A Shawt for sit
By Lotta Andrada
My mother brought us up simplehandedly it was a Herculean task for was so hoc
children She never finished lughschool but her delt hands adskillfully ked out loving for the four of She od
at knitting. That pided us over until the eldest got a diploma ortancia e
Mother wanted us all to get a college degree as she had sacrificed me to see the
Mother had a soft heart especially for Anita Anita was the young and the chilladas
envied her "Mother can you make a stw for me? Anita ked her mother "Yox, of counted the replies
was sickly and Mother would always malache Myster's womens severed her she
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and I am impatient and jealous. I never understood ory mother My Anita isi macam orber Mother and My
mother who had been a tral woman was much thinner
Anita, who is married now, had never stopped being pampered Head of concom for the
my nerves! I felt like shouting at her calling for name Mother old badly rose to her but I love the
100 much for her. Her fingers had lost the flexibility, thematis po todos lares the follow piased
My heart went out to her every time I saw her pantally knitting needles into the ya Mom, you to You're
old to work like knitting a shawl for Anita", I said to Mother My mother replied stop img for Asia I'm be
useless in this house I don't want to be cooped up all day That was before Amit ked her into the ha
I was beginning to hate Anita for being so callous Amitting the show might have been my See Mother, but never
showed any pain At the end of the da. she would look the land ok, a smile on her lips as she held it be
Knitting proved to be a slow process but Mother did not mund
When Ansta showed up one day to visit my mother, I scolded her for being so thoughts Attached my
and talked in a gentle tone "I did it for Mother That shawl is giving her reason to love She was wat my didn't you
notice? She felt so useless because she had nothing to do, no matter how all Mother is a person who prefers to live her
life worlong If she stops working, she will stop living, she said. Perhaps Anitawacht. I was being to understand
my mother
After listening to the story, answer the following questions: (3 pts, each)
1.What is the main idea of the story?
2. What are the ideas mentioned by Anita on why she requested a sawl from her mother?
3. Why is the narrator (middle child) jealous of Anita?
What is the worth of ideas of Anita's mother on why she keeps of work despite her weak condition
5. As you listen to the story, are you in favor of Anita's reason of making her mother being productive?
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