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The Sky is Gray

In the story “The Sky is Gray”, by Ernest J. Gaines, the typical boundaries of a mother and son relationship are tested with the sacrifices they endure. The story moves from the image of Octavia as a mother and later a leader teaching James to survive. She teaches him to survive in the society surrounding them through many different lessons of life. The lessons that Octavia teach James are imminent for the survival of an African-American family facing minimal opportunity and hardships without a man in the family. Octavia shows James how to survive in life by not showing weakness, making hard decisions, and never letting anything or anyone lower your pride.

Throughout James’s life it is clear that he has learned from his mother that if he wants to survive he cannot show any weakness. It is clear that the story surrounds James growing up, and that he has already learned a lot from what he has gone through in the past. The story implies James has already been shown that sacrif...

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