In Samuel Peralta's “A Mother”, the author uses imagery to introduce an accepting mother to demonstrate the genuine gift of love a mother longs for in a family that will affect her individuality and internal self. Peralta expresses the “dreams” of the mother in order to suggest the significance of the gift she initially dreamed of. Indeed, dreams are a part of the internal self; it is an element unique only to an individual. Contrary, the “pockets” are components of the external world; it is a bank of only what the society can afford to have in order to fulfil one’s dreams. Peralta illustrates the “world of glass” in order to symbolize a tiny universe, that the mother wants, protected by glass. In fact, the world of glass is used to denote