Personal Narrative: How Jose Changed My Life

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This was not the first time me and Jose had talked before, or met in general. We first talked the second day of class, we found that we had a mutual liking too many things. As I began the interview he would not tell me too much about himself, he would keep it short and sweet, so I had to figure out something 's about him. I learned that Jose liked to be called rocky so I started calling him Rocky, so I sometimes call him rocky instead of Jose. I began to ask my first question, I noticed we both looked eager to hear and answer mutually. What school did you go to, and what type of environment did you grow up in? He said “I goto Manuel the School of Arts in the ghetto, in La south central, the environment is okay, drive bys sometimes occur on my block. Back in my old school people used to put my self esteem down, but I never fought.” “Mom wanted me to go to school, my dad was always working, but they both made time for me and was there for support”. Some of my older siblings went to college, so I figure I’d go.” He told me that he had an older sibling that went to college. I then …show more content…
I didn’t say one day or that they might I have said they will because I like making bets and I would like to see people succeed. Jose seems like a humble person I think it 's because of his adventures he had growing up. One can say that just because there quite doesn’t mean they 're humble. He said he loves his family and he was a family guy, he also said he grew up with people who put him down, I believe because of his upbringing he has a lot of self reflecting going on in his head. People that look at external and internal flaws have balance. I believe he did a lot of that saying that he loved his family, not trying to start fights and claim something he isn’t of are qualities that I can say is someone worthy of the title of a humble

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