It May Take a Few Years, but You Will Figure Out Her Gift Somday

I read "What She Gave Me" by Anne Lamott. This memoir was very touching to me. Anne wrote about how her mother had died four years and how her mother was not a very motherly figure and she was angry her mother never taught her anything. She was always angry at her from a young age because she never taught her how to be a lady and she could never go to her to disuse anything of importance. Anne would always have to go to her father and disuse anything she needed to talk about or anything she just wanted to get off of her chest. What she did not realize until later on in life is her mother taught her a multitude of things but she never realized it until four years after her death. I liked the she disused and represented her mother throughout her writing. She depicted her mother in horrible ways by saying she was a slob and by saying she was a horrible and mean mother, but she wrote it in a way that made it seem from the heart and even though she did all of these horrible things to her, she was her mother and she would always love her. I also like the way she brought her own life with her son into describing her mother. She said how her son reminded her how she acted towards her mother at some points in her life and she also said how her son and mother look alike with their huge eyes. She stated all of this because even though she had shown so much hatred towards her mother early on in her passing that she now wants to reconsider everything and she her love towards her mother and how she will never be able to forget her mother. Anne also used great technique in the way she went about showing her love towards her. I like how she waited till the end of her memoir to state everything her mother taught her because she wanted that to be the last thing everyone read. She wanted to show her mother taught her many things that made her into the women she is today. Even though this memoir was all about Anne's mother, I think her main goal of this memoir was to show people that just because you do not realize what someone has taught you does not mean they did not teach you anything; it only means it may take you a few days, weeks, months, even years in Anne's case, but everyone teaches us something to make us into the person we are today whether we want to believe that or not.