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A Shawl For Anita
A Shawl For Anita
A Shawl For Anita
Narrator: Anita’s mother is a single parent. Anita has 2 sisters, Anita is the youngest, Lolita is
the middle and the eldest. Anita asked her mother to knit her a shawl. But her mother could
hardly refuse.
Narrator: Anita’s Mother is a nurture mother that always working just for the sake of her
children. She always cared for Anita because Anita is a sickly child. Lolita never wanted to her
mother lift a finger but knitting a shawl have been an agony for her mother.
Mother: No Lolita…
Narrator: when Anita married she only showed up one day to visit their mother and Lolita
scolded anita for being so thoughtless
Anita: I did it for mother. That shawl is giving her reason to live she was wasting away, didn’t
you notice? She fell so useless because she had nothing to do, no matter how small. Mother is
one person who prefers to live her life working. If she stops working she will stop living.