Grandmother Interview Essay

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I’m interviewing my mom who didn’t have the best childhood. She was born in El grullo Jalisco she loved it there even if they barely fit in their house. My grandpa later decided to move to Pajacuaran Mich when my mom was only 8 years old. My mom fought to stay in Jalisco but didn’t fought hard enough. Throughout the years my grandma keeped getting pregnant and have miscarriages. If all her sibling would of survived I would of had 24 uncle and aunties but saddly 8 died. Imagine working at age 6 to be able to feed 10 or more people not including yourself. My mom would rather starve then knowing that her sibling haven’t ate. Knowing this changed my whole view for this beautiful hard working lady. I know have more respect towards her. I would never want to go through something like that because I haven’t been able to accept the fact that my grandpa is dead. Image if I had a brother and he died, …show more content…

Grandpa had his own land when he grew corn and raised cow and horses. Grandpa made them pick up corn and milk the cows. Once they were done they would head back home and grandpa would thresh the corn and grandma would separate the milk. My mom was in charge of going to houses and selling milk. They guys would go outside of Pajacuaran to sell the corn. This is one of the reasons why I want to work right now. I feel like I have a responsibility of making them proud by working and making money on my own, even of they say I should just focus on my education because that's something she wished she could of done. That might of been a good memory but fit quickly because badish because she had to leave school and focus her whole time in helping out her parents. Once she told me this everything changed. I understood that if I want to make them proud I have to do good in school and study for something important in life. I need to do what they weren’t able to

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