![]() ![]() I looked at my mother, amazed at how she could be such a strong person today despite what she went through. She felt strange to me.” For some reason, this made me ache for my mom. My mother would call, ‘Jane! Jane!’ And I would crouch down, blocking my ears with my hands. “When my parents came to my grandparents’ house, I would run behind the house to hide up in the hills among the trees. ![]() She continued, “I became so used to living with my grandmother, that my own mother felt strange to me.” I looked at her then, because this was the first time I was hearing her share her feelings about this experience. It was a Sunday, and my Mom was visiting me because I was going through one of my anxiety-ridden stages. We were at a café that was on the first floor of my college building. “When I was little, my family was so poor that my parents had to send me away to my grandparents’ house,” my Mom told me across the small table. ![]() The Role of Mothers as Portrayed in Please Look After Mom by Kyung-Sook Shin ![]()
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