Allison's character mama faced many horrific obstacles throughout her long hard life. She was extremely ill as a child and was ejected thr

ough a car windshield when she was nine months pregnant, which in return forced her into labor while she was unconscious. Not only did she survive those two events but she also overcame breast and uterus cancer. Allison depicts mama as a survivor but it did take its toll on her. As a result of her hardened survival skills she became very unrefined and brash woman. "Say anything but begin it with Jesus and end it with *censored*,"(389) clearly shows how crude she can be. She also had to set aside her own desires in order to survive. "Never want what you cannot have,"(390) was her rule for survival and her way of dealing with the bad hand life had dealt her.

The hardships and abuse that the mother and daughter faced, no matter how hard it was, brought the two together. The daughter would rub her mother's bruised f

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Approximate Word count = 556
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)