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A Narrative Essay About My Grandma

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A woman, a fight My grandmother had always been a figure of admiration for me and all my relatives .She is considered like the pillar of our family. The old age had slightly tired her but its strong and ambitious character never disappeared. It was not the kind woman that is easily influenced or that could quickly get still when something was wrong she said it loudly and clearly and of course as every strong woman she knew how to use words to arrive at her purposes. My grandfather was all the time teasing her saying “I married the Algerian version of Margaret Thatcher” and he was right, she was our iron lady. One day when I was young I asked her about her past, in Hammamet her homeland she was very famous and liked by everyone so I tried to …show more content…

The electoral law in its article 53, stipulated that every person could vote instead of his spouse, what in our society meant that every man could vote instead of his wife, we had thus concluded that if the women had voted according to their desire, the score of Islamic party would not have been so high. At that time I was one of the members of the AEF (Association for the Emancipation of women), we had started a campaign to repeal the article 53 of the electoral law. I keep an excellent memory of this action, it lasted practically all the summer of the year 1990. At our request, the head of government received a delegation and hopefully the meeting was fruitful because it ended with the satisfaction of our proposal and the electoral law was amended by the abrogation of the article

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