Marlene Grassi The White Girl Analysis

In 1979, Marlene Grassi, a woman in her mid thirties lived in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. She had two young, active children, John who lived for 10 years at the time, and Bob whose age equaled 7. Bob played baseball and starred for his team while John geared more toward outdoor activities like boy scouts instead of sports. Amid her time of parenting she also attended a beauty school. Beauty school helped her advance on her goal to become a hairdresser or something similar where she can style people and help them look better. One day John had a boy scouts trip to go roller skating and Marlene decided why not go and take her other son too, this decision would end up affecting her next weeks heavily. Marlene thought her roller skating talent could at least prevent her from getting hurt. She watched her kids closely as they roller skated since both attempted for the first time. She cautiously skated backwards telling them to remain cautious while skating when ironically, she falls, turning around mid-air …show more content…
Tired of them, she cut off both her casts. Marlene could not quite remember how she did it but she thinks she just used scissors to cut through them both. The doctors surprisingly let her keep them off and told her to stay careful over the next couple of weeks and do not take part in any activities causing heavy use of her hands. Successfully doing so Marlene recovered fully without the casts.
From this experience that which Marlene endured lots of pain and looked down on at the time, now provides her with a good laugh and funny memories. Since her roller skating incident, she has never gone with anyone else afraid of injuries and similar events occuring. Thankful that she made it through this situation without any other complications, Marlene will make sure if anything like this happens again to not fall on her hands and never let a young child control a