He always abused my mother, even me and my brother, when he was not happy for something. In my memories, he didn’t teach me anything, include knowledge, skills, and even games, except his yelling, vituperation and violence. All of these made me very quiet, very sensitive, and more self-center. I felt unsafe and be ready to protect myself all the time. When I grew up till I was eighteen, I left home right away.
Her father had kept her away from any experience with love that she might ever have known. He was the only person that Emily loved and cared for, until she met Homer Barron. The loneliness in Miss Emily’s life was the cause of her failure to let go of the ones that she loved. For instance, her father was the only person that she had, so when he died, she refused his death so that she could hold onto him to have him in her life still. So the reason that Emily killed her lover, Homer, was to keep him in her
My parents were (and still are) very cold. I received spankings and beatings with a belt whenever my parents thought I needed it. I was a normal child getting into my share of trouble as I grew up. There was no discussion of rules or input from the children in my family. My mother was the disciplinarian.
My mother nor my father bothered to take an active role within my life so therefore I had been living with my great-grandmother since I was an infant. Today, I have the utmost love and respect for her and everything that she and my grandfather had done and are still doing for me, but at the time I was a bitter teenager who did not understand why my family situation was so grim. Although my mother wasn’t completely absent within my life, time and time again she had chosen narcotics over me and my younger sister and was content with us living with my grandmother and not her. In her mind, and to this day she still believes that it is best that we are/were with her ignoring what having an absentee mother psychologically does to her children. She tended to visit and call us at her leisure, and for that I was spiteful.
Shantel Labon PSY 160 February 10th 2012 When I first read this assignment, I was like how does she want me to go back to conception leading to my current age? I don’t remember when I was a baby. Well, I am an only child and I will admit that I’m very spoiled and I always want things my way. Until a few years ago I was a very irresponsible person , leaving my kids with my mom all the time, spending down to my last dime, getting my self into all kinds of debt, and just not being thoughtful of the people who cared about me, all because I knew I had mommy and daddy to back me up. Don’t get me wrong I’ve always worked hard, but I’ve made some very unwise choices in my life.
By that meaning, when Amy Tan was a kid, she saw how her mother had difficulties in the society because the lack of communication. Therefore, when she grew up, she learned English in the right and correct way and became a successful writer. This is similar to a time when I was in her situation, I was ashamed of my parents broken English wherever they go, I had to speak for them; their limited English reflected the quality of what they had to say. That is because they weren’t able to express their thoughts, the correct way and nobody was taking them seriously, it was because of their broken English language, they were not getting good services
That, that was when i started building up anger in me every day, to get rid of some anger i cut. i never told anyone not even Ashley i started to get jealous of her it made me so mad to thing she is perfect and i am ugly, but as she is my best friend she found out i was depressed. She talked to me we cried, we laughed, i can't forget what she told me " you are perfect Amanda, you are the light to my day you bring life to my world.... who am i kidding you are my world and promise me nothing i mean nothing no one will ever break us apart" i promised her "cause Amanda you are the love of my life my one and only best friend i love you don't forget that, you can always tell me anything" i said i knew that but it
Society is facing a bullying problem. One that has effected our youth for generations. My ideas on this matter stem from a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Bullying is a problem that continues to plague the nation; however, the increased efforts to combat this problem through anti-bully assemblies have been ineffective due to their principle of punishing the bully rather than helping the victim. I have spent the last twelve years of my life in the central bullying station - public school. In those twelve years, I have witnessed all forms of bullying and have been bullied myself.
This was a very dark time in my life and a young child should never have to go through this. I used to blame myself for my parents getting a divorce. As I got older and could understand that a family should be a mom, a dad, and children, I realized something was wrong with my family. My dad was not in the picture and my mom and him were constantly fighting. For some reason I thought since I was the last one born it was my fault.
One day , it was an even harder day at school than usual , and so I came home upset and did not eat which was a big concern to my mother as I could never say no to food. So I was in my room watching television and my mother came in asking me what was wrong and I casually answered her , “nothing” , but she being my mother understood and said in the most affectionate manner , “I am always here for you.” Those words touched me and since that day I was an open book to my mother and she the same to me. Yes , even though it sounds cliché , but , my mother has been and has had a great influence on me and to me. And , has been my hero. She met my father and after a few years she bore him one daughter , me.