Elizabeth and Karen The Depiction of the Bond Between the Main Characters and Their Mothers

44 Ada chuckles. Lucy doesn’t think it’s amusing. She starts to put the cake in a box. LUCY. What about you? Are you going to love this baby or not? ADA . Well, there’s no baby to speak of yet. What’s the next step? LUCY. We’re meeting a woman on Monday. She’s six months pregnant. ADA. And she just now decided to give up the baby? LUCY. No. apparently she’s already turned down several couples. ADA. Turned down? Who’s approving who? There’s an argument that you’d be doing her favor. LUCY. Nobody is doing anybody a favor, mom. Everyone stands to win. A beat. Ada is not so convinced. ADA. There’s so much positioning with everything nowadays. Motherhood should be a much simpler thing than this. Lucy can’t believe what she has just heard. She fights back her rage and tears. ADA CONT’D. Oh Lucy – I’m sorry. That was a horrible thing to say. I’m sorry, Lu. I’m an idiot. Forgive me, please. I’m sorry. She means it. LUCY. You really wear me out, mom. I love you – but between my daughter and I things will be different. I’ve promised myself that already. Ada is hurt. ADA. Thank you for that, Lucy. Garcia, 2009: 12-13 The scene above happens in Lucy’s bakery, where she and her mother work together as bakers. Ada asks Lucy about her decision to adopt a baby. They argue because Ada needs to be convinced that the idea of adopting a baby is not from Lucy’s husband. As it is seen in the dialogue that Lucy is able to say things she wants to say to her mother. Lucy is also able to ask for her mother support for her decision in this. Ada supports Lucy, but Ada wants to assure Lucy in order not to make a wrong decision. The end of the dialogue above shows that Ada says something wrong and hurts her daughter and she apologizes. She knows what she has just said about simple motherhood hurts her daughter, who cannot conceive a baby on her own, so she is sorry for hurting her daughter. Although they both end the dialogue with arguing each 45 other but eventually they are still able to manage their relationship and make a positive mother-daughter bond. Ada tries to protect Lucy from any regrets of Lucy’s decision in adopting a baby. She is afraid that the woman whose baby Lucy is going to adopt is playing some kind of joke with Lucy, considering this woman is still very young. INT. LUCY’S BAKERY – DAY After hours. Lucy and her mother clean up behind the counter. ADA. And who is the father? LUCY. She won’t say. ADA. But she knows who it is. LUCY. I don’t know. Yes. Why wouldn’t she? Ada shrughs. A pause. ADA. How old is she? LUCY. She’s twenty one – and she’s already a senior at Cal Tech. ADA. And she’s had all the medical tests and everything? LUCY. Mom – you’re putting me in a bad mood. ADA. When can I meet her? LUCY. Never. ADA. I thought that was one of her conditions. One of her many conditions. Lucy says nothing. ADA CONT’D. I bet if I met her I’d be able to see right through her. LUCY. What? Regarding what? ADA. Whatever it is she’s playing at. Garcia, 2009: 60-61 The dialogue above shows that Ada actually tries to warn Lucy about the woman who is about to give her baby for Lucy to adopt. Ada is afraid and she needs to be convinced more that this woman does not just play with Lucy who really wants a baby to adopt. Lucy does not let Ada meet this woman because she knows that her mother might ruin everything because of her being too worried. In the dialogue above, Lucy is even able to be honest to say that her mother has put her in bad mood. This is unlike the bond of the previous character, Karen and her mother. 46 No matter how many times Lucy and Ada argue and disagree with each other, Ada still has her dau ghter’s back. When the woman decided not to give her baby for Lucy, Lucy is disappointed. She thinks she does not deserve to be a mother. Instead blaming Lucy for the wrong hope, Ada calms her and holds her hand. INT. LUCY’S HOUSE – NIGHT Lucy is lying down on a couch, depleted. Ada sits next to her, holding her hand. LUCY. You were right. If God wanted me to be a mom he would have made me a mom. ADA. Lucy, I never said that. Garcia, 2009: 95 Lucy is very sad after knowing that the woman cancels to let her adopt the baby. She thinks that she does not deserve to be a mother. However, Ada is there for Lucy and calms her. Ada holds Lucy’s hand and does what a mother has to do when her daughter needs her. Lucy eventually gets another baby to adopt. The baby is Elizabeth’s baby girl. Elizabeth dies when she gives a birth. Lucy learns how to raise a baby and she finds out that living with a baby is not as easy as she thinks. Lucy cries for help when she cannot find the solution why her adoptive baby daughter cannot stop crying, so the one she calls is her mother. INT. LUCY’S HOUSE – NIGHT The BABY cries desperately at the top of her lungs. Lucy tries to comfort her, holding her and dancing around. Lucy is crying too, exhausted. The doorbell rings. Lucy opens the door for her mother. LUCY. I can’t do it, mom. I can’t. Ada takes the baby and walks toward the bedroom. Lucy collapses in a chair, exhausted. Garcia, 2009: 99 47 Lucy is exhausted. She just figures out that raising a baby is not easy. She even cries because she does not know how to stop the baby from crying. Ada comes and takes