• Very stable and ordinary family.
• Father was Swedish.
• Mother was the backbone of the family she was fierce and stern.
• The passion of his mother’s life was to protect her family.
• Grandmother was anything but fierce she was very unsatisfied.
• Grandmother became very irritable and difficult she started seeing things and moved in to their home for six months before they tried to move her to a nursing home. The two sisters and one uncle disagreed about placing her in a home but one brother came and witnessed what was happening and agreed to place her in a nursing home.
• The grandmother died but he was so scared to see her he didn’t even look at her at the funeral.
• His mother is now going through what his grandmother did and he is there for her taking care of her and listening to her endless stories.
As Anthony watched his mother care for his grandmother he witnessed how determined his mother was. How she almost “destroyed her health”. I believe it influenced him to be the same way to his mother when she was dying even though it hurt him to see her once a fierce women to weighing 92 pounds and strapped in a chair. I think it made him want to be there for his mother as much as she was for hers. Anthony’s mother was a very good role model and he has changed his attitude because of her.
Hi Kayde,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing. I like the fact that you bring in and highlight specific examples from the text, but toward the end you do provide some kind of analysis. It is also worth noting that because Brandt was only a young teen when his grandmother fell ill, was because he was so distant. When his mother falls ill, he has time to mature and understand the situation.