Mother insult

overheard him, that is, talking about my mother behind her back. And to her cousin no less!…

Much to the surprise of his mother and father, Christopher Murphy was born precisely 2 minutes after the birth of his sister, on the first day of spring. They coped with it the way most parents would, taking it in stride and thanking their lucky stars that they had enough money and time for two children. The trend of surprises didn't stop on his birthday, though, the first coming in the form of a note from his kindergarten report card, which plainly stated the words: “brilliant but difficult.…

and she didn't like all the attention. At home, it wasn't any better. She was the oldest and had to look after her three year old brother. Their mother was an alcoholic. She started to drink when Cleo was eight years old and her father decided to leave. Upon finding out that her mother was pregnant, now at the age of eleven she has to be a sister, a mother, a caretaker, and a friend…

Nonetheless there is a great difference in the consequences of someone who was not nearly as sheltered, such as I, rebelling compared to someone like Robert White. White is a preteen whose mother would go to immeasurable lengths to ‘protect’ him and his siblings. She sheltered them, monitored them, even completed their homework. By the time Robert was 14, he wanted to learn for himself, which is why he fought with his mom to complete his own…

Urrea would describe his father as turning into the machine whenever It came time for Urrea to learn something that a macho man should know. There was a moment when Urrea was a younger boy riding his bike with training wheels, and his father would insult him for still using training wheels and asked Urrea if he wanted to learn how to ride a bike like a real man. Urrea wanted to please his father, he then unscrewed the training wheels and was then being pushed by his father down a busy…

with her children. It’s her pride and the cultural pressures and traditions of her old country that cause her to be strict towards Waverly. As Mrs. Jong does her daughter’s hair, Waverly has a subtle thought about Chinese torture so she questions her mother, “Ma, what is Chinese torture?’ Mrs. Jong genuinely replies, “‘Chinese people do business, do medicine, so painting...We do torture. Best torture’” (Tan 3). Waverly asks the question with sarcasm; however, Mrs. Jong does not understand…

Christmas Day 1996, I was born to a Black father and a White mother in California. I had what I thought was the perfect family: two loving parents who provided for me, a younger sibling that I could have fun with, and pets to play with out in the yard. I had friends who I would regularly enjoy the company of. I truly thought I had the perfect life! I had this mindset for the first 10 or 12 years of my life, and nothing drastic had happened to change that. Little did I know, that was about to…

Sam first cut all the connection with her mother because he wanted to know his father better. Then Sam confronted his father about being sick and tired of doing chores for his mother. Finally, Sam and his mother were arguing. Sam criticize his mother making her cry and suffer. Coming of age is an important theme in which a character grows and matures into an adulthood. Sam came of age because when he saw his mother on the sand crying he accepted his mother will never change due to her behavior…

I’m not going to lie to you. I was nervous. I was already a target for bullies at school and I was afraid that getting glasses would make it even worse. “Hey four eyes” and other insults about glasses started haunting me to the point that I was convinced I wasn’t going to wear them at school. Of course, my mom kept trying to make me feel better. “Nobody will notice Paige, it isn’t that big of a deal anyways.” She said to me in the…

Vietnamese New Year, everyone is one year older and the rest of the year is foretold by their actions. Typically only boys can get up first in the morning to bless the house for luck but Ha got into an argument with her mother. It turns out that Ha wanted to bless the house but mother said no because it wouldn’t work. That night Ha awoke before dawn and, “…tap my big toe to the tile floor first” (Lai, Pg. 3), here Ha went against her mother’s wishes because she didn’t think that it was fair. Ha…