Personal Narrative-It's Time To Adopt A Family

One thing that I have not considered before was when it is around Christmas time, and people do the adopt a family, that some families, but not all did not like it when we gave their families free Christmas gifts for their children. It was mostly the father of the house hold that did not like it at all, because that made the father feel like he could not provide for his family. When it was time to open present the father would go upstairs and go to his room, and if his children ask their mother where their father was, the mother would always lie and say that he left and went to the grocery store, and he would be right back. Even though he was right upstairs, the mother did not want to explain why the father did not want to be down stairs while they were opening up their gifts. I just never considered it that way. I always thought doing it was to not only to make me feel good that I was helping a family in need, but knowing the little children was getting a Christmas.
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I really like this statement, because it just talks about how, when you do go to another country to help out that instead of doing for the people in the town, actually show them how to do it with you. This will one, create a bond with the towns people, but two, when you are not there, they will actually know how to do that certain trait or skill that you taught them, just in case something ends up breaking down. Just like in the book when it talks about making a well for the town’s people. It will always break down, because one, they do not know how to fix the well to get it back running again, nor do they have the material to even fix it if they did know how to fix it. So instead of doing the well for them, and taking away someone else’s job, teach them how to fix the well, and leave them or sell them material to be able to fix it, if it breaks