8th+-+Southern+Stories+-+Mama's+Shoes

5th Block Rico Kelley The reason that "Mama's shoes" constantly pops up when the narrator is describing the flood is so that she can say that she is just thinking about the shoes eventhough she clearly is not. By doing this, she is letting her emotions out but surpressing them at the same time! She Does this everytime she sees something that is disturbing. She may also do this so that she can act like she never saw anything, or she may also do this so that she can have something left of her mother to hold on to. Yet it is most likely that she does this so that she can say that she didn't see anything because she was looking at her "mama's sea apple green tenis shows.This is similar to how she goes "I don't know because I don't remember".

5th Block Carmina Escalante This theme of "Mama's sea green apple shoes" is kind of similar, or goes hand in hand with the mysticism and magical"ness" of the short story. It goes along with the theme that her mother is a mermaid, some beautiful mystical creature, not just a poor waitress. Her sea green apple shoes are her fins, human fins or shoes for the day, and then the shoes transform into beautiful shimmering flippers as the moon rises above.The shoes are just another mystical device the narrator uses while telling her story. It is also used as a symbol by the author and narrator. The sea green apple shoes symbolize everything her mother wanted to be, and it symbolized exactly how the narrator pictured her mother. The shoes symbolized a mermaid, free from sorrow, worry, and drunken men, and responsibilty, a beautiful creature. So, not only are the shoes a mystical device used by the narrator but they also symbolize that image she had of her mother.

5th Block Alyssa Zanone Instead of believing the narrator was purposely blocking the out the reality of what happened to her mother during the flood, I thought that the narrator was a young child. When a person is young, they often arent experienced enough to block out their imagination. The narrator may have been romantsizing what she really knew what wasn't true, but she also may have believed that is truly happened to her mother. She spent her early life entertaining herself, and instead of drawing this line between what was real, and what wasn't, she just crossed between these two worlds, one more amazing than another.