Sarah’s Reviews > My Mother the Cheerleader > Status Update

Louise’s life seems really sad. She’s never been truly loved and for the first time in forever she finally finds someone, Morgan, who seems to truly care about her and how she feels. Unbeknownst to both of them though, Pauline isn’t really Louises real mother. And considering Paulines past, Louise starts to feel bad for her and even as a reader I’m starting to sympathize with her.

Louise and i have similar struggles. Just like her, i often find my self having more moral beliefs than my own parents. Or feeling like i have to parent my own parents. Only she handles it better than me(haha). I can start to see how her mom Pauline slowly starts to change the way she thinks after realizing that Morgan was a jew. But she sees how kind he is to her and Louise.

I feel like the books “interesting level” has stayed constant. It’s stayed interesting the whole time through so far. Louise confronts Morgan about being jewish and he talks about his experiences as a jewish man living in the south to her.

The book has gotten more interesting. A jewish man has come into Louise’s life and becomes friends with her and her mom. Finding out that he was jewish was a big thing because jews faced a lot of hate and discrimination at the time. Louises mom continues to take abuse from her boyfriend and Louise continues to figure things out about the new jewish man in her life.

This book seems kind of sad. The main character Louise seems like she’s never been loved as a child and she’s living in a community full of hate. This book takes place during school integration and Ruby Bridges. Her mother was one of the “cheerleaders” who protested against integration.