Mother’s play an important role in the lives of their family’s. How a mother reacts, can make or break their family. Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt, and The Color of Water by James McBride are two novels that portray a mother who stuck by her family in poverty and the results are tremendous in the lives of McCourt and McBride. The poem by Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish contains a mother who also lived …showed first 75 words of 1344 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1344 total…care? She needs a lover. Consider, while reading these lines, that during Ginsberg’s ‘heterosexual’ phase as a young man he was psychoanalyzed and came to believe that his homosexuality was an aberration caused by his experiences with his mother. As you can see mother’s choices the make in their lives not only effect them but the family in which they raise. A mother’s love and understanding for her children is ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**