Being treated unfairly by White Woman

46 My telling can‟t hurt you in spite of what I have done and I promise to lie quietly in the dark-weeping perhaps or occasionally seeing the blood once more-but I will never again unfold my limbs to rise up and bare teeth 2009: 1. From the quotation above, Minha Mae wants to tell something to Florens. She does not want to see the blood more, means that she does not want to see any victim. The cruelty of her master is enough for herself and her daughter. She doesn not want her Master gives bad treatment for her daughter again and again. That all this time I cannot know what my mother is telling me. Nor can she knows what I am wanting to tell her. Mae, you can have pleasure now because the soles of my feet are hard as cypress 2009: 161. Florens describes that she does not know what her mother says about. Her mother also does not know that Florens also wants to tell something to her. Now, Florens has become an independent woman who can face all the things by herself. You stood there in those shoes and the tall man laughed and said he would take me to close the debt. I know Senhor would not allow it. I said you. Take you, my daughter. Because I saw the tall man sees you as a human child, not pieces of eight. I knelt before him 2009: 166. From the quotation above, Florens‟s mother describes when D‟Ortega offers slaves to pay his debt. Then Minha Mae bids Florens as the payment. Florens‟s mother has a reason why she offers her daughter. It is because she sees Jacob Vaark who has humanity rather than D‟Ortega. She describes that Jacob Vaark sees Florens as an ordinary child with broken shoes. It makes Jacob Vaark laugh when he looks Florens wear the broken shoes, it seems foolish for him. It was not a miracle. Bestowed by God. It was a mercy. Offered by a human. I stayed on my knees. In the dust where my my heart will remain each night and everyday until you understand what I know and long to tell you: to be given dominion over another is a hard things; to wrest dominion over another is a wrong thing; to give dominion of yourself to another is a wicked thing. Oh Florens. My Love. Hear a tua mae 2009: 166-167. 47 As a mother, Minha Mae does not want her daughter get bad treatment from their Master. She thinks that it is a mercy from God for all good bless that happen in her life. Even though it is very hard for Minha Mae to offer Florens to the other master, Minha Mae doesn‟t change her decision. In one side, she does not want to separate away with her daughter, but in the another side, she does not want to see her daughter get bad treatment from D‟Ortega. Minha Mae feels guilty because she cannot guard her and keep her. Even she offers her daughter to Jacob Vaark. She thought that it is the best way for herself and her daughter. Moore states that It follows that when he judges one of these action, which really is disapproved in his society, though approved in mine, to be wrong, this judgment of his will be just as true as my judgment that the same action was right: hence the same action really will be both right or wrong 1958: 68. The most people almost believe in somebody‟s judgments even though the action is not right. In this case, Florens judges her mother as an evil mother because she feels rejected from her mother. Florens judges his mother without knowing the motives of her mother offer herself to the other white. At the end of the novel, Minha Mae shows that she loves her daughter so much. Ironically until the end, Florens does not know the purpose of her mother offers herself to the other owner. In fact, Florens thinks that her mother is the same cruel with her master. Florens judges Minha Mae as an evil mother. She assumes that her mother just loves her baby boy that still in her hip. Florens feels abandon from her mother, but actually her mother wants a better life for her. From the experience above, the writer concludes that somebody must think positively to face his her