Pram Lady and Forbidden Clothes

An important idea in both The Pram Lady by Vivien Alcock and veto Clothes by Jamila Gavin is how people are unaccepting of differences. This is important to me because people should be able to be themselves without being hassled or excluded, also because people my age are not genuinely accepting of others differences. In the Pram Lady Helena does not accept the way her mother dresses and behaves. She want her mum to be like other mums with coloured hair and a perm because it reflects badly on her.When William, Helenas new boyfriend, sees Helenas mother and doesnt realize who she is he makes a rude comment about her appearance God, what a fright What a ridiculous creature Helena reacts to this by running away from him and telling him she never wants to see or speak to him again. Even though Helenas mother is enormously fat and wears stained clothes, Helena still will not associate with people who disrespect her mother.This shows us that Helena herself has not judge her mother for the way she is. From this, I learnt that I should not be so quick to judge others before getting to know them because personality shines through and is the close to important thing. Oddly, though Helena doesnt want people saying rude things about her mother, she says those things herself. Helenas mother doesnt mind what people think about her and tells Helena that she should erect laugh with her friends when they see her.Helena just wants her mother to be normal, when Helen tells her mum this she responds by saying But thats what you want, isnt it, Helena? An ordinary mother like your friends have. oer time Helena gets stressed by the fact her mother forgets to do regular things like wearing unstained clothes. This doesnt work for either of them because Helena is everlastingly worried about her mother and her mother is forced to change into something she isnt to please Helena.I relate to this because girls my age sometimes dont except people for their flaws. Reading this compa ct story made me feel that I should wait until I know someone before judging them. As is in The Pram Lady, Forbidden Clothes also shows the way people are made to feel like outsiders because they have differences from their peers. Nasreen, a girl who is living in the UK never matte different in Pakistan,