Reflection

When reading this next section in the book about his grandmother, Lalla, it became apparent that she was a unique character.  I took a few different lines from the book that describe the relationship Lalla had with her children and other friends in her life.  The first line is taken from the part where it talks about her day after she is down milking the cows in the morning, “The rest of the day would be given over to gallivanting-social calls, lunch parties, visits from admirers, and bridge.  She also brought up her two children”(116).  I found this line interesting because out of all the things Lalla could do with the rest of her day, raising her children was an addition to the list, almost as if it was supposed to mean, oh yeah…her two children.  Then next line I took talked about how other people viewed her parenting skills.  “For most of her life children flocked to Lalla, for she was the most casual and irresponsible of chaperones, being far too buys with her own life to oversee them all” (117).  This line was interesting to me because it seems to me that Lalla always has to be busy doing something that is self-stimulating.  That she is always on the look out for herself first, and then everything and everyone else follows after.  This just seems like another one of those things that is opposite from what is normally expected, like we talked about in class the other day.  You would think that a mother would put her children before herself, and not the other way around.