Although everyone has different experiences and no one life is the same, we all live with a certain unspoken right to have a full and normal life. We see harmful and hurtful and even unimaginable things happening around us and we feel bad, but in the back of our minds we know that our own life doesn’t have a place or allow for these experiences to happen to us personally. If by chance something of this nature, something like cancer or a tumor, was to happen to us or our direct family we feel that our life now is different. That it is not longer really our life anymore.
That our life has been taken away and a new and foreign life has taken its place. From then on we have to decide if we are going to totally forget what has happened before this time, what beliefs and values that we held on to so closely in our old life, or are we going to hold on to them just as tightly in an effort to combine these two lives that we now have. The people in this story went through this mental process when they heard the devastating news of their child’s illness. The Husband and Mother had to accept and determine how they were going to handle this new life that was forced upon them.
The Mother in this story knows that the life she is now being forced to live is completely foreign to her but to admit that would be the end of her familiar life. She at first tries to become those “sweat pant mom’s” but then soon realizes, with the help of her outside friends, that this new life is inevitable that that she has to do it her own way. One of the pivotal issues throughout this whole story is how the mother handles their situation as opposed to how the husband chooses to handle it. From the very beginning the Husband clings to the advice and expertise of the doctors and experienced parents.
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He takes the route that everyone is expected to take in this situation. He keeps insisting that the Mother take notes about their experience and then write about it like she would with one of there fictional stories. However, the Mother sees their new life from different eyes than the Husband and many of those around her. It seems that the mother not taking notes is part of her effort to take ownership of this new life. She writes fiction and if she starts taking notes and writing about this it will seem fictional and prevent her from taking ownership or having any semblance of control.
To her this is an “unsayable” life, she feels that she cannot even begin to condense it down to something any other person could read or understand. Throughout the whole story the Mother listens to the doctor’s views and recommendations as well as the other parents experience and advice. She listens and she processes the information all the while never forgetting her own views and beliefs that she had before they found the tumor. She continues to stand on her own because once she blends in she will have no fighting power against the destruction these other families have seen.
When the mother chooses not to do the chemo she is not giving, she is fighting even harder. She has heard what the children have gone through because of the chemo and she sees the devastating aftermath of what is left of the families now. She sees that facing this disease head on brings both the cancer and worry. The Mother believes that it is not the worry that is killing the families but the cancer itself. She states “But if all we have to do is worry, …every day for a hundred years, it’ll be easy. It’ll be nothing. I’ll take all the worry in the world, if it wards off the things itself”.
In her motherly eyes the “club” that these families have formed is one of devastation and hurt. Unlike the Husband, she sees that this club will drain her of any hope of redemption for their suffering. The Mother only has eyes for her child. She perceives the differences between herself and the other cancer parents, even the differences between her and her husband. However, she fights against becoming “people like that”; she clings to her previous belief system and decides to go another route. The Mother realizes that she is not the only one who sees what she sees; she is just the only one there who does.
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This is shown when her friend visits and states “Everyone’s so friendly here. Is there someone in this place who isn’t doing all this airy, scripted optimism – or are people like that the only people here? ” The Mother realizes that type of personality is required here and if she doesn’t get out soon it will engulf her has well. As the story progresses so does the Mothers individuality and courage. She feels for the other cancer parents and doesn’t see them as bad; but once she finds her “lucky break” from this new life she takes it and doesn’t look back.
