"A Visit to Grandmother"

"A Visit to Grandmother" is a story that takes a black man named Charles all the way back to his childhood where he encounters a question that he has been asking himself his whole life: does his mother love him less than his irresponsible brother? All through the story his mother shows that she loves him just as much as his brother, GL, but treats them differently. From the beginning to the end of this …

…not treat GL differently than Charles, GL surely would have been severely injured or possibly killed himself. Although Charles had the maturity to take-on more responsibility, he still felt that his mother loved GL more than him. It is obvious that the mother loved both of her sons equally. Charles thought she did not because of his brother's skin color. But what he did not understand was that his mother's attitude toward GL was necessary.