Because Mother’s Day is this Sunday I decided now was the perfect time to do a Top 5 Wednesday topic from April 2016, Top 5 Mothers/Maternal Figures in Books. I decided that I would only include mothers or mother figures who are present for much of the character’s life and who appear in the story so I’m not including any deceased mothers or at least mothers who are dead when/before the story begins.
5. Sally Jackson from Percy Jackson and the Olympians
I wish I could place her higher on the list, but there is one problem I have with Sally. That being she isn’t there in the plot as much as I would have liked. Her son does have a good reason not to be at home being a demi-god and all. However, even if she isn’t always in the story, we can learn from how Percy talks about her that Sally is an awesome mother. Every year she makes her son a blue (his favorite color) birthday cake, and when she came home from the candy shop where she worked she would bring Percy home blue candy.
4. Michelle Benoit from Scarlet
Like Sally, Michelle is alive in the story but doesn’t appear in it very often. However, Michelle is a very important character (Her disappearance is what kicks off the plot) Even if she isn’t physically there, like Percy with his mother, Scarlet holds Michelle , who had raised Scarlet since her mother left her father who had fallen off the wagon, in high esteem. The reader can learn what kind of person Michelle is by looking at the independent and logical granddaughter she raised.
3. Razo’s and Rina’s mother from The Books of Bayern
After her husband abandoned her and her many children, this woman had to take matters into her own hands to keep them all alive. Rina remembers her mother having a contest to see which child could collect the most supplies for the first winter after their father left. She never actually gave out the prize though, but the family did survive the winter. Razo’s and Rina’s mother isn’t exactly the most active character in the story, but like with Michelle, we can see what a good person she was through the children she raised, Razo and Rina, who are both heroes in their own right.
2. Nadine Merrick from Angel Sister
Nadine wasn’t in an easy situation. He father-in-law hates her, her relationship with her own father is very strained, her husband is drinking much more often than he used to, she has three daughters to raise during The Great Depression, and her middle child has just brought home an abandoned little girl. Nadine continued to take care of her daughters and takes in the lost little girl as if she were her own so Nadine is both a mother and a maternal figure at the same time and she is amazing.
1. Aunt Ba Ba from Chinese Cinderella
This woman is at the very top of my list for many reasons, but one of them is the fact that she was real. The things she did for her nieces and nephews actually happened and I am amazed. This woman never married and ended up raising the children of her brother who took care of their physical needs, but that was about it, leaving Ba Ba to look after the children.
*Note* Top 5 Wednesdayis a Goodreads group where blogger/vloggers post about a bookish topic every Wednesday. You can check it out here. https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/118368-top-5-wednesday
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