is my mother, my hero. She is the type of person who cares so much about helping other people, even when it’s not convenient for her. She is brave, intelligent, caring, selfless, and so many other things that I aspire to be when I am older. I have looked up to her since I was born, and she has never let me down. There is no one else I would even consider to be my hero other than her. My mother is my hero for so many reasons. To start off with my mother is the bravest and strongest person I…
He wanted to go back to the Berlin house for so long until he forgot his friends names and he met Shmuel. 4. Explain what Bruno’s mother means when she says, “We don’t have the luxury of thinking” (page 13). Why is Bruno’s mother unhappy at Out-With? (30 pts.) Bruno’s mother is unhappy with “Out-With” because she found out what her husband was doing. After she found that out she decided it was unsafe for her children and wanted…
I get it, I get it. We can’t control the consequences of our actions, but I know that we sure as hell can control how we go about dealing with them. Couldn’t you have at least tried to make things seem okay? Why is it that you’re unable to see the simple beauty of a human life? How can you do this to your own daughter? I am part of you, you know that, right? On the third day of October in the year of 2000, my mother gave birth to an “oops baby”. That baby was me. On that chilly, autumn morning,…
George Jackson at the beginning seem to be just a boring book to read at school. As i started reading through the book i could found myself interesting in this book. I did not matter to me if i could not understand it. “Soledad Brother,” is a book compose on letter wrote them from George to his family and friends. Read the book and learn other's perspective about their lives, because i see something from you, but i don't see the same thing on me, which means we are all different on…
go through life, but it is how we respond to these misfortunes that defines who we are. No one wants bad things to happen to them, in fact we do everything we can to avoid going through difficult times, but some things can not be avoided. Something we can avoid is obsessing over the inevitably unfortunate things that happen in our lives. There was a time in my own life when I was on the edge of being consumed in my own sadness. In fourth grade, around my 10th birthday, I was at my…
How well do you know your parents? How well do you understand them? For Thi, her relationship with her parents is somewhat distant as she mainly saw her mother as a constant working woman and her father as what used to be attentive, now as a constant smoker. The importance of understanding our own family responds the strength of the emotional bond that develops with communication and building memories to share with others. This theme of understanding family surrounds the novel “The Best We Could…
A bolt of thunder crept into my room and shocked me awake. “Mom!” I yelled, bolting from my bed. My chest rose and fell in rapid succession; I made my way toward the door of my room. I was always afraid of storms. Lightning 's electric current only existed within the night, and within the night existed the dark, and I was always afraid of the dark. Anything could be lurking. My hand grasped the metallic silver door knob, and I rotated it with a firm grip. The aperture made a soft clicking…
I know you’ve been through a lot. Having a broken family since birth. And you are the only child in the family. You are living with your mother and your grandparents. And your father is not with you. What is the essence of your life without your father? Yes, I know you feel incomplete. You’re always asking your mom where is your dad but your mom seems to be always quiet when you are asking about your dad. Then, here it comes, the day that your mom introduced you to your father. You felt so happy…
lives, and show how this event shaped us in some way. We had the option to express our event through the use of a graphic memoir like Maus, photographic/visual memoir like “How I Met Your Mother,” musical/poetic memoir like “American Pie,” painted memoir, or traditional. With all of these different styles I gravitated to poetry. My poems without a doubt spoke about a traumatic event, and what happened to my life from it. It discussed a horrific event I experienced, and explained how through…
to you? While conducting my research over the week, I became open to a lot of things I didn’t know my family thought. My question was “What does our family mean to you?”, and asking this didn’t end up changing my original hypothesis at all. My hypothesis originally was that all of the answers I received from my family would be relatively the same; that we are very close and overall a very happy family. I believe doing this research showed me how all of my family members felt in their own words,…