Running Head: FARM GIRL 1 Assignment 1.2: Summary and Personal Response (Farm Girl-Revision Option) Renee Maynard FARM GIRL 2 In this essay entitled “Farm Girl” written ever so diligently by Jessica Hemauer. Who brings her memoir to life by clearly and specifically detailing how her life growing up on a farm has affected her, and molded her into the woman she is today. One of my favorite quotes in this essay is stated early in her story when she says, “It seems our daily lives operate in shifts, not like a real family” (Hemauer, pg.84). That statement for me stood out as a strong and bold sentence. It's certainly not a sentence she could communicate to her parents.
‘I’m not hungry and I don’t want it wasted.’” (Pg. 16) She also helped her neighbor, Weaver’s mama, to look after Emmie the widowed mother as well. “I packed Tommy and Jenny off to school, hoping that by the time I got to the Hubbards’, Weaver’s mamma would already be there. She was better at getting Emmie out from under the bed than I was.” (Pg. 18) Jennifer Donnelly is showing that no matter how unpleasant the task may be that neighbors look after each
Even though the young woman wants to tell her grandma about everything, she doesn’t have to. Grandma knows what the world is like. She knows that this is going to be a great adjustment for her granddaughter and that when the young lady is ready to talk she will be ready to hear every experience, every weird thing she sees, and all the new knowledge she is gaining. Until that time it is enough for them both to just set on the porch and snap beans. “Nighttime Fires” show’s a little higher degree of understanding.
She talks about the books she has hidden under her bed; she reminds her siblings to do their homework and takes great pleasure in reciting new words to her sister and teacher. Mom is often talking or playing or feeding one of the other kids so Mary has taken her time alone to further educate herself. In many single parents homes children see the almost unbearable struggle that their parent has to bear and this would serve as encouragement to the child, to excel in his or her studies to secure a better future for them. A better education will lead to a better job and a more secure
It’s as if the Ranch Girl has stepped outside her body and is narrating the story herself, but with a hint of unfamiliarity. It’s about a young white girl, not rich, but not poor either, but because she was raised on a ranch, she considers herself just a little lower class than most middleclass white kids she goes to school with and not once has a girl from school, come out to her house. Her dad is the foreman on Ted Haskell’s Running H ranch. Both her dad and Haskell’s wives have run off, to leave the two men raising teen daughters on their own. While the hired hands live and eat in the bunkhouse, their foreman has his own house and usually falls asleep sipping a can of beer while eating crackers and cheese.
A) How does Hemauer use dialogue in the essay? Hemauer uses dialogue to engage her readers into her story and experiences while living on the farm with her family. Dialogue helped to make her story more believable. B) How do you plan to use dialogue and sensory descriptions in your own narrative essay? I plan to use dialogue and sensory descriptions in my future essay not only to get my readers to get a more profound feel for my experiences but to also create a believable world that allow them to escape and become a part of the
ENG 101/A05 June 13th, 2011 RR two Bobbie Ann Mason “Being Country” from Clear Springs Bobbie Ann Mason 's autobiography Clear Springs : A Memoir brings us back to her life in Mayfield where she uses physical images for her youth, the routines and rhythms of farm life, and constant concern for food, home-grown, home-cooked food to illustrate rural experience, her journey in exploring the world ,discoveries through her family generation and embracing her own culture .She shares her adventure in finding the greater world outside their little dairy farm , success and failure and in the end unraveling the importance of her family that holds her rooted. Bobbie narrates her life in Mayfield, illustrating Kentucky and the kind of life, the
She is one of eight children, although one brother died when he was 2 years old. 3. She was a farm girl and one memory she shared was when she was in 2nd grade she was tasked with herding up the cows and bringing them in for milking and her father was
Girls did chores like sweeping, feeding animals, milking cows, watering horses, running errands, picking berries from the forest, gathering vegetables and spices from the garden, taking eggs from the chickens, making candles and soap, helping make meals, cleaning, and caring for babies. Girls’ education was not very elaborate, they were taught to read the Bible (religion was very important to New Englanders). Boys, alternatively, helped their fathers hunt and harvest dinner and chop down trees for firewood. When the boys turned seven, they became apprentices to a cooper (worked with wood and fixed wooden furniture), a silversmith (worked with silver and made silverware), or any other common job. Boys schooling included math, Latin, and other subjects needed to get into college.
Professor: Roger Fontana English Composition-115 4/19/15 As I was reading Jessica Hemauer “Farm Girl” I felt a great connection to her story. I chose her because I am a country girl as well, who went through similar things as she did. Early as a child my Grandmother had a farm which I worked like Ms. Hemauer, being young and wanting to enjoy childhood should be the normal life. But it’s not up to the child, especially when you haft to earn your keep or help your Family survive no matter what your age is. Some may think that’s abuse or wrong to make a child work as hard as she did, but when that child grows up.