Aloo and the narrator of the story are the youngest children in a single-parent family. Their older siblings have all left home. Their mother is a widow who has raised five children on her own. Aloo wants to study medicine, not agriculture. He harbours the ambition to go to America to study. He writes to some American Universities hoping to get a scholarship. When a well-known American University offers him a scholarship, Aloo's dream looks set to come true. However, his mother says that she cannot afford to send him to America. Aloo is very upset. mother seeks advice from mr velji, a school officer. He tells her that getting scholarship is good for Aloo's future he also cautions her that she may lose him if she lets him go so far away. seeing her son's disappointment, mother decides to let her son go in the end.
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aloo's mother is a strong woman who wants what is best for her children.
aloo's mother is a strong woman who wants what is best for her children. she has lost her husband when she was 33 year old and has to raise her children on her own. she is selfless and always puts her children first. she choose not to remarry so that she could raise her children. after the two eldest daughters and the eldest son move away. mother closes the family store and takes her two youngest children to live in a quiet town called upanga. this is because mother has hight hopes for them and wants them to concentrate on their studies. aloo's mother is conflicted. she is attached to aloo and does not want him to leave her but at the same time she wants what is best of him. she is afraid that aloo will pick up the negative habits abroad and never returned home. however aloo's mother is compassionate. she finally allows aloo to go to america for better education and better life.