Essay About Grandmother

The Strongest Grandmother Alive To have a full appreciation and gratification of this personal essay you first have to understand my family upbringing. As a child my immediate family was always much closer to my mothers side of the family than my dads side. With my mothers family we religiously came together as a family for days full of loving and also our fair share of fighting with each other. However, it was much different with my dad’s side of the family. As a child I only saw that side of…

Paternal Grandmother I have to start my autobiography off by saying I have no knowledge of my mother’s family and I have to apologize for having no interest in learning about that side of the family. This autobiography will be a reflection of my family related to only the paternal side. I will start with my father 's mother. My grandmother originally born Sheryl Lynn’ Ann Williams, now Sharon Williams, was born in New Orleans Louisiana. She was born on April 5th, 1949 and was the youngest of 8.…

should all have one person who knows how to bless us despite the evidence; Grandmother was that person to me” (Phyllis Theroux). I was thrust kicking and screaming into this world on the 26th of February 1997 in Auckland, New Zealand. With my father having gotten lost on his way to the hospital, and then accosted by a Maori man, he barely made it there for my birth so it all turned into a rather stressful affair. My grandmother on my mother’s side, Glenys Hopkinson, who lived in New Zealand,…

Throughout the story the character who seem to have the whole attention is the grandmother. She is the main protagonist of this sad story. The grandmother has an awful attitude and behavior which it creates a negative atmosphere for the other person around her. For example, O’Connor emphasize the attitude of her grandkids, “‘She wouldn't stay at home to be queen for a day’ June Star said” (404). Her grandkids do not respect her because it seems that they learn the negative things from her. Also…

Can you think of somebody you used to look up to? Or still look up to? For the longest time and still today I look up to my great grandmother. Her name was Pilar Gundlach, but I called her Lola, which means “grandmother” in Filipino. She was born on October 11, 1933 in Pampanga, Philippines. My grandmother went through a heavy amount of difficulties as a child. She was born during World War II and was a pre-teen through the Japanese occupation. After meeting my great grandfather and quickly…

Isabella Isabella, the youngest girl of a family consisting of five brothers and three sisters, a serious and shy girl she didn’t have many friends. Ordinarily she spent her time with her mother helping her around the house. With 5 boys in the home there were innumerable chores to be done. The family was boisterous and active. Wearing his navy work pants and an undershirt, her father, often took off his belt and chased around one of the boys to settle an argument. An uncomfortable atmosphere to…

November 12, at approximately 8:00pm I was in the car with my Grandmother. We pulled up her house and I started to talk to her about my Gender Studies course and asked her if she would like to participate in my interview assignment. She was very excited to take part and was eager to discuss and hear my views on some of these topics. 2- What surprised me most during the interview and what was most informative was how blunt my grandmother was being about topics surrounding modern feminism…

legally. My grandmother, Grace MacDonald or “nan” as a young child with a rather severe speech impediment, a name which she adored and is something which has stuck with her for the past 16 years. A woman who has never worked a day in her life due because she married a police officer and…

Today I am interviewing Julienne Lapastina, which is my grandmother. She is an eighty-two-year-old woman born on April 8, 1934 and was born in Staten Island, Ney York. This is where she grew up with her stay at home mom, full time working dad, and her nine siblings; six sisters and three brothers. Julienne recently lost her husband of 20 years, and has since been widowed for about two years now. They got married on October 1, 1955 and were together up until the day her husband Frank Lapastina…

Culture is a strong part of people’s lives. For this reason, most people stick together only with those who share the same culture as them. That is exactly what one of an American poet, novelist, and memoirist Gary Soto’s grandmother told him to do so. Not only his grandmother wanted him to marry to a Mexican girl but also his mother. My mother wanted me to marry someone of my own social class- a poor girl (Like Mexicans 392). Instead, Soto married to a Japanese woman and he knew that she is…