Krik Krak: Night Women

There are many things people do in order to secure the need of their family. In the story, Night Women, this is shown. In the story the mother, is a prostitute who does her business right next to her sleeping son in his bed. In order to keep her sons views safe, she has set excuses or plans for if he were to ever wake up, and also as to why she gets herself made up every night before bedtime. She tells him that she gets "made up" because she is waiting for the angels to come at night. The mother also says that if he wakes up and see then actions going on she would tell him that is was just his father visiting for the night. At this young age, the boy may not know any better but as he gets older he will put two and two together and make sense of what has been going on throughout his whole childhood. This is something that the mother is concerned about but being a prostitute to make money is something she must do. Are the mothers actions take a little to far in order to secure a decent life for her child? Are her actions acceptable in order to be able to put food on the table or is it just down right wrong? In the mothers eyes, she feels that these lies will save her son, at least while he is young, from knowing the real situation and what really had to go down in order for him to be able to live a stable life. From the boys perspective, if he was ever to wake up while his mother was in the be with another man, she would tell him it was his father. From a young age he would believe that this man who he woke up to one night having sex with his mother was his father. This would kill the boy inside as he grew up and became more sexually active realizing what his mother was and the fact that this man he seen was in deed not his father. Even though these little lies the mother used were to save him in the beginning, once the boy grew older, it would kill him as reality hit. For the mother, she took this sacrifice, but imagine if you were a parent. Imagine if you had no other means to support your family besides prostitution or robbery. What would you do? Save him now for the moment or let him know the truth and the struggle you go through?