Reading these stories hasn’t changed the way I feel about poetry I still enjoy reading meaningful poetry however some of these stories are a little excessive like the selfish grandmother driving herself and her family straight to their deaths although I feel like the dad should have put his foot down and kept driving to their destination that whole situation could have been avoided. or like the king and how he that the whole situation while looking for who killed the king, not realizing he had done exactly what was trying to be avoided he killed the king married his mom, and had a baby tragic. When we read the necklace that woman was ignorant, self-centered, and prideful. out of all the stories I understood the mother the most not because of the abortion but of how it affects a person after losing a child because of all the things she describes she would not be able to do and things that were taking away all your left with is what I would have been doing imagining how they would have looked, or even behaved even though abortions are hard to deal with so is losing a child.
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Michelle, the prompt is asking about your response to poems, not to the stories. I agree with you that “the mother” is an especially powerful poem. The speaker takes readers into her thought processes as she so honestly tries to articulate what the abortions mean to her.