Motherhood is a compassionate kinship between the mother and her offspring. Becoming a mother can be planned or unplanned depending on the person. Families tend to appreciate the new beginning of a little human life. When someone decides to have a new life, it's not easy, and not only can some women not get pregnant, but the variation your body endures is astonishing. The body goes through many life-changing experiences. Some women may gain weight or experience a roller coaster of emotions due to their hormones. Having a child is a very difficult thing, because your whole life changes and it's no longer just about you. Children cannot control the family or mothers they have at birth, they are not able to understand the concept of what is happening to their mothers or families until they get older. In the novels, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs and The Awakening by Kate Chopin, motherhood is depicted in many different ways. The two stories differ in my own way, but both encounter similarities with motherhood in various ways. In the novel Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs, the protagonist Linda is a slave who has many family values ​​even though when she was young she lost her mother and was left with her brother in the care of her grandmother, but was sent by her mother's lover who treated her very well and even taught Linda to read. Linda didn't know she was a slave until she was six. After the death of her mother's lover, she is sent to a relative whose name is Dr. Flint. He is very mean to Linda and she struggles to stay away from the consistency of Dr. Flint trying to have a sexual relationship with her. An example of this is when stated in Linda's book “When he to… middle of paper… is that Edna probably had children because it was the norm, but then he knew that she entitled her to freedom and business they weren't great for his kids either. I feel like Linda didn't really want to get married or have kids, but because it was the normal thing to do in her high class and society. I feel like she always wanted to be a free woman but wasn't allowed to, but then one day she decided to do it. In the novels, Incidents in the Life of a Slave girl, by Harriet A. Jacobs and The Awakening by Kate Chopin motherhood is depicted in many different ways. The two stories differ in my own way, but both encounter similarities with motherhood in various ways. Both women were essentially slaves in their own lives, both in a literal and theoretical sense. Both women represented motherhood in what I think is making the lives of their children better, before or after them.