The Development of a Strong Woman
My grandmother Phyllis Pedan Beck was born in the year 1943, she was born into a poor family and her father was a sharecropper. They lived in Falkland until she was thirteen, while she lived in Falkland remembered being so poor that they had no snacks they just ate biscuits from the meals before throughout the day, she said she didn’t even remember if they tasted good just that that was what they had so she ate them. They lived in a two room house with seven people, she grew up with four brothers and sisters and her parents all squeezed into a small house in Falkland. Her childhood consisted mostly of working alongside her family in the fields even when she was too little to pick cotton. She remembered …show more content…
During her childhood she wandered around doing exactly as she was told and tried not to stray away because she didn’t want there to be consequences so she questioned herself constantly. When she moved to Williamston for the Farm Life school she started to try to figure out her place, would she be a housewife or try to work. During highschool she remained hadn’t picked a path so she was just going along with everything that happened however she still didn’t know who she was as a person she was still so young. Her young marriage made the question Erikson posed harder to answer “Can I Love?” She obviously loved my grandfather but she questioned if she was doing it right since he was so harsh to her. As she got older she decided to divorce her husband which made her try to figure out if she could still do something with her life even after she let her marriage hold her back for so long. With my grandmother in the final stage of Erikson’s theory she questions every decision she made throughout her life and she questions if she should have married even if it brought her her children or if she should have been so shy throughout life. For my grandmother the final two stages have mixed together since she has grown more confident in her later years she spends so much of her time finally doing what she wants to do and not answering to someone else for any choices she makes. Erikson’s theory doesn’t fit exactly but it was the closest to my grandmother 's development that I could see. She made herself into a strong woman even after all the hoops she had the jump through and that development is amazing to hear
My grandmother Phyllis Pedan Beck was born in the year 1943, she was born into a poor family and her father was a sharecropper. They lived in Falkland until she was thirteen, while she lived in Falkland remembered being so poor that they had no snacks they just ate biscuits from the meals before throughout the day, she said she didn’t even remember if they tasted good just that that was what they had so she ate them. They lived in a two room house with seven people, she grew up with four brothers and sisters and her parents all squeezed into a small house in Falkland. Her childhood consisted mostly of working alongside her family in the fields even when she was too little to pick cotton. She remembered …show more content…
During her childhood she wandered around doing exactly as she was told and tried not to stray away because she didn’t want there to be consequences so she questioned herself constantly. When she moved to Williamston for the Farm Life school she started to try to figure out her place, would she be a housewife or try to work. During highschool she remained hadn’t picked a path so she was just going along with everything that happened however she still didn’t know who she was as a person she was still so young. Her young marriage made the question Erikson posed harder to answer “Can I Love?” She obviously loved my grandfather but she questioned if she was doing it right since he was so harsh to her. As she got older she decided to divorce her husband which made her try to figure out if she could still do something with her life even after she let her marriage hold her back for so long. With my grandmother in the final stage of Erikson’s theory she questions every decision she made throughout her life and she questions if she should have married even if it brought her her children or if she should have been so shy throughout life. For my grandmother the final two stages have mixed together since she has grown more confident in her later years she spends so much of her time finally doing what she wants to do and not answering to someone else for any choices she makes. Erikson’s theory doesn’t fit exactly but it was the closest to my grandmother 's development that I could see. She made herself into a strong woman even after all the hoops she had the jump through and that development is amazing to hear