Without the religious view holding their family back, perhaps there might have been room for Jeanette to believe something similar but different from her mother, and then perhaps they could have enjoyed conversations about each other's points of view. She has to wrestle with her mother's failure to appreciate her, alongside confusing, often shameful experiences of what should be very natural. But Winterson knows from personal experience that such beliefs are outlandish and wrong, but her mother is not lesbian, so there is very little young Jeanette can do to persuade her mother to love her for who she is. Her mother says that homosexuality is evil, and that gay people are sinners who will go to hell if they neglect to repent of it. This pits Jeanette against her own self, however, and it inverts the power structure in her home, because Jeanette knows from her experience of sexuality that her mother is wrong. Perhaps, the title is designed to suggest that her mother viewed truth with a closed-minded way, setting up her own beliefs as the only valid version of belief. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruitimplies that the belief pattern she is opposing is one where one truth automatically discredits another one. This memoir takes a response to fallacy as its title. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community.
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