Finally, the novel tells that Posey is considered as a humorous, warm and has a motherly wisdom. These personalities are confirmed by Posey’s family.
“Her humor, warmth and motherly wisdom were attested to by her surviving family Albom 196.”
4.1.8 Brave
The term brave here will stand for two different things. The first, Posey Benetto is a brave person in stating her opinion and in standing for her beliefs.
The second, Posey is categorized as a brave person in standing and protecting for her children.
In a family, there will be always a time that husband and wife have different ideas, thoughts and arguments. Even, it can be a real fight among them
especially when both of them believe that they are correct and other sides are wrong. It will be broadened because the culture places a man as the one who
controls the family. Man thinks that he is the one who should rule the whole things, the decision maker while woman should just follow him.
They were blend of backgrounds and cultures, but if my family was a democracy, my father’s vote counted twice. He decided what we should
eat for dinner, what color to paint the house, which bank we should use, which channel we watched on our Zenith console black and white TV set
Albom 31. On the other hand, Posey Benetto always has her personal argument. She
will argue if she thinks something is wrong. She can defend her opinion with strong arguments. Chick sees this from the beginning of the story. The culture
difference between Posey and her husband becomes one thing that is always
argued except about kids and food. Len Benetto sees that he is the one who should decide whatever in their family, while Posey will fight against him if she finds
something wrong or improper. My mother was French Protestant, and my father was Italian Catholic, and
their union was an excess of God, guilt and sauce. They argued all time. The kids. Food. Religion. My father would hang a picture of Jesus on the
wall outside the bathroom and, while he was at work, my mother would move it somewhere less conspicuous. He would come home and yell,
“You can’t move Jesus, for Christ’s sake” and she would say, “It’s picture Len. You think God wants to hang by bathroom Albom 30?”
The other topic can be about Posey’s work once Len thinks that her work
is over loaded than what it should be. Len always says that she should pay more attention to the family by saying, “You could pay more attention, Posey Those
people at the hospital aren’t the only one who matter” Then Posey replies, “They’re sick Len. You want me to tell them I’m sorry but my husband needs his
shirt ironed Albom 58?” Posey argues about her job as a nurse which is so busy with the sick persons but Len, her husband does not like that. Len wants his wife
just do her job fast and at the time she should go home she is already at home. However, Posey thinks that the sick persons need more attention rather than just
give medicine. The children just become the audience of the fight between their parents.
They think that it will be just temporary, but it occurs every time until finally they get divorced.
For the first few months, we figured it was temporary. A spat. A cooling- off period. Parents fight, right? Ours did. My sister and I would lie at the
top of the staircase listening to their arguments, me in my white undershirt and she in her pale yellow pajamas and ballerina slippers Albom 58.
Moreover, Posey also manages herself to protect others and makes others feel safe to be around her. The first story comes from Chick’s experience in his
childhood. At that time Chick is still five years old. He and his mother are walking to a market. His mother is being called by the neighbor so they catch up
for a while but Chick is still walking around. Suddenly a German shepherd comes next to Chick and barks with loud sound. Chick is very frightened, screaming and
running into his mother. His mother asks about the problem then she goes to the dog and makes the best barking sound to make the dog scared. As a result the big
dog runs away. She marches me around the house. There is a dog. It howls again.
Awowwowowow I jump back. But my mother yanks me forward. And she barks. She barks. She makes the best barking sound I have ever heard
a human being make. The dog salls into a whimpering crouch. My mother turns. “You have to show them who’s the boss, Charley,” she says Albom
35.
There is also a story told by Chick about his mother protection on him. This happens when Chick goes to the library and he wants to borrow 20,000
Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne. The librarian tells that this book is too difficult for him. Posey comes and asks the librarian to give the book. She stands
up to defend her child. She does everything to show that nobody can underestimate her son. Then she makes the old librarian give the book to Chick
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