My mother was beautiful. She had smooth porcelain skin and light brown eyes that captivated everyone. Every morning, she would wake up as hues of pink, orange, and yellow painted the empty blue sky to cook a nutritious dish for my siblings and I. She would have padded down the hall and out the door, careful to not wake any of us up and head to work. While she was gone, my siblings and I always played with each other. But whatever we did, we always had our mom on the back of our minds. When my mom was home, we would play with her until we dropped. Days would go by with this same consistent routine and it was perfect. We had a loving mother figure in our lives and nothing could have been better than that. Things never go as planned. One morning, light illuminated my room as a blinding flare punched me in the eyes. There was a burning smell that permeated the corridors of the house. My stomach churned and I scrambled to my feet to wake up my older sister Julia. Her eyebrows furrowed and her nose twitched as she got up and strode towards the smell. I felt as if my heart were about to burst as I sat back and remained under the comforting warm embrace of my covers. Julia cautiously opened the door just wide enough to peek through. To her horror, there was the sight of my mother talking to what seemed like an entity and lighting up photos of our grandparents on fire. A few days passed and things had seemed to go back to its normal state. Of course, things were never going to be
The sayings goes back to “ Two wrongs don’t make a right”. Catalina de Erauso is born a “normal” girl. Has a “normal” family with sisters and brothers that can be verified. She writes in her memoir “ My parents, Captain don Miguel de Erauso and dona Maria Perez de Galarraga y Arce, were native-born residents of the town, and they raised me at home with my brother and sister until I was 4”. Yet as a women, her rumbustious cloudy judgement and her outrageous exploits leads her to commit countless of crimes: murder, evading the authorities, disturbing the peace and coming assault.
One day, at three years old, she was cooking hot dogs in her family’s trailer house in Southern Arizona. Her mother was too busy painting and her father was at work, so it was up to her to feed herself. While cooking, she hadn’t even realized that her dress was on fire. It was only moments after when she felt it on her skin and began screaming. Jeanette’s mother extinguished the fire and asked the neighbors for a ride to the hospital, since her father had taken the car to work.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of thousands of Japanese Americans, including Mama and her family. As they are uprooted from their home and forced into internment camps, Mama’s character undergoes a profound transformation that shapes her identity and her role in the community. Mama from Farewell to Manzanar is a strong and courageous woman who fought for her family’s survival during World War II. She evolves from a passive victim of discrimination to a powerful and compassionate leader who navigates her family through the challenges of internment. Her journey underscores the resilience of the human spirit and the power of community in times of adversity.
Jeannette Walls shares that her earliest memory is when she was three years old. She was on fire. Her pink tutu dress had ignited as she was cooking hotdogs for her family unsupervised over the stove. She describes in detail how the flames attacked her side viscously and crept towards her face mercilessly. Her mother was in another room, working on a painting.
The once starry night now resembled a cluster of tiny white smudges engulfed by a grim lifeless mass. Just as my eyes were fully shut, I heard a distant yell, followed by a woman 's piercing shriek. My last thought, “What is happening to me.” “We need to evacuate the building.” “Wake the girl, we have to move, NOW.”
The following night we had caught our grandpa talking “alone” to something behind a bush, he always went out at night claiming that he’s only going to witness the sunset but it’s not true, he stood near that bush and talked a quarter past 9. October 20, 2015 my friend and I planned to sneak out at midnight and witness this mysterious monster, I made sure to tell my grandpa that I would be staying over the night at my friend’s house, he hesitated for a bit, but agreed and insisted to not set foot outside a quarter past 9. I agreed of coursed, and hugged him goodbye – looking over his shoulder I saw a photo of my grandpa and grandma I noticed her heart shaped tattoo with the initial “J’ on her collar bone, I smiled and pulled away from the embrace. Later that night, we got out through the back door at my friend’s house and sprinted to my house.
I would like to take a moment to talk about the two most important and influential people in my life my parents Sabrina and Darren Hardnick. As I sat them down to talk to them about their past and their future I actually learned a lot more about them. It’s true when they say “you learn something new everyday”. Let’s start off with my mother Sabrina Hardnick, well let’s start when she was Sabrina McIntosh. February 14,1975 at Kaiser Hospital (no longer open) in Cleveland, Ohio Sabrina Lattice McIntosh was born.
The event that has shaped me into who I am today is that I am a big sister. I am a big sister to my brother and sister. It has helped me to become a better student in school and class. Having a brother and sister, though it has been a rollercoaster in my life, it has shaped me into who I am today in school and class. I was an only child until I was almost three when my little sister was born.
I picked Mitchell's mom Laura as my first stop. As I walk up to the door I get a sharp feeling in my heart and I fall over. The next thing I know i’m in my house in my bed. I get up and decide to go back to her house. This time when I get there I feel really queasy, but I continue on and knock on the door.
There have been many people in my life who have impacted it both negatively and positively, but no one has had an impact in my life greater than my mom. This woman is just amazing in my eyes, right from the beginning because of the way she raised me, if I had children I would raise them the same way she raised me. The person she is, in general, has really had a great effect in my life, and also how she has always told me about the struggles shes had in her life from the ones I didn't see to the ones I have seen with my own eyes. I believe if I didn't know my mother as well as I do, she wouldn't have influenced me as much as she does. The way my mom raised me has made me the person I am today, so if I were to say she didn't impact my life I would be lying.
I watched my mother fade away slowly as she was battling pancreatic cancer. I looked after her everyday as best as I could; however, the feeling of my eventual solitude was unbearable. The thought of my mother’s imminent demise made me feel like my heart was being continuously stabbed. Watching my mother suffer was one of the hardest things I have ever had to go through. After her passing; something changed in me, darkness filled where love once was.
My Definition of a Hero A hero is “Any person admired for qualities or achievements and regarded as an ideal or model” (“Hero”). When someone hears the word ‘hero’, they most likely think of firefighters, police officers, or soldier. However, the person who comes to my mind when I think of a hero is my mother, Becky Harper. She goes above and beyond each day, displaying characteristics of a hero.
Most people in the world are different in many ways. In fact, some people say no human being on earth has the same fingerprints. On a similar topic, my parents are different in many ways also. Although my mother and father are different in the ways they act, live life, and discipline children, I love them both. First off, my mother and father differ in the ways they act.
My mom, my sweet, gentle mom. My mom is like my sister, we love to talk about juicy stuff and love to share with each other what we did during the day. I don 't like to imagine myself without her because she is basically my life. She is caring and kind and always have a smile on her face when she sees me. When I say her name I get a picture of her in my mind.
I was on the field fighting the night before, we stood together, our spirits linked. The next morning, I was stretched out in an anonymous place where I heard people crying, sobbing. I realised that I couldn’t move my legs anymore- not even if somebody poured lava on it. Petrified with my fist clenched.