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    A Shawl For Anita

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    This story is about a mother who raised her three children single-handedly after never finishing high school. Though frail, she supported the family through knitting. The youngest child, Anita, asks her mother to knit her a shawl despite the mother's failing health. The narrator is frustrated by Anita's lack of concern, but Anita explains that knitting the shawl gives her mother purpose and a reason to live, as being idle was making her waste away. The narrator begins to understand her mother prefers living through working, even on small tasks.

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    A Shawl For Anita

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    This story is about a mother who raised her three children single-handedly after never finishing high school. Though frail, she supported the family through knitting. The youngest child, Anita, asks her mother to knit her a shawl despite the mother's failing health. The narrator is frustrated by Anita's lack of concern, but Anita explains that knitting the shawl gives her mother purpose and a reason to live, as being idle was making her waste away. The narrator begins to understand her mother prefers living through working, even on small tasks.

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    grade 7 english 3rd quarter

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    This story is about a mother who raised her three children single-handedly after never finishing high school. Though frail, she supported the family through knitting. The youngest child, Anita, asks her mother to knit her a shawl despite the mother's failing health. The narrator is frustrated by Anita's lack of concern, but Anita explains that knitting the shawl gives her mother purpose and a reason to live, as being idle was making her waste away. The narrator begins to understand her mother prefers living through working, even on small tasks.

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    A Shawl For Anita

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    Claudene Gella
    This story is about a mother who raised her three children single-handedly after never finishing high school. Though frail, she supported the family through knitting. The youngest child, Anita, asks her mother to knit her a shawl despite the mother's failing health. The narrator is frustrated by Anita's lack of concern, but Anita explains that knitting the shawl gives her mother purpose and a reason to live, as being idle was making her waste away. The narrator begins to understand her mother prefers living through working, even on small tasks.

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    "A Shawl for Anita"

    by: Lolita Andrada

    My mother brought us up single-


    handedly. It was an extraordinary task
    for a woman so frail, dealing with three
    adolescent children. But she managed.
    She never finished high school, but her
    deft hands had skilfully eked out a
    living for the four of us. She was good
    at knitting. That tided us over until the
    eldest got a diploma of teaching. Then
    she put up a sari-sari store to send the
    other children to college. Mother
    wanted us all to start a college degree
    and she had sacrificed much to see us
    through.

    Mother had a soft heart - especially


    for Anita. Anita was the youngest, and
    I, being the middle child, had always
    envied her. She was sickly and Mother
    willingly indulged her. My sister's
    whimpers never irked her. She was
    ever so gentle with her when I
    impatient and jealous. I never
    understood my mother.
    My mother who had always been a
    frail woman was much thinner now.
    Anita who was married by now had
    never stopped being pampered. Her
    lack of concern for our mother's failing
    health was getting on my nerves. I felt
    like shouting at her, calling her names
    when I heard her ask Mother to knit a
    shawl for her. Mother could hardly
    refuse, but I knew that the task was
    just too much for her. Her fingers had
    lost their flexibility; rheumatic pain
    told on her knuckles that felt a million
    pins pricking. My heart went out to her
    every time I saw her painfully the
    knitting needles into the yarn.

    The rest of us did not want to see


    Mother lift a finger. She was too old to
    work, and we wanted to save her the
    burden of doing even the lightest
    household chores. Mother said she felt
    useless being cooped up in the house
    all day, doing nothing. That was before
    Anita sweet talked her into knitting
    her shawl. I was beginning to hate
    Anita for being so callous.
    Knitting the shawl might have been
    an agony for Mother, but she never
    showed any pain. At the end of the day,
    she would look at her handiwork, a
    smile on her lips as she held it against
    her. Knitting proved to be a slow
    process, but Mother didn't mind, I did
    and when Anita showed up one day to
    visit Mother I scolded her for being so
    thoughtless.

    Anita touched my arm and in a


    gentle voice said, "I did it for Mother.
    That shawl is giving her reason to live.
    She was wasting away, didn't you
    notice? She felt so useless because she
    had nothing to do, no matter how
    small. Mother is one person who
    prefers to live her life working. If she
    stops working, she will stop living."

    I nodded my head. Perhaps Anita


    was right I was beginning to
    understand my mother.

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