Transformation from Innocence to Knowledge in Mother Comes of Age by Driss Chraibi
Driss Chraibi's Mother Comes of Age is an exceptional novel about an Arab woman seeking knowledge of the world. Despite the main character's age, the novel can be described as a bildungsrowan because of her personal growth. This woman develops and matures from a secluded, uneducated woman to an informed activist, proving she is capable of anything. The novel begins with the mother ignorant to modern society. Junior emphasizes this. "No one had ever taught her anything. She was an orphan at six months"(23). "At the age of thirteen, she was married off to a man rolling in money and in morality whom she had never seen. He would have been the age of
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The mother begins to rebel against tradition by taking an active role in educating and freeing herself. Through her radio, telephone and trips out with her sons she develops her own opinions about the world, the war, and the domination and seclusion of woman. She loses her innocence as a result to her new knowledge and experience. In the second part of this novel the mother's metamorphous is unmistakable. She becomes an activist for the war, and even attempts to confront one of the great generals. It is at this time that she relates the independence of Morocco with the independence of herself. She resents her husband's control over her life and immediately stands up to him. She explains her unhappiness to him.
"If my soul, by some stroke of a magic wand, emerged right here in front of me, I'd be the first one to be surprised. I wouldn't be able to recognize it. I think it would look like an idiot child with a deformed head. I would say to it, 'Push your ears aside so I can see your lovely eyes!' My soul would look at me without saying a word, without a smile, without even comprehending me"(94).
Her husband refuses to believe that she has rebelled against him without Nagib's influence. She responds to this by asking "Was it Nagib who gave birth to me or I to him?"(95) It was with difficulty but her husband accepts his new wife. This empowers the mother to begin school, cut her hair, smoke, even learn to
In addition, the author helps the reader understand the selfishness of the mother when the reader finds out she have stole the Persian Carpet “several months before” (230) the divorce and puts the blame on Ilya, the poor blind man. Furthermore, the visit of the children is supposed to signal a fresh start for the family. The mother even emphasizes she wants the girls to come “live with [them]” (229). Yet again, even if they meet in order to reunite, characterized by a situational irony, they see themselves separated because of her mother selfish decisions.
* The author gives the story from two different perspectives one from the mother’s perspective, Ruth, and the other from the son’s perspective, James.
Her Mother seemed to be more put together than her father at times, even getting a job at one point helping the family out. Though her mother was a hedonist and did not contain the motherly love and sacrifice for her kids, this job helped Jeanette’s future. She helped grade papers which increased her knowledge of the outside world and “...the world was making a little more sense” as she read the papers and projects of her mother’s students (Walls 205). Her parents had such an opposition to the outside world that she hadn’t gotten every aspect of
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