How to Talk to Your Mother (Notes)

In this story, there is an experimental strategy. The story is written in reverse chronolgical order. I thought that this was a neat idea, because she looks at her life from where she is now, and write something that was important for most of the years in reverse order. As you read the story, you see that she was pregnant, and is like I am pregnant, what should I do? Then you learn that she has had three abortions and is not married. She was like in her 40s at the beginning of the story, and ended the story with no kids, and no husband. I liked that the story was written like this, because you can't guess what is going to come next, you're wondering oh my gosh what is she going to say next.

You also heard the way that her mother had talked to her as she was growing up, "That's no way to talk to your mother," is a phrase heard throughout the story. You can tell that it was written right after her mother's death, and that she and her mother were kind of close. Her mother lived with her, and she took care of her mother. I thought the ending was good, when she went back to her mother's womb.