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What is the central theme of Julia Alverez's poem, "The Dusting?"

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Posted by pmitch8080 on Monday September 28, 2009 at 5:14 AM and tagged with "dusting", julia alvarez, julia alverez, theme.

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  1. manasvikulshrestha
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    I think the central theme of the poem is that the girl wants to be better than her mother. she wants to leave her imprints everywhere while she considers that her mother performs all meaningless jobs and remains anonymous. Poem emphasizes on the fact that how children fail to appreciate the work their parents do for them and they always want to be a step ahead of them. After all, had her mother not done dusting she would not have time to explore her ideas. she wants to dust away the traditions of her family and be famous.

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    http://www.artistrue.com/details/Essays/ENC2-Dusting.pdf

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    Posted by manasvikulshrestha on Wednesday October 7, 2009 at 2:07 PM