Rising and Converging

     This story, in my opinion, was very understandable but at the same time it seemed to baffle me in many ways. It wasn't so much the mother character in the story but the son. The story was an easy read compared to some of the previous stories we have read and seemed to keep my attention pretty well.
     The mother character in the story seemed to feel a very high sense of personal worth. So much that she believed that 95% of the people she encountered were inferior to her. She was caretaker of her son whom of which she struggled to raise and put through college. To most, struggling does not sound pleasant but she clamed to have enjoyed struggling. The neighborhood they lived in at one point had been a nice and respectable place to call home but over the years it had seemed to have taken it's toll and no longer was the respectable place she still saw it as. Integration had taken place but it something she had refused to acknowledge. For the life of her she just could not understand why anybody would believe that dark-skinned people would be beneficial to the world in any other way but slavery. Her son, on the other hand, almost seemed as if though he wanted to disown her. If he could find a way to be rid of his mother or to replace her, I'm sure he would've. He was very ashamed and embarrassed by his mothers actions. He was very angry with her for being so polarized with her thoughts. It's almost as if even though the whole world had to change and accept new things she was the one exception to that rule. He felt as if though it were his responsibility to teach her a lesson. To show her that her ancient and close minded ways of thinking needed to go and that meant doing everything in his power that he thought would accomplish just that. He spent his days trying to clean up the mess his mother made in the lives if others. Specifically, African Americans.                
     Although, all of this is not hard to understand, the part that I cannot seem to wrap my mind around is why was he such a sour person? I understand that his mother was a arrogant, condescending, patronizing, snooty and etc. but why did he feel as if he needed to take on her wrong doings? Why did he allow that to get him down so much that he would take himself to an imaginary world just to get away from her? He was not his mother but for some reason it's almost as if he acted like he was her and he realized how wrong his actions were and he was trying to spend the rest of his life making up for them. I understand that any normal person who had a mother that behaved like his would be very off-put and upset but to understand that it's not your problem, it's the other persons and move on or get as far away from it as you can and realize that there's nothing you can do to change them and they have to change on their own, now that, that is what he should've done.