Narrative Essay On Parents

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After the fight that Jeannette’s mom and dad had. The mom got up with the kids and applied for a job at the Battle Mountain Intermediate School and was hired on the spot because she had a teaching degree. Her mother hated teaching because her own mother was a teacher and pushed her into getting a degree in that so she would have a job to fall back on if her plans on being an artist failed. She was so angry that her mother might’ve been right all along. The only thing that really unsettled me was when she was trying to Miss Beatty that she was capable of disciplining her students. She stating to yell at Lori and went so far as whipping her with a wooden paddle in front of the whole class when she wasn’t even misbehaving. It also made sad that Lori accepted the punishment because her mother didn’t want to upset the other kids in …show more content…
They moved again because of the whole Billy incident. Billy started following Jeanette around like a puppy dog. He told everyone the he was her boyfriend and even gave her a ring that used to be his mothers. What angered me the most was when Billy showed her something funny and it was his father that peed himself. She didn’t think this was funny at all because he told her that her father was the same as his. I didn’t think this was funny because I am speechless to even think a child her age seeing a grown man’s penis right out in the open. After this some of the kids in the neighborhood were playing hide and seek and Billy was hiding in the same spot as Jeanette. Billy leaned in and kissed her, which was disgusting to her and tried to pull away. Since she couldn’t get away from his grip she bit his ear. Due to her denying Billy he came over to her house with a BB gun and started shooting at everyone. In self-defense they took their father’s gun and fired it at Billy. In the same night the father said they are going to

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