how do you think shaka should be portrayed
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Presentation of Jackie from "My Mother Said I Never Should" Essay
Throughout the play we see Jackie portrayed in different ways, her characteristics change and we see her grow as a person. Jackie as a child was very rebellious and through her life faces many challenges. Firstly as a young mother then later with the loss of her mother.
As a young woman in her teens Jackie is very rebellious we first see this when Jackie tells Margaret that she has slept with her boyfriend. Jackie tries to make Margaret feel guilty and that it was all her fault that she had slept with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend parents allowed them to sleep together where as Margaret was against it, this is possibly going to make Jackie more likely to sleep with her boyfriend because it is against her mothers wishes. Jackie and her mother do not communicate well.
When Jackie wanted to tell Margaret she was on the pill Margaret had no idea because she had refused to talk about it and Jackie had seen the doctor on her own. This also shows Jackie's independent and determined spirit and the need to succeed on her own, especially when it comes to rising Rosie without her mothers help.
Although Jackie has to give Rosie up to her mother she is still very determined to finish art college because it is the one thing she can have and do well at without the help of her mother. As an older woman we see Jackle feeling a fallure, even though she is a very successful business woman. Her feeling of failure come from her past; giving up Rosle as a baby. "It doesn't matter how much you succeed afterwards, if you've failed once." Jackie has missed all of Rosles growing up and Margaret explains that she cannot make up those lost years, they have gone and passed now. "treats she's had with you." Jackle feels extremely guilty because her daughter has grown up and she has missed everything. Margaret tells jackle "those are my years" meaning she has looked after Rosie all these years and Jackle does not realise what she has missed until she goes to Venice with Rosie.