In 1984 by Geroge Orwell The protagonist Winston has a dream about his final memories of his mother. He remembers the hardship the endured after the death of his father and he focuses a lot on remembering the look on her face as she looked at him. In the dream he also sees her gazing at him from a distant sinking ship. When h wakes Winston doesn't understand the dream but feels it is significant, and that his mother gave up something in order to save him.