Evaluate why the following quotation evokes such intense emotion from Laurie, "This is the first time she called me mom"(355).
Laurie's strong emotion after hearing Megan call her mom for the first time stems from the lack of a close and secure bond with her own parents. Some synonyms for intimacy are closeness, familiarity, affection, and warmth. These qualities were not seen in the relationship between Laurie and her mom. In one of the later chapters of
Sorority Sisters Laurie is asked about how her parents met. She didn't know and had never asked them, but she did know all about the beginnings of her upstairs maid and her husband. Laurie was sent off to a boarding school as a young girl. Laurie asks the girls if they believed her parents even really loved her. When Ellen asks Laurie to be the guardian for Megan should anything happen to Ellen, Laurie is shocked. Laurie's style was to keep people at arms length distance. This characteristic is put to an immediate halt when Ellen dies and Megan becomes Laurie's girl. When Megan moves in, Laurie completely remodels her home making it look warm and friendly. They decide to buy a dog that they can raise together and save from the pound. At the funeral Laurie remembers as she talks about Megan," I don't expect her to. I don't expect anything, anything beyond the fact that I will love her and cherish her for the rest of my life. What she feels for me is out of my hands"(336). Megan was the perfect solution to a somewhat distant women who was yearning for love, and when Megan shared her love to Laurie in the simple three letter word "Mom" it was enough to break down all barriers and feel truly loved.
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