Personal Narrative: The Day My Mom Had To Obey The Law

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I remember a time when I did a right thing that does not mean obeying the law. My mom was born in Mexico. She does not have her citizenship papers. She Works for a cleaning company. She has night shifts so she usually leaves at 6:00pm and gets off 2:00am. She works with two other people to help her clean buildings. She has to vacuum, mop, take trash out, and clean all windows. One of her workers handle the job so they quit. My mom has been working for this company for over 6 years. She always talks about how much she hurts. Sometimes at nights, she cries because she cannot quit because she has things to pay. One day she was walking all around the house speaking Spanish saying she should leave early. I told her what was wrong because she was …show more content…

I was begging her to take me and saying I did not want her to be working two times harder because she was 52 years old. After a while, she said I could and it was a risk because I was under age and I could lose my mother job. I knew that if I never went with my mom she would had been such in pain and could always punish myself for doing something about it. However, I took that risk and helped my mother out. I have been helping her for more than 3 weeks until the women came back or until my mom could find someone else to work with her. At the end of every week, my mother would get payed and always wanted to give me half of the money because I did half the job but I could never take that money. I would feel so bad because I just wanted to help her make that job easier for her. She always complain about me refusing her money because I helped her for what she would get payed for and me not excepting it would make no sense. I told her she needed the money I would have not needed used the money for good use. I do not understand how people that comes into this country without paper and has been living here their whole life’s even if they do not have any criminal record could get at least a good paying

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