“If it wasn’t for you I wouldn’t be here! None of this would have happened!…I would have been free! I should have dumped you in an orphanage the day you were born! You’re the millstones around my neck!” (Roy 240).
Ammu’s abusive language is the base of her children’s future problems. If my mom were to tell me I was the millstone around her neck, I would too be emotionally scarred and completely withdrawn like Estha and Rahel and would definitely try to run away. Ammu takes no responsibility for her actions, but rather deflects her anger and blame on her innocent children. Ammu’s selfishness and lack of maturity are shown in the quote above, as she is more willing to hurt her children than to own up to her own actions. Estha and Rahel are not only scarred from these harsh words, but will probably always wonder what they could have done to prevent their mother from thinking of them as millstones. Like their mother says, certain actions are careless words can make a person love you less, so I’m sure her children are wondering what they have done to make Ammu love them less. After calling children millstones around one’s neck, there is no going back. Nothing she could say or do would ever make her children forget about what she had said and erase the effects that those words will have on them in the future. Think before you speak, immature Ammu.
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