My Mother Pieced Quilts By Teresa Paloma Summary

Quilt Symbol In the story “My Mother Pieced Quilts” by Teresa Paloma and the “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, use imagery and figurative language to establish a quilt symbol for a mothers love for her family to illustrate their themes.
For the story “My Mother Pieced Quilts” is a symbol of the mothers love for her family because the author believes the mother glues the family together with the strong lover she has. On page fifty-five the author establishes “You were the river current caring the roaring notes” the reason the author added this sentence into the story is to imagine how much the mother cares and because it’s talking about the mothers deep affection for her family. On page fifty-five, line forty-six it states “Oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing into our past” which is a bit overwhelming. The reason the author acknowledged this is because she is thinking about the past with her mother, they have a great past so she is remembering all the thing they did. Plus she is giving the credits to her mom for sewing for twenty-five years as the story says.

The reason the author puts this in the story is because it is telling you how exciting they are by finishing the quilt, that it is all about love because the mother knotted it for a bit years and it still stands out.
Lastly, on page fifty-four, line twenty-one and twenty-two it states “galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in as you did us as night.” This acknowledges how the mother still tucks them in no matter what happen and that she will always care for them. There is a lot of things that the mother will do for her children no matter the