My Family And My Grandmother

Family is a bond, that many people share. They are the people who never lets us down, keeps us moving forward, and loves us unconditionally. However, family doesn 't have to revolve around blood. Families can be made by adoption, close friends, and much more. There are generations and generations of our family that we might not know a lot of about, but the family people have now has impacted our lives. However, not everyone family is perfect we have our times that they can make us want to scream to the top of our lungs, but you usually get over it. All families are different, depending upon how one was raised. Now a days technology is so high tech it changes how we see the world. Especially, comparing the differences between me and my grandmother. …show more content…
When discussing the topic with my grandmother, you could see it in her eyes. The smile she had remembering all the fun times she had as child, and how our life turned out. It was like entering this flashback of memories. We first discussed about her parents, and how she was raised. My grandmother was raised by her mother and father. Her father had past away a very long time ago, but her mother had past away here recently at the age of hundred and three years old. Her family was very church oriented. Actually, when asking what success meant to her, she said "raising a Christian family and having a good successful life, not only for me, but also my kids and their kids (R. Ross)." She felt fortunate to be raised by a family that was so good to her. Most of her family worked at farms, in mills, and fixing machinery. Every day as a child, it was kind of set of as routine. They knew there responsibilities on what needed to be done and how to do them. After they were finished with their chores it was basically free time. So there was no discipline involved. They went to school every day, they went to the movies or swimming during the weekend, and to church every Sunday. After church they went and had ice- cream it was like a tradition they shared. My grandmother told me "the only lesson my parents ever preached to me and my siblings were about to be hardworking, honest, and be kind to others (R. Ross)." They …show more content…
How people have died, how technology has escalated, and how things are different. First, major events that happened. She only could think of few. She mentioned the Vietnam War, the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and Reagan being shot. Which is crazy to think about since we talked about some of those events in schools. To think that my grandmother was around when it occurred. I had then asked about technology. "Well first of all we used paper and pencil," she giggled " typewriters was a big thing, now you hardly see them, and another thing that has changed dramatically is telephone" (R. Ross). She explained how they use to be this huge block, with a long antenna, or how the house phones had a the dial you spin. She came to say she hasn 't seen those in a while. Another big thing we discussed was how things have changed. She explained, "Not as many people work now a days like they used to, every body had to work, it was the only to pay the bills and feed the children. I started working at a very young age, and there are people out there who could care less about getting a job" (R. Ross). Another thing he mentioned was how roles have changed. " When I was younger watching my mother and even myself when I became an adult, our roles was to not only take of our children, but our husbands who acted like children," she chuckled. "Now a days, women take care of themselves, not there husbands, this is one of