Gerenuk Tales

Q & A about "Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying"  Why/how do Ronnie and her “mom” exist so peacefully in the ending of this story? Throughout "Mothers, Lock up Your Daughters" we see the spirit known as "mom" try to infiltrate the minds of best friends Mini, Caroline, and Ronnie. Each of the girls initially is looking for a mother figure in their lives, so they welcome this spirit into their minds. All have their own struggles, and see this as a way to escape their lives to an extent. Eventually, Mini and Caroline start to see how wrong it is to have "mom" in their heads, and they force her to leave. Ronnie ends up carrying "mom" in her head and walking away completely from her previous life, ruining all chances of going back.  Even though the pure evil of the “mom” is described in previous places, in this final scene of the story Ronnie seems to be glad to have her controlling he...

Sentence Analysis of The Machine Stops “Dawn, midday, twilight, the zodiacal path, touched neither men’s lives not their hearts, and science retreated into the ground, to concentrate herself upon the problems that she was certain of solving.” (Forester, 59) “Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.” (Forester, 57) Both of these sentences reflect on a big part of the society that Forester describes in The Machine Stops , which is that people have gotten rid of practically all discomfort in their lives. I think one theme of this story is that while we complain about discomfort now and are always seeking ways to alleviate it. If we actually had a society where there was no discomfort, we would rapidly decline as a human race. Part of what makes us so successful is our ability to endure discomfort and grow through it. I think part of what we often associate with discomfort is change, including changing temperatures, emotions, and...