Narrative Essay On My American Dream

My parents emigrated to this country thirty-four years ago from Mexico. My father had a grade school education and my mother had a middle school education. They had a deep desire to improve their lives, and having that American dream everybody talks about. The American dream they had in mind was giving their children what they couldn’t have, due to the lack of funds. Due to their limited English and lack of education the only available work was low paying manual labor. My mother worked in the strawberry fields and my father worked in the lettuce fields. Once, when I got home from school, my father was waiting for me at the front porch. He explained that my mother had a work related accident. In the fields, where she picked strawberries she stood up to fast and she injured her spine. She had to be transported to the hospital, but the supervisor refused to acknowledge her injury. The supervisor simply brushed it off and made her return to work. But, she simply could not move, her main fear was that if she moved something terrible was going to happen. After, a couple of hours the supervisor finally gave in and called an ambulance. The ambulance took her away to the emergency department. My father just found out about it and he was waiting for me to …show more content…
I want to make my parents proud of me and see that their hard work was not in vein. I am the first one both sides of the family to graduate from the University and I am proud of that. Seeing my parents struggle in life has made me realize that I need to compensate them for everything that they did for me. One way I can compensate them is to learn more about the law. Considering all the injustices that we went through in our life. I need to help out the people around me and make them see that they do have a voice and they do have rights. In addition, they can also continue to pursue their American