in-class writing

Discuss the tone of the story.(narrator’s perspective on her life and the magical style she uses to tell her son about it.)

As I read through the story, I found out that the night woman’s job is to have sex with “visitors”  and gain money from them. At the beginning of the story, the tone the narrator describes her son and her dead husband is gentle and gratified which shows that she loves them so much. When she sees her son under the sun rays, she feels that her son is growing and trustful. Her son is very young who even needs bed stories to go to sleep, so I can deduce the reason the narrator chooses this job is because her husband dies, and she still needs to gain money to raise her son. Normally, this kind of job is not acceptable by the public because it is kind of degrading (at least this is not a pleased job). And the one detail of the woman who smokes after she’s done of her job also shows the life for her is very depressive and hard. However, I believe the reason of she still does this job is her love to her son. 

It is hard to image how strong the love is for a mother, and it actually encourages the night woman to still be alive to face tomorrow bravely. Because her son is her only hope, and she wishes she could give her son a bright future such as gaining chances for her son to receive education. Sometimes, her son wakes up in the middle of the night and sees strange men in the house ( It is so poor that he and his mother lives in one-room house, and his mother does work right behind the curtain), his mother always tells him that is his father comes back from the heaven. I feel really sad when I read this part because I think that she doesn't want her son to know her really job which might because she does not want her son have any burden about her job. She also tries to benumb herself that those men are not visitors. And I am impressed about how strong this inferior woman is!