This week in class we spoke about two story. The first story was called Indigo. It's about a 11 year old girl who enjoys playing the flute, even though she's horrible at it. Indigo plays her flute daily, disturbing her mother and everyone in the neighborhoods peace. When her mother offers to pay for flute lessons Indigo turns down the offer. Indigo thought that by turning down the offer her mother would be happy. You see Indigo's mother paid her older children to have musical lessons, I guess Indigo thought by turning her mothers offer down there would be a win win; her mother would save money and indigo would be able to play the flute how she pleased. Indigo is very stubborn yet very determined. She doesn't let peoples opinion of her music affect her, I admire that. She reminds me a lot of Scout from to kill a mockingbird.
The other story we read was called night woman. The character in this story is a single mother who sleeps with married men to support herself and son. It would be too easy to simply classify this women as a prostitute. Seeing that she doesn't get picked up from a corner or alley by strangers. She calls the men she sleeps with suitors, and they always come bearing gifts; some even bring gifts for her son. So I'd say that she's a mistress. Her son is too young to understand what his mother is, whenever he catches his mom in the act she makes his believe he's dreaming or that his father was brought back from heaven for a visit.
The characters in these two stories are very much alike because of their stubbornness. Indigo is stubborn because she insists on learning to play the flute on her own. Despite how everyone, even her own mother, tells her how awful she is. The mistress is stubborn because she refuses to work at a day job where other women making sure that work never runs out. The mistress isn't necessarily proud of what she does, but she enjoys the stability it brings her. She doesn't have to worry about loosing her job because work has ran out.
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