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The Raincoat By Ada Limon

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April 20, 2023

Negative or positive, children are shaped by those who raised them. Parents influence their child's basic values, like religious values, and issues related to their future, and how they eventually turn out when they’re older. Ada Limon's poem “The Raincoat” symbolizes how a parent influences their child and reflects the comfort and protection parents can offer through simple gestures. Amy Tan’s short story “Two Kinds” demonstrates what the mother wants for her daughter but the daughter does not want for herself, it creates a conflict and gives examples of how a parent may affect a child's life. Both texts reveal that the relationships between parents and children influence how they become later in life and also explain that …show more content…

“I Never asked her what she gave up to drive me, or how her day was before this chore Today, at her age, I was driving myself home from yet another spine appointment, singing along to some maudlin but the solid song on the radio, and I saw a mom take her raincoat off and give it to her young daughter when a storm took over the afternoon. (Limón, 14-23), this gives the reader insight into how the child changed throughout the story, she finally realized how her mother protected her throughout her childhood. After maturing she realizes how her mother influenced her and protected her thought-out her life, it took some time but she finally came to an understanding of how her relationship with her mother made her into the person she is …show more content…

Her mother's words give her the expectation that she is not what she expects and her self-image is something not worth looking at. Then she senses the angry, prideful side of herself that is willing to leave core parts of herself behind if she can stand up to this expectation. June was excited to become the prodigy's her parents wanted but she quickly started to get sick of it and started to doubt herself, But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. “If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,” it warned. “And then you’ll always be nothing. (Tan, 9-11) She’s getting impatient and wants to finally get this prodigy title. After daily practice and getting pushed by her mother constantly, she started to become rebellious, “You want me to be someone that I’m not!” I sobbed. “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!” (Tan,

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