What are the characteristics of these two women? List all the characteristics and tick the same characteristics?（Susan Smith and Mam）

Susan Smith is troubled and intelligent. She has no self-confidence, and she suffors from a form of depression. Susan is a loner and prefers privacy.... keeping to herself. Over the course of the story, Susan becomes something she never thought she would be. All of her fears about parenting dwindle, as she takes on the responsibility of caring for Jaime and Ada..... the children who teach her how to live and love.

Mam, Jaime and Ada's biological mother, is a cruel woman, who never wanted children. After sending them to the country, she has no second thoughts, and if she hadn't received word that she would have to begin paying the government for their care.... she would have left them with Susan without looking back. Mam isolates Ada and keeps her hidden. When the children are returned, she takes away Ada's shoes and crutches, inspiring Ada to tell her mother that she and Jaime would leave if she didn't want them.... her mother then asks if that is a promise. This is the moment that Ada realizes her mother doesn’t love her or Jamie..... and that there's nothing they can do to make her love them.

When Jamie and Ada’s mother comes for them Susan realizes they are more her children than their own mother’s. She goes after Ada and Jamie the following day and finds them in the bombed out ruins of London even though she had never been to London before. When she returns home with the children and finds her house has been bombed, she thanks the children for saving her life.