Unit 3 Performance Task Literary Analysis In one way or another, children are shaped by those who raise them. When Paulo Cuelho said that children’s “stories and all their accomplishments, sit atop the stories of their mothers and fathers, stones upon stones,” he meant what children become or what they are now, is mainly because of their parents and how they were raised by their parents. Nevertheless, “the watch fires of an enemy” means that to her her daughter was not an enemy in the beginning but after her daughter shifted away from what her mom raised her like, she started having different feelings about her daughter. Through relations between convoluted characters, Sharon Olds poem " The Possessive" exhibits how in most cases …show more content…
The mother in the poem describes how she felt betrayed by her daughter due to her getting a haircut. Even though before she got the haircut her mother didn’t seem to have a problem with her daughter but when she does she says this “My body. My daughter. I’ll have to find another word. (Olds 14-15). Which shows her overview of her daughter had changed. When her daughter starts to break free from her control, the mother feels threatened and starts to view her daughter as an enemy. ”the watch fires of an enemy,” In both “The Possessive” and "Rules of Game” the parents often feel as though their children are going to be satisfactory if they follow the path they had set for them, but this can sometimes lead to possessiveness and expectations that can be detrimental to the parent-child relationship. Parents need to find a balance between supporting their children and allowing them to choose their path in life. They need to understand that in life children grow up and find themselves and that sometimes the things they thought their children to do may change as the child grows