Gonzalez Kristal
After reading The Big Mama Stories, by Shay Youngblood, I learned that family is the most important thing in the world. Big Mama was not the blood mother of the young narrator, Rita, yet she kept her and her brother and raised them as her own. Throughout the stories Rita is understand history and traditions, there is a unity between friends and family. For example, in the story Independent Women, Aunt Mae taught Rita that you can be single and still be successful. Rita said; “I wanna to be like Aunt Mae, I wanna be independent so every day be like the fourth of July”. Rita looked up to all her mothers’ that helped her grow up. This was important to me because not only in African American cultures is family a unity, but as well as in other cultures. In my culture family is strong and sticks together through thick and thin, this is how it is shown in The Big Mama Stories.
