The Silver Pin Notes

In “The Silver Pin,” Susan Rubin Suleiman explains a very detailed memory of her family taking portraits in 1949 with specific reference to the pin her mother was wearing at the time. Even though the author associates this pin with memories of this past, her mother for some reason doesn’t value memories in the same way. That might be a reason she no longer wore the pin when they came to the United States, but everyone associates their past with different meanings. However, the overall message of this piece is the silver pin that has been and will be a piece of her past that will represent her mother forever.