There are many wonderful people in the world. One of them is my grandmother, Phyllis Pelts. At the age of seventy-three, she continues to make her mark on the world. Standing only five feet tall, nothing can intimidate her. Phyllis, also known as Gran, is a widow and is currently on the road of recovery from a double knee replacement. Not even a double knee replacement can hold her down. She is strong and independant. Gran is always up to date despite her age. She is fashionable, enjoyable, and most importantly, caring. First of all, Gran is not a typical grandma. Devoted to stay involved in life, she cannot just sit around her house all day and do nothing. She supports every one of her grandchildren immensely. Throughout her four grandchildren, she attends every single football, basketball, softball, golf, and baseball game. Also, not to mention other events such as swim meets and dance recitals. Anytime her grandchildren are performing, she is always there in the stands cheering for them. At every single one of my brother’s basketball games you will hear her yell, “GO TYLER! YEAH, MAKE THAT SHOT!” Without a doubt, Gran is over achieving the role of being a grandmother. Secondly, being a grandmother takes on the act of spoiling the grandkids. One of Gran’s favorite hobbies is to go shopping. However, she will not buy anything unless it is on sale …show more content…
or if she has a coupon. Anytime Gran goes shopping, she always has the need to buy a grandkid something. Despite her child telling her to stop buying the grandchildren items, Gran still continues to spoil them. The grandkids will never complain about being spoiled of course. Gran has excellent style selections and always knows what the kids will like. Just recently this week she purchased a pair of black sequin Toms for me. She most likely had a coupon for the pair of shoes. Third, Gran loves to spend her time volunteering at her church. She has been involved in Vacation Bible School (VBS), a week long kids program, since 1970 at various churches. At VBS this year, she taught the fifth and sixth grade class. Not only does she teach during VBS, she also teaches a sunday school class every week. Her sunday school class is composed of elderly people though, not children like in VBS. Lastly, Gran does not only care for her own grandchildren. She is passionate about teaching all kinds of kids at school. Gran loves to teach. She was a full-time teacher for almost twenty-six years. After Gran retired, she wanted to stay involved! She is currently a substitute at Westridge Middle School and has been subbing for seventeen years. Almost every teacher at Westridge knows about Gran. She is always requested to be a sub for many teachers there. Not only to the teachers love her, the students do too! Today, Gran is still going strong. She continues to sub at Westridge. All four of her grandchildren have gone or will go to Westridge. Caleb, her youngest grandchild, will be attending Westridge this year as a seventh grader. Overall, those are just several examples of Gran’s caring attitude.
Caring means to display kindness or concern for others. I can not think of a better person who characterizes that definition. Gran has been caring for students for over forty-two years. She continues to connect with many students from school- including my friends. She is the most caring person I know. There also has not been a time that I can remember of when she was not in a positive attitude. She focuses on the positive situations in life. It is my job to care for her just as much as she cares for me. I could have not asked for a better
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The Grandmother is a bit of a traditionalist, and like a few of O’Connor’s characters is still living in “the old days” with outdated morals and beliefs, she truly believes the way she thinks and the things she says and does is the right and only way, when in reality that was not the case. She tends to make herself believe she is doing the right thing and being a good person when in actuality it can be quite the opposite. David Allen Cook says in hi...
In the beginning of the story the negative characteristics of the grandmother are revealed. She is portrayed as being a very egocentric person. The grandmother is very persistent about getting her way. She appears to be very insensitive of the feelings of the other family members. She consistently tries to persuade the family to go to Tennessee rather than to Florida. Also, she rebelliously took the cat with her on the trip when she knew the others would object. As a result of her selfishness the family had to make a detour to stop and see the house that she insisted upon visiting.
She is a manipulator when it comes to any aspect of her life. Ideally, the grandmother was selfish and care about herself. For instance, when the author has her saying “In case of an accident, anyone seeing her dead on the highway would know at once that she was a lady (O’Connor). The author let it be known at that second that the grandmother was only thinking about herself. As if she was traveling with a group of strangers. Throughout the story, the grandmother shows that she can be dishonest towards her family. “She woke up and recalled an old plantation that she had visited in this neighborhood once when she was a young lady” (O’Conner). The grandmother did this to manipulate the situation causing the ride to be delayed. Thus, she was lying to the children about the secret panel in the house. Therefore, she caused chaos in the car. The author made it seem that the grandmother was very content with that she has caused. Even when she realized that the location of the house that she was referring to was not up that road at all. But she remained quiet or did she know this along. She was quick to judge and tell someone what not to do. But she never turned her eye on herself. That she was selfish and dishonest to her
There are three stages of thought for the Grandmother. During the first stage, which is in the beginning, she is completely focused on herself in relation to how others think of her. The second stage occurs wh...
She manipulates her son and lies to her grandchildren, and nags constantly about the lack of the present. 2. She has no self-awareness and seems unmindful of the things around her. 2. The grandmother thinks that she is the best person to judge others as well as the best person to instruct other people on how to live their lives.
As the above quote shows, parents are customarily seen as willing to to do anything and everything for their children's safety and health. Their perpetual love for their offspring allows them to willingly put themselves in any situation, if it benefits their children. This powerful love also extends greatly to grandparents. Due to their elderly age, many grandparents are viewed as incapable of providing sufficient care for their grandchildren. Although age does act as a roadblock, grandparents love for their grandchildren overcomes this. In “A Worn Path”, a short story written by Eudora Welty, the protagonist Phoenix Jackson defies
The grandmother’s personality is that of the typical human character. We all know someone like her. Some of us, more than likely, are her. The key is to break down those nuances of her and see our own selves within. We see her behavior exposed within the first sentence of the story, “The grandmother didn’t want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every chance to change Bailey’s mind.” (O’Connor, 186) Immediately we are given evidence of a stubborn, will-bending woman. Her personality grows uglier as the story continues, she compares her daughter-in-law’s face to a cabbage, later she sneaks her cat in the car, lies about details of a house to have her way, and soon after even hides the fact that she has the family driving in the...
The grandmother is very judgmental and her actions lead up to her family’s death. She calls a little boy a cute “little pick ninny” and we see her true colors. Pick ninny is a derogatory word towards black people and no good Christian woman would ever say those words (O’Connor 412). The grandmother tries very hard to be a good woman but her actions oppose everything she wants society to believe about her. The grandmother sees that her grandchildren are not the most behaved kids so she tells them they should be good people by listening and showing respect. She wants her grandchildren to have respect for their “native states and their parents and for everything else” (O’Connor 412). She tries to tell her grandchildren to be good
She had prepared herself for death at sixty and then “got over the notion” after she actually became ill and recovered. Cornelia’s attentiveness makes Granny feel old, but her other children, Jimmy and Lydia, still ask her advice, reminding Granny of raising the children. Granny wishes she could show the children to John, her husband who died young and left her to run the house and take on his role. She knows John would be proud of her accomplishments, but would not recognize her now. Endurance is a means of persevering through adversity.
Granny Weatherall is much like the Grandmother in “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” by Flannery O’Connor. Both women, the Granny and the Grandmother, are contemptuous towards their children, as shown by Granny with her shouting and dismissing of her daughter, Cornelia, and her fears. The Grandmother, however, is not just contemptuous of her son, Bailey, but is secretly defiant of him as well.
The grandmother shows throughout the short story that she is concerned for herself only. From the beginning, when she tries to make the family go up to Tennessee because she wanted to, until the end when she only stands up for herself against The Misfit. The grandmother, because she considered herself to be a lady, and few others to be good, saw herself above those around her. She saw something special in herself, which was why she insisted to The Misfit that, “You wouldn’t shoot a lady” (14). Even as her son is taken back into the woods to be shot, she remains still. This combined with the authority that she feels comes with her age and position in the family vault her importance far above that of her family that she is with. Her self-elevation, in turn, affects her morals, as she sees the flaws in others but not in herself, and views it as selfish when others get what they want. The grandmother’s narrow-minded egocentric behavior that she exhibits, along with he...
The grandmother is very adamant. Most humans are stubborn by nature. They refuse to alter their ideas regardless of circumstance. The grandmother was set on visiting Tennessee and visiting Florida was not an option. She did not care at all about why her family wanted to visit Florida. At every chance that arose, she attempted to change Bailey’s mind. She presents Bailey with many reasons as to why they shouldn’t go to Florida, but she doesn’t care at all about those things. She just needs an excuse for her family to go to Tennessee. The grandmother is only interested in her own motives, she pretends to be interested in the children and what is good for them. She dresses up very womanlike so people who didn’t know her would think that she was a lady. She shows that she cares about her self-image a lot and she seems to only care about herself.
One of the joys of being a grandmother is getting a second chance of raising a child with less responsibilities and more time (MHM p,3). Most grandmothers in the book enjoy their time with their grandchildren because it allows them to make up for time lost
She is a multi-talented women with determination and believes if you set your mind your goal there isn't anything that you can't achieve. My grandma wasn't able to be somebody that gave a lot of influence and didn't meet some of her goals, I am proud of her intelligence and how much she was able to do independently. Even as a grandma she loves to learn and presently is learning English. She is almost eighty years old and she looks like she is only sixty. Even now as a grandma, she is active and passionate about education. She encourages me to get a
They say grandparents, are the two most favorite people in the world to children. Grandparents are the main characters of your childhood, they are the ones that leave you with the most beautiful memories of your life. Some grandparent’s teach you a very valuable lesson of life, they teach you respect, hard work, family values, and unlimited love. They show you their love in many ways, they say I love you in words as well as actions. Grandparents are the ones that sometimes get you out of trouble and guide you to the correct path. They show you trust, a trust that cannot never be broken.