My Grandmother Essay

My memoir is going to be about a very personal story dealing with my mother. She very smart and independent and has made very proud over the years but she has also had her weak moments. My mom had illness where it was causing her to lose weight and also lose sleep because she was dealing with marriage problems. My mom basically went from 129 pounds to 100 pounds within two or three weeks after being diagnosed. She had to make a hard decision my junior year of high school it was the day before my…

to have power, to get the women of his drams and to find a way out of the frost. A woman was raise in the Holocaust and now her story is told in a fairy tale so little children can understand. This story is manly a flash back that she had. Her grandmother was killed for her religion, not knowing she made it through the Holocaust. Trying to explain her story to her little love ones, she thinks the best way to explain her story. This story is most defiantly a fairy tale. The words and phase use…

born my mom was very young still in highschool, i remember the story is if it was yesterday when my grandmother told me, i came out the womb and my mom started crying she stated” i can't raise him” i'm a baby with a baby i have no clue of what to do” and then my grandmother comforted her told her everythings going to be ok i will take care of him my grandma stated, me and your father will take care of the baby, days later on my way home it was my grandparents who picked me up, a year later my…

The day my grandma passed away is a day I can’t ever forget. It was the day my life changed drastically. She was the woman that raised me while my own parents couldn’t. She was there for me growing up and at the time, I didn’t realize how important she was or how important any of my family members were. It changed my perspective on life and I felt like a part of my innocence was taken away from me. I remember that day so well, like it happened yesterday. I was in the 6th grade at the time and I…

My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrick Backman is a fictional story that is told in only 372 pages. Elsa’s granny has wronged many people and suddenly dies with very short notice, leaving Elsa the difficult job to deliver the apologetic letters her granny had wrote. The story takes place in many different places. There’s the Land of Almost Awake which has many kingdoms throughout the land, such as the Land of Miamas, Elsa and Granny’s favorite. The story also takes places in…

myself. Sweat dripped down the length of my body and into places I absolutely didn’t want to think about. My clothes were quickly becoming second skin, clinging in the most uncomfortable way. Furthermore it didn’t help that I was dressed from head to toe in sunlight absorbing black clothing. The only comforting thing that kept me going was having the knowledge that I knew everyone who surrounded me was going through the same experience. A quick glance to my left, a woman fans herself with a…

In Willa Cather’s novel entitled My Antonia, she writes about several female characters that, in essence, challenge the stereotypical women’s role in a male-dominated society during the early 1900s. In Trifles, a play written by Susan Glaspell, she depicts her female characters as crafty and bright and not simply inferior intellectually to their male counterparts. Upon closer examination of these two pieces of work, Cather and Glaspell demonstrate that these female characters defy the existing…

In the novel, My Antonia, is an upcoming of age story told from the eyes of Jim Burden. Jim reflects back on his childhood and remembers his dear friend Antonia. Willa Cather uses Jim as the narrative so he can relate the themes such female inequality, the immigrant experiences, and agriculture and farming. Female inequality was not something that Willa Cather had, but she added it in this novel to where women were actually seen as the strongest and the mean were the weakest. Willa Cather…

narrator's) grandmother lived there until she died while staying at their house. I was deeply connected by this because I was born in Lubbock and lived there until I moved to California at the age of 7. Lubbock has always been my favorite place because of the traditions and memories it carries. The first tradition that comes to my mind is Mackenzie Park. My family, along with multiple other families would gather there every holiday, and most weekends and we would have a massive barbecue. My…

The book My Antonia is written by Willa Cather. Willa Cather won the Pulitzer Prize for more than fifteen books. Cather was said to be one of the most remarkable writers in America during the early twentieth century. The story of My Antonia is set on the wide open plains of Nebraska. The story takes place in the late 1880s to the 1920s. The setting of how the characters are traveling by train, using horse and wagon to travel around gives the reader a pretty good idea that this was set in early…