Read the following excerpt from Clear Springs: A Memoir by Bobbie Ann Mason. What details does the writer use to show that her mother grew up without affection or closeness?
Her father, Robert Lee, abandoned the family just before she was born, and Mama lost her mother in childbirth when she was only four. She was left to grow up without affection or closeness or indulgence. Yet she wasn’t thrown into an orphanage or adopted or shuttled around to foster families. She lived at first with her grandmother, then in the teeming household of her aunt and uncle. Her kinfolks took her in, out of obligation. But they gave her little love. “You’re lucky to have a roof over your head,” they said as they put her to work. She says she felt like a lost kitten, crouching beneath the passing shadow of a hawk.
