1.<Tab/>Each woman on the bus reacts to the child's actions differently. The narrator reacts by smiling at the children because she knows that this is neither the first nor the last time this will happen, while the mother of the children reacts by slapping their hands to make them stop touching the woman. 2.<Tab/>A theme statement expressing my interpretation of the main idea in this …showed first 75 words of 273 total…

…showed last 75 words of 273 total…Maxine Tynes uses imagery, comparison and connotation ("dipped in the brown skin magic") to convey this mood and tone. 4. <Tab/><Tab/>Irony surrounds the "motherlove" in this poem because a mother's love means to caress her children with love and affection instead of teaching them morals especially in public places. However, in the poem the mother slaps her kids when she sees them touching the black woman.