Question

"Never having enjoyed, to any considerable extent, her soothing presence, her tender and watchful care, I received the tidings of [my mother’s] death with much the same emotions I should have probably felt at the death of a stranger."

Answer 1

Answer:

A Child's True Feeling about His Careless Mother

Explanation:

in his work, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the American abolitionist, recounts his miserable life as a slave. In this excerpt, Douglass reveals the very personal angle to his pathetic life. A mother-son bond is sweetest and the most scared, yet he received no love and affection from his mother. Douglass has been denied 'soothing presence' and watchful care' that every child is entitled to receive. He, therefore, feels no close and passionate emotion upon the news of his mother's death. Though nature creates human relationship, it is love and care that cements the bonding and it the lack of it that makes human familiar or stranger. For Douglass, his mother was no more than a stranger. In life, his mother was like a non-existent entity, and in death she remains the same.