Personal Narrative: My Mother's Journey

The person that I chose to interview was my mother although I missed most of her journey, the stages in her journey that I was able to witness intrigued me to find out what happened during that journey that I was absent. My mother was born in Chicago Illinois, at the age of three she visited Israel, then four years later she moved to Israel. Only thing that she remembered about her first trip to Israel was actually going to Israel, she was told the purpose of the trip. Most of her memory or experience in Israel is recalled from the age seven and up.
She lived In a small town that she had never heard of but a town where she would soon find out that her father was a public leader a more modern day term a politician. Just as the politicians we have today everything we’ve learned about them are simply things they wanted us to know. She explained how as young girl she hardly spent any time with her dad, and how he was always traveling around the country and world on “business trips”. The people from the town thought of her father as this marvelous individual but she claims as a child she had not seen what they were seeing. Her dad was absent in her childhood all she had was her mother, and brothers.
Growing up in America for six years seemed to be pretty decent in her eyes. She …show more content…
Religion did not play any significant role in my family, I was told to not bother with religions I was always told as a child that their simply forms of social control and filled with mythological stories. My parents told me that there was only one person who could determine the type of relationship I have with God and that is me, and that no one could help but me. With religion out of my life I was raised as spiritualist, I accepted all walks of life I was not one to use terms such as the chosen people. I simply believed and still believe that everyone is chosen for a reason and that we are all Gods