Twyla And Roberta's Friendship

1. Describe Twyla and Roberta’s friendship. What do they have in common and how are they different when they first become friends?
Twyla and Roberta’s friendship is one that happens due to both their mothers not being able to adequately care for their children. It is a friendship that happened by chance. To start, these two girls have a few things in common. They both have mothers that cannot take care of them so they end up at a shelter where they are eight years old, lonely, and scared. Also, they both were failing in their studies at St. Bonny’s and were ignored by everyone else in the orphanage. They were both ignored because they did not have parents who had died, but instead parents who didn’t take care of them. As well, they both
At the first time they meet, the two immediately inquire about each other’s lives and act as close friends. The social forces are that there is the two of them together without anyone else and they only know the situations that each other has faced in the past. In the second meeting, the social forces shape their lives so that they are hostile towards each other. The social forces are the different opinions on whether the schools should be integrated or not and the rights for families that are affected by this standing. Roberta wants the school to be integrated so her kids don’t have to go to a school out of the neighborhood while Twyla does not see the issue with her child going to an out of neighborhood school. In the third meeting, the social forces have allowed them to make peace with each other and have maturity. They understand what they have done wrong and how their lives are similar. Moving forward, the school integration disagreement reveals that Twyla does not understand the struggles that Roberta is facing. She gets angry with the women for picketing, but they are standing up for what they want and she does not get that. Also, it reveals that, at this point in time, they look at each other for their color of their skin and not for the hardships that both have faced or the fact that they are bonded by being mothers. All in all, these are the instances where their social understandings affect their