Dreams and goals motivate us to make a change in our life. Life would be much easier if everything we wanted was handed to us. No matter how difficult something may be, we always must believe in ourselves and fight for what we want. Nowadays we have the privilege of education which is taken for granted. In the past generations it wasn’t easy to have education and many countries today still have difficulties getting it. In this essay “The Dreamer” by Junot Díaz he writes about how his mother overcame great obstacles and fought against her family's ideals to accomplish her dreams. His mother drank the dirty puddle water so she wouldn’t have the future her mother wanted her to have and the chance to attend school and pursue her dream of becoming
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She grew up in a poor family in Dominican Republic with the dream of becoming a nurse. She drank the dirty puddle water so she wouldn’t have the future her mother wanted her to have. Her mother strictly expected her to work on the family farm until she died or was married off fulfilling all the domestic responsibilities a woman has. As Diaz mentioned in his essay “Any time my mother was caught near the schoolhouse, my grandmother gave her a beating. And not the beatings of the First World but the beatings of the Third—which you do not so easily shake off (Diaz). Because she drank the dirty puddle water she got so sick that her family decided to head into the hills without …show more content…
Unfortunately, his mother wasn’t able to become a nurse like she wanted but she was able to attend school and have the privilege of education. In the future, she was rewarded with a son who became a writer and looks up to her while thinking of her story whenever he needs encouragement. As it states in the essay “who knows how things might have turned out under different circumstances, but I do believe that who I am as an artist, everything that I’ve ever written, was possible because a seven-year-old girl up in the hills of Azua knelt before a puddle, found courage in herself and drank. Every time I’m in trouble in my art, I try to think of that girl. I think of that thirst, of that courage. I think of her (Diaz). Even though his mother wasn’t able to become a nurse, her story inspires her son and helps him whenever he’s in
She grew up in a poor family in Dominican Republic with the dream of becoming a nurse. She drank the dirty puddle water so she wouldn’t have the future her mother wanted her to have. Her mother strictly expected her to work on the family farm until she died or was married off fulfilling all the domestic responsibilities a woman has. As Diaz mentioned in his essay “Any time my mother was caught near the schoolhouse, my grandmother gave her a beating. And not the beatings of the First World but the beatings of the Third—which you do not so easily shake off (Diaz). Because she drank the dirty puddle water she got so sick that her family decided to head into the hills without …show more content…
Unfortunately, his mother wasn’t able to become a nurse like she wanted but she was able to attend school and have the privilege of education. In the future, she was rewarded with a son who became a writer and looks up to her while thinking of her story whenever he needs encouragement. As it states in the essay “who knows how things might have turned out under different circumstances, but I do believe that who I am as an artist, everything that I’ve ever written, was possible because a seven-year-old girl up in the hills of Azua knelt before a puddle, found courage in herself and drank. Every time I’m in trouble in my art, I try to think of that girl. I think of that thirst, of that courage. I think of her (Diaz). Even though his mother wasn’t able to become a nurse, her story inspires her son and helps him whenever he’s in