Love Medicine
Detail of beadwork from an Ojibwe medicine pouch
Sunday, August 26, 2007
Sarah Harrison tells her husband Daniel that she CANNOT take her daughter anymore. She is too stressed out and too much a burden. Jess also later asks herself if her mother hates her and questions if she is heartless. Can someone shed some light on this. ALSO what is her relationship with her father? DOES JESS ISOLATE HERSELF FROM HER PARENTS OR DO HER PARENTS isolate themselves from her?
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it seems like to me that jess has a good relatian ship with her dad becuase she can talk to him about things, such as being bad at school. it seems like her relatianship with her mom is a litlle torn apart
g i love you but its relationship :)....i think its that her mother doesn't know what to do with her daughter...i mean no one is taught how to react when your child is acting the way jess did. her father just takes a different approach to things.i think they both lover her just in defferent ways
i think their personalities have a lot to do with the way they act toward jess. her dads laid back and kind of a push over, so i think he gets over jess's misshaps at school a lot easier than sarah, who is more of the control freak, disciplinarian type. plus you've got to take into account the fact that sarah's dad was super strict on her. she was just raised differently.
I think the way her parents act towards Jess is a reflection of their culture and differences in their backgrounds, like Alex said. I also think that her father just doesn't understand Jess. He doesn't really get mad or punish her when she acts up at school not because he's a push over, but because he just doesn't even know what to do with her.
i think that Jess' parents act the way they do towards Jess is because of their Nigerian culture. Her mother acts very rude to her and does not show her love that she deserves, so i think that's a reason why Jess acts how she does
Both parents seem to have a "hands off" policy in terms of parenting, but then Sarah flips out when that doesn't work and wants to discipline strictly. Jess doesn't seem to have guidelines for what's ok, just punishment for what's not.
it seems like jess's parents accept her for who she is and deal with jess's social ineptitude at the beginning of the novel, whereas towards the end of the novel, they begin to become more and more detached from their daughter. i think that neither jess nor her parents are at fault for the rift in their relationship; TillyTilly is the obvious root of the problem, as she initiated jess's descent into insanity/possession.
i also think that Jess has a strong bong with her dad because she can talk to him about things and he won't reject her ideas. but with her mom, she sends her away when jess wants love and comfort. so the relationship with her parents are quite opposite with one another.
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