Personal Narrative Story: My Grandma, The Mentor?

My Grandma, the mentor

“The biggest lie in the world is that ‘you can’t do it’.”
-- Yongmei Xu, My grandma

It was summer 2012 when my parents were out of town, and my grandma was in charge of my life and study. Although it was during the summer break, I still needed to prepare next year’s High School Entrance Exam, and thus I literally spent the whole summer on taking extra classes and doing model exams.
“I give up.” I said.
“Why do you say that?” grandma asked.
“Because I can’t figure out this stupid question or maybe just like teacher said I am just not smart enough to figure it out. I think I just can’t do it” I replied and threw my pen away. The pen dropped on the ground, rolled slowly and stopped beside my bed. Grandma sighed, walked down to the pen, and picked it up. It seemed that she already got used to my recent

However, unlike other materialistic mothers, who would ask their kids to drop off school due to the family situation, grandma chose to bear all the burden of life. She knew the importance of education and how violent it is to divest this opportunity from her kids. Her parents asked her to marry again for they still believed a woman, especially a woman without highly education, should after all depend on a man. Once again Grandma refused to do so. Moreover, she sat a goal: she would send all five of her children into college. Mission Impossible, that was the precise word that people used to described grandma’s goal, and the reason was simple: grandma was illiterate, which decided that she couldn’t find a well-paid job. Grandma never gave up, however. She worked in the printing factory in the daytime and went to the Literacy School at night. Eventually, she graduated from the school and was assigned to work in the village government. She sent all her kids, five of them to the college. Mission impossible