I decided to interview my grandmother about her work experiences. I felt the best way to format her answers was chronologically. The personal and biographical questions were used to re-create the story of her life focusing on her work experiences and the factors that have influenced them‚ with a few evaluative questions and her answers at the end. My grandmother‚ Carmen Claudio was born in Mayaguez‚ Puerto Rico on May 18th‚ 1947. At the age of six‚ Carmen began doing chores around her home. She
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it gets super hot is the elderly.For instance my grandmother‚she is old school and doesn’t like an ac‚so you can just imagine how hot it gets in her house that’s what worries me.The elderly are very fragile and as you might know the older you get the weaker your immune system gets‚that includes the way your body battles the heat‚ so when the temperature hits 100 I find myself worrying about my grandma.Maybe there are some ways to help out my grandmother like installing an ac for her or take her to
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The poem “Child and Insect” written by Robert Druce‚ depicts an innocent child experiencing something that teaches him about the reality of life. The poem reveals vast shifts in young boy’s emotions from excitement‚ to horror‚ to irritation and finally to rage‚ when he finds a grasshopper and realizes the insect pretended to be dead. The child’s temperament is shown through the significance of the title‚ use of sensory imagery and use of form and structure. The title‚ ‘child and insect’‚ is significant
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My grandmother’s house - Kamala Das About Kamala Das: Kamala Das is one of the best poets in contemporary Indo-Anglian literature. Kamala Das‚ born in Kerala in 1934‚ is a bilingual writer. She writes in Malayalam‚ her mother tongue‚ under the pseudonym Madhavikkutty. Her poetry is an exploration of the geography of her own mind‚ and the lyric is an instance of such self-exploration. Through images of repulsion and horror‚ she brings out the emotional emptiness and sterility of her married
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WD Commentary Emily Dickinson’s main purpose in poem 355 is to describe an indefinable depression. She creates a melancholy persona to depict the chaos and despair she feels because of her condition. Her poem is structured around her uncertainty towards her mental state. Dickinson‚ in the first two stanzas‚ eliminates possibilities to what she may be feeling. She analyzes that “it was not death”‚ “it was not night”‚ “it was not frost”‚ “nor fire”. The poem appeals to the human sense of touch‚ as
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lady‚ represents her misguided moral code. When the grandmother prepares for the car trip with the family‚ she dresses up to be prepared for a car accident so that anyone seeing her dead body would know that she’d been a lady. The grandmother seems to be entirely unconcerned with the fact that she’s dead in this scenario and oblivious to the fact that other people—including her three grandchildren—would have probably died as well. For the grandmother‚ the only thing that matters is her standing as a
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They don’t see how well they have it while the outsiders are sitting around‚ waiting for someone to understand them. I was sitting there‚ but I wasn’t there. I was in my own land of creativity where I can be anyone and be anywhere. Today‚ I chose the life of a star athlete‚ popular‚ loved. But all of a sudden‚ I snapped out of my dreamlike state. Why does everything have to revolve around popularity? Why can’t it be simpler? Why can’t we all just be happy and ourselves around everybody? Because
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My Great- Grandmother‚ My Best Friend Everyone has a special person in their family that they are closer to than anyone else. For as long as I can remember‚ Shorty was my favorite great- grandmother of them all. She was not just a beautiful and special person to me‚ she was also one of my best friends. I was able to tell her just about anything‚ and she always knew exactly what to do or what to say. Ever since I was a young girl‚ I would spend school breaks‚ especially the long and hot summers
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My Grandmother’s Love Letters BY HART CRANE There are no stars tonight This first stanza is about memory‚ the letters aren’t even mentioned. Key words But those of memory. Yet how much room for memory there is In the loose girdle of soft rain. There is even room enough For the letters of my mother’s mother‚ Elizabeth‚ That have been pressed so long Into a corner of the roof That they are brown and soft‚ The second stanza is about his memory of the letters. He is saying there is enough room in
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My most favorite place has always been my grandmother’s house. This is the place I would have to go to before and after school. I have always loved my grandmother’s house because it made me feel safe and warm. There was a smell of coffee in the air at all times. It seemed as if all my grandmother did was make coffee. If I smell coffee‚ I instantly think of my grandmother’s house. My grandmother’s house will always be filled with people. I can remember sitting in a chair watching her do hair
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