Could you tell me what "His mother gives up making him clean" mean?
Background information: The child is at war with his mother.
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Clean what? His bedroom?
His mother stop asking him to clean his bedroom because he just refuses doing it.
Clean about drugs
His mother stop trying to keep him away from drugs because he just keeps taking them.
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It might also be that his mother has given up making him clean his room or the house.
If it was originally written in English, "making him clean" to describe, presumably, washing him, is quite awkwardly written.
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It means his mother has quit trying to keep him clean.
To give up means- to quit because you've lost hope
Making him clean in this case probably means bathing him
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it means that mother does not clean her son anymore
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