could be when she was refused to answer Izzy Richardson when she asks where she went to …show more content…
This led to her searching for ways to make money, which ended up with her becoming a surrogate mother for a couple. She attempts to avoid her family and not to bother them. However, her brother, Warren, visits her in New York, shocked. He makes her think about what having a baby actually means. Her brother tragically dies in a car accident, and to honor him, Mia decides to keep the baby and go on the run. Mia primarily kept this information from everyone around her as it was a risk to her custody of Pearl. Just the fact of how tragic the surrogacy was, like her relationship with her parents being ruined, and her brother dying, were also reasons for this secrecy. The surrogacy made Mia want to do everything in her power to keep Pearl from experiencing the same pain that she went through. She wants no one else to interfere with the relationship she and Pearl has and will go to extreme measures to keep her by her side. At a young age, Mia becomes a surrogate mother for a couple. Her experience with surrogacy affects Mia’s motives throughout the novel, and the situation causes her to be very protective of