Mother Forgive Kidd Analysis

Although at times it may be tough to forgive, Kidd emphasizes the importance of forgiving your family members regardless of actions in the past to live a positive life. Forgiving others is essential for your personal growth. Your experience of someone who has hurt you is nothing more than a thought or feeling that you carry around. When Lily was only four years old, she made a tragic mistake of accidentally killing her mother. Lily suffers immense guilt for being responsible for the death of her own mother. At night, Lily often dreams of dying and being sent to heaven to visit her mother. Lily says, “Mother, forgive. Please forgive” (Kidd 3). Here the author shows us the wish for forgiveness of the main character. Lily later comes to realize she should not feel remorse because she was not aware of what she was doing …show more content…
We tend to remember the undesirable actions of others which impacted us and made us feel bad. Forgiveness is the act of overcoming the feeling of resentment or revenge for the person who has done wrong actions. In Lily’s situation, Lily pleads for her father’s forgiveness due to the death of her mother. Lily has an especially tough time trying to live past her mother’s death. Lily and her father never had a strong relationship as a father and daughter should. Lily feels sorrow from her mother’s death but also would appreciate forgiveness from her father as well. Lily feels unloved because of the cruel ways her father treats her. The first example of Lily begging for forgiveness from her father was when A second example of Lily asking for forgiveness from her father was in the end of the book when Lily says to her father, “I’m-I’m sorry I left like I did” (Kidd 295). Lily is wanting forgiveness from her Father because Lily ran away from home. T. Ray had a hard time accepting her forgiveness but in the end, he finally forgives her at