Quinceañera Ceremony-Personal Narrative Analysis

If I would’ve written this a few months ago, I might have touched upon my fifteenth birthday. A symbolic celebration that in Hispanic culture represents transcendence for a young girl into adulthood. Today, I am aware that, although beautiful and alluring my Quinceañera ceremony did not magically inject me with maturity, responsibility and all other characteristics of adulthood. I realized that simply mentioning I was mature did not make me so. At the age of fifteen my emotions were topsy-turvy, I threw tantrums and groaned duties given to me. What clearly draws a line between my attitude two years ago and today would be that I know how to contain and regulate the child in me. This understanding comes from a series of events that have led me …show more content…
It was red and inflamed. At the time she was wearing contacts and had slightly scratched her cornea. After her first visit the doctors gave her contacts to wear. In less than a month she had to rush back to the emergency room because her eye was ten times worse and the left side of her head hurt. After a few checkups the doctors were able to diagnose her condition. The fact that she had to get surgery twice depressed her. Due to the fact that my aunt is someone who cares a lot about her appearance she felt odd with one eye looking grey and another brown. Oftentimes people would ask her why her eyes were different colors. My aunt is someone I love dearly and look up to, seeing her have to go through that pain definitely reshaped me. I stopped thinking about only myself and started thinking more about her and my family members. It is an event that impacted me and completely altered my relationship with each of my family members. Given our close relationship it was up to me to bring her back from her depression. I would always do her hair, her makeup and nails. Just to make her feel pretty. It was difficult seeing her feel that