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Blog Post Assignment 5

Quote 1: "When I was a senior in high school, she didn't ask where I would like to go to college. She didn't take me on a tour. I didn't even know people went on tours until I went to college and others told me they'd gone on them. I was left to figure it out on my own."

Question 1: The theme I perceived from this quotation was to appreciate your parents as well as to not take them for granted. Cheryl's mother did not expose her to the college life nor did she push her or motivate her to go. Most parents encourage one to go to college and to explore options.
Question 3: This quotation has a conflict between Cheryl and her mother. Cheryl faults her mother for not being an actual parent when it came to being concerned about her future.

Quote 2: "I never got to to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me."

Question 1: The theme that stood out to me for this particular quotation is to live for yourself, make yourself happy, and do what is best for you.
Question 2: This quotation characterizes Strayed's mother. Barbara was never the person she really wanted to be. She always did what others wanted her to do and did not consider her own wants. She just played a role of a mother, wife, or someone's daughter, but she was never Barbara.

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