Everything beautiful in Mamas life was destroyed and stories could not distract her from reality. Years later Mama still obtains the same philosophy as she explains to Raami that "Stories are not. They're made up––so I thought––to explain what is to painful to say in simple plain language"(222). In Mama's childhood stories were not there to help her through the difficulties of loosing "Everything and everyone" so she no longer believes that stories are beneficial. Now, Mama deems stories as a negative distraction from reality or an explanation of "what is to painful to say in simple plain language". After the agony of loosing everything that mattered to her Mama didn't recognize the purpose of imagining and telling stories if they were not able to help her to survive. She lives so much of her life under the principle of survival that, unlike Papa, she wasn’t able to truly embrace her imagination. Ultimately because Papa possesses a childhood of love he was able to live with a free imagination whereas Mama is thwarted from the appreciation of stories and the
Everything beautiful in Mamas life was destroyed and stories could not distract her from reality. Years later Mama still obtains the same philosophy as she explains to Raami that "Stories are not. They're made up––so I thought––to explain what is to painful to say in simple plain language"(222). In Mama's childhood stories were not there to help her through the difficulties of loosing "Everything and everyone" so she no longer believes that stories are beneficial. Now, Mama deems stories as a negative distraction from reality or an explanation of "what is to painful to say in simple plain language". After the agony of loosing everything that mattered to her Mama didn't recognize the purpose of imagining and telling stories if they were not able to help her to survive. She lives so much of her life under the principle of survival that, unlike Papa, she wasn’t able to truly embrace her imagination. Ultimately because Papa possesses a childhood of love he was able to live with a free imagination whereas Mama is thwarted from the appreciation of stories and the