Mother Teresa

At one point in “Pilgrims” Orringer explains how the site of watching her mother get a chemotherapy treatment effects Ella, “She remembered it like a filmstrip from school, a series of connected images she wished she didn’t have to watch: her mother with an IV needle in her arm,… her mother shaking so hard she had to be tied down” (Orringer 489). In these words, Orringer has shown chemotherapy treatment through the eyes of a confused and scared child. We are taken to a place where everything has…

Hushpuppy to be willing to sacrifice herself for the good of the community when she becomes the leader of Bathtub. - The woman who Hushpuppy thinks is her mother cooks alligator meat for Hushpuppy and tells her to stay strong and be brave even when she is alone. Her words make Hushpuppy understand that there is no need for her to find her mother, and she can live well and take good care of her father as long as she is strong and brave. - The man in the boat keeps the wrappers of chicken…

their shoulders knowing the child is always in good hands. Bre is my best friend and her mother hovers more than a Robinson R44, one of the world’s most popular helicopters. Facing a hard life and seeing some of its worst aspects makes a parent want better for his/her child, but is hovering the answer? One of the main reasons my best friend’s mom keeps a close eye on her daughter is because growing up, her mother never had someone that paid attention to her. She got to come and go as she…

How did she overcome the struggles of being a woman in a man’s field? How she manages the balancing act of a mom, a career woman, and a student furthering her degree? How hard was it for Mr. Mike to become a “Mr. Dad” when he was raised where the mother did “everything”? How was being a “bayou boy” growing up? How hard was it moving from Arkansas to Louisiana? How different is living with an Arkansas native? What struggles they had to overcome as a couple? What made them as a couple so strong?…

and got married at the age of 25 to another Portuguese immigrant. When my mom was born she had to learn both English and Portuguese as her father and mother rarely spoke English in the house. Money was always an issue, with the small family of three barely scraping by. Both my mom’s dad and mother smoked heavily, and she was just 9 years old her mother died of lung cancer. Things only got worse from there, her dad smoked more than ever, and went into a dark place after his wife 's death. He…

The first person I decided to interview was my mother Cristina Rosario, I decided to interview her because not only is she a single mother but she was also part of a single parent household as child. I asked her why she thinks single parents often struggle financially. She stated “I believe some single parent households struggle more than others…

I just want to be alone. Mom tries to hold it together for my sake, but I can see the pain in her eyes. Even as a ten-year-old, I know what happened when, two days ago, my dad left in the car and never made it back home. A car crash sent me into this spiral of depression. Just a mistake, an accident, but I can’t even think about what happened. I need to leave this house, because every memory of my dad sends me into a whirlwind of emotions. Everything here reminds me of him; the log cabin, the…

“If Your Parents Are Still Paying Your Bills, You 're not alone” May 21, 2015 The piece that I’ve deicide to write about is on how students like me are still having to ask their parents for money to make ends meet. The reason why I chose this article is because I think it hits home for a lot of us. As a college student, life can be never ending rollercoaster. A lot of us are either going to school full time while working part time or if you’re like me you’re going to school part time and…

Family Issues One time when I was a kid something changed my life. I will never forget what had ever happened to me. It all started after hurricane Katrina, when my parents were getting a divorce. I never wanted that to happen to me in my life but it did any way. First, before all of that happening I was living a good life with a mom and dad who were married and a sister and brother that are my siblings. The reason why I loved my parents because 0. they use to spoil me and get me anything I…

Mothers are always going to be caring for their children no matter what they go though. These poems show the morals that the mothers try to pass on to their sons to succeed in life. Both of them are pretty strict and straight forward with their words but try to be kind in a way that their sons would understand what they went through. In the poems, “My Mother” by Robert Mezey and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughs, there is a direct correlation between the relationship of mother and son, the…