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In your opinion, does "My Only Gods" treat the girl's attachment to her mother as a healthy thing or as a problem? Provide evidence from the text to back up your answer.
Students should pay attention to the word choice Appachana uses to describe the relationship with the girl. Although the story uses a first-person narrator, who softens her descriptions of herself as a child, it's clear that the story presents the girl's praise of the mother as a desperate act of stability in a chaotic world.
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In what way is the mother in "My Only Gods" portrayed as godlike? What qualities does she have for the daughter? Is the father another god? Why or why not?
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