![]() ![]() She didn’t come from a wealthy background like most writers have, but she was from a different class. She is done by a short story on one of her childhood memories with her mother. From this action, she chose to go into the world of ligature, to give people a new perspective on life. Motivation can come from the smallest things in the world, such as writing one’s signature in the dust. Growing up in a poor class in society inspire her to do better in life and to help her family into a better lifestyle. ![]() She just wanted something different from life. Alvarez wanted to be like her mother but differently, she was never embarrassed by her. “To be like her, anonymous.” (Alvarez 754). But from the final sentence of the poem gives us a better understanding of how she felt about her mother. As if her name didn’t mean anything in this world. From this line from the poem, her mother never complimented her work only cleaning away the dust with her name. While mother followed, squirting linseed from a burping can into a crumpled-up flannel” (Alvarez 754). As if she is told that a better future wasn’t possible. While reading the poem it almost sounded like Alvarez didn’t like her mother. She felt that her family’s name could be more than it’s worth from her childhood, something better. Alvarez didn’t want her life being a maid for other people. To be like her, anonymous.” (Alvarez 754). Instead, she aimed to be something else when she grows up. Fearing that the cycle will continue for her family’s name. As her mother cleaned the dust off the furniture along with her name, Alvarez felted like she would end up in the same line of work as her mother. My name was swallowed in the towel” (Alvarez 754). “Linseed from a burping can into a crumpled-up flannel. In the second paragraph of the poem, Alvarez describes how she felt what her future may have looked like. Alvarez's mother may not have had enough money to afford a sitter for her daughter, so she brought Alvarez along to her job.Īlvarez’s mother probably didn’t have a lot of opportunities when she was growing and had to take whatever she can get to raise Julia. To keep herself occupied, she decided to practice her signature to make it better every time. “Each morning I wrote my name/On the dusty cabinet, then crossed/The dining table in script, scrawled/In capitals on the back of chairs/Practicing signatures like scales” (Alvarez 754). While her mother was doing her job, Alvarez found a hobby while her mother was busy. Her mother worked for multiple people and Alvarez was brought along to help. These few lines tell us that she is a maid for hire. “On the dusty cabinet, then crossed/The dining table in script, scrawled/In capitals on the backs of chairs” (Alvarez 753-754). What was Alvarez’s mother's job? The first paragraph in Alvarez’s poem describes what her mother did for a living. We can estimate her age by the way she acted with her mother at her job, being that she is a child in the poem. When does Alvarez’s motivation come from in her life? Her poem doesn’t pacifically tell the reader how early in life this takes place. ![]() Alvarez expresses her motivation to become different from her mother in her poem, using metaphors from her childhood memory to explain how she became a writer. Those metaphors helped the reader to see how Alvarez felt different from her mother. In Alvarez’s poem, Dusting, metaphors were used to describe her childhood with her mother at her job. ![]() One of these poems takes place in an author’s childhood memory. We can see this in poems and how the author describes their feelings, viewpoints, and stories. In literature, metaphors are commonly used to express how each of us views the world. ![]()
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