Yolanda Valenzuela's Essay 'Generation'

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I am very proud to have completed assignment two, “Generations.” I was given the opportunity to interview my mom, Yolanda Valenzuela, who is forty-years old and part of Generation X. My mom does not like to talk about her childhood, but since I told my mom it was for a writing assignment in English 101, she couldn’t say no. I had conducted ten questions to ask my mother hopefully getting details and information of how she played from ages eight to ten. I was glad to get answers like, “I would play kickball, hide and go seek, tag, and cops and robbers” and she described her play area as, “A typical backyard with one large tree and filled with grass.” I was glad to learn more about my mom and compare and contrast our generation of play for my essay, “The Outsiders.” For example, my play area was at Lawrence park in Tucson, AZ and my mom’s play time was at her grandma’s backyard in Houston, Texas. …show more content…

I am able to add more detail and be specific giving my audience a mind picture of what I am describing. For example, in unit writing one “Public Space” I described the smells I inhaled at Adelphi Commons, “I smell the pasta being cooked; the aroma coming from the small kitchen window. The sweet taste sensation I get from the scented lotion of mixed berry.” Also, I had to give a description of what my mural would look like after being completed “I see a bright, colorful painting on the hard brick wall that stands out from all seven ft. and thirty ft. wide grey/brown brick walls” allowing my reader to understand and see what I am writing

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