Thang Khai
EN 097 T/TH
L. Burris
HW: Response Paragraph for Mabry’s Article “Living in Two Worlds”
22 Sept. 2016 In the article “Living in Two World” by Marcus Mabry, a former student at Stanford University, issue on April 1998 in Newsweek expressing of how going to college at different states made him feels distant and away from his property. Mr. Mabry is at his junior year at Stanford University after the midterm, he had no friends to hang out with he was alone, so he decided to go back home where his mom, brother; soon to be a father; and all of his relative live. That’s what every college student do when the holiday is around everybody is excited about going home to be with family. Every time when Mr. Mabry went home to visit family he feels uncomfortable and awkward because he been gone too long. When you go away from your family even for a week, you feel like a …show more content…
This shows that his mother truly loves them and she cares if her children would have a decent life. I think most of the parents wants their sons or daughters to have a decent life. I can relate by this because about four years ago my parents moved to the United States of America just for me and my brother to have better education and better life than them. This shows that my parents truly want me to be successful. During Mr. Mabry visit time in New Jersey, he felt guiltier for being gone so long and what he missed out while his mother trying to support her family. Mr. Mabry mentions that being away from your family and poverty for long is a way of disconnecting with your family. Mabry says “Somewhere in the midst of all that misery, my family has built, within me” (Par 11). This got me very concern about choosing what college to attend: If I decide to attend at a college far from home then I will have become a better educated yet further away from my relationship to my family? Will I feel left
EN 097 T/TH
L. Burris
HW: Response Paragraph for Mabry’s Article “Living in Two Worlds”
22 Sept. 2016 In the article “Living in Two World” by Marcus Mabry, a former student at Stanford University, issue on April 1998 in Newsweek expressing of how going to college at different states made him feels distant and away from his property. Mr. Mabry is at his junior year at Stanford University after the midterm, he had no friends to hang out with he was alone, so he decided to go back home where his mom, brother; soon to be a father; and all of his relative live. That’s what every college student do when the holiday is around everybody is excited about going home to be with family. Every time when Mr. Mabry went home to visit family he feels uncomfortable and awkward because he been gone too long. When you go away from your family even for a week, you feel like a …show more content…
This shows that his mother truly loves them and she cares if her children would have a decent life. I think most of the parents wants their sons or daughters to have a decent life. I can relate by this because about four years ago my parents moved to the United States of America just for me and my brother to have better education and better life than them. This shows that my parents truly want me to be successful. During Mr. Mabry visit time in New Jersey, he felt guiltier for being gone so long and what he missed out while his mother trying to support her family. Mr. Mabry mentions that being away from your family and poverty for long is a way of disconnecting with your family. Mabry says “Somewhere in the midst of all that misery, my family has built, within me” (Par 11). This got me very concern about choosing what college to attend: If I decide to attend at a college far from home then I will have become a better educated yet further away from my relationship to my family? Will I feel left