Have you ever had respectable parents that influenced your life? My parents have always influenced me to get an education and to get a career that I will work for a very long time. My parents had met each other in high school and dated senior year. After they have graduate4d from high school they started their family. My parents had three children and we moved a lot and finally settled down in a place. Nevertheless, in Sandra Cisneros’ essay “ The Storyteller” she discusses about how she was raised in a big family and being the only woman out of the children. Her parents were based on a tradition to where everyone had to live with their parents until marriage. Based on Cisneros’ essay, I was the only woman out of the …show more content…
My mother was raised as a catholic. Her mother was very rigorous in cleaning the house. Her mother believed in the house always have to be spotless when someone comes over or other situations that happen at the house when guests come. Her mother did not believe in school, but my mother and her siblings went to school all day and came home to clean. However, my father parents were separated when he was young, but he lived with his father growing up. My father said, “My dad was strict with all of and made us work in the vineyard to pay for the house” so, his father helped the family support themselves. While his mother supported the family by working and telling them to get an education and not to be like her. Unlike my father, he did not know the way of being influenced because he was always with his father and when he went to go visit his mother. She was always tired and cooking for the …show more content…
When they had there children they have decided to change some traditions. Moreover, they did not want there children to make mistakes their parents have made for instance, clean the house flawlessly or work in the vineyards to support the rest of the family. My parents raised us children very well, but it depends if the offspring would pass down their culture. I was similar in Cisneros’ essay as a result of my parents always wanting me to stay home and be with the family. However, they do not want me to have any children, but to get a career first. My parents always have influenced my brothers and I to do our best on what were good at whether it is from being a mechanic to working at convenient store. I thank them for raising me properly and to pass down the culture I was raised around to my children. My brother is not here anymore and he has a son that I feel like he is mine. I know I am doing well to help him to do some traditions we do when we were a child and as well as growing up. My parents have persuaded throughout my life and learning the family culture to pass on to my relatives as well as my children later on in