The narrator is clearly struggling throughout the story, as she is an only mother raising a child on her own. The fact she is raising a child alone makes her a somewhat strong character and independent. No one else is mentioned to help her raise her son, which also can make her seem quite lonely, and it also means she has to figure everything out herself. She is clearly trying her best to raise her son the right way, but she has clearly not been strict enough as her son just treats her as he wants to. Examples of that are when he is lying about his whereabouts “I remember once he was supposed to have gone on a field trip, so I asked him what did you see on the field trip, honey. And he shrugged and said land formations, volcanic rock, ash, they showed us where there used to be a big lake a million years ago, now it’s just a desert. He looked me in the eyes and went on talking. Then I got a note from the school the next day saying they wanted permission for a field trip, could he have permission to go.” (Page 165, line 18-24).
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