Personal Narrative Analysis

Since my younger years I have been compelled to differentiate between enduring and overcoming. From my parent’s divorce, our financial instability and my multiple social dislocations, I had to learn to adapt to ever-changing environments and circumstances. Before my grandfather died he shared with me one of his favorite quotes and one that I will never forget, which says that, “the key to life is found by

Turmoil and survival. I am a child of genocide survivors. My parents have shared with me stories of what they saw as children running towards the Thai border from Cambodia as they were fleeing from the Khmer Rouge. They left their homes and came to America for a better life. Their stories gave me courage to survive my own turmoil. They always told me to focus in school and do well so I can be successful. However, school was not the easiest thing for me. I’ve always struggled and there were multiple times where I just wanted to give up. I was bullied in 8th grade which caused me to go into a depression. This caused me to give up on life in general. What kept me going were my parents’ stories. While my parents had their journey dealing with their experiences, I have had to deal with experiences in my own way as well. As a result of my self-realization, I began to my journey of rediscovery. I was determined to take back my life. Along the way of my educational journey, I learned that I am just like my parents who never gave up. Throughout my high school experience so far, I discovered what it means to persevere as a student with bad teachers.

From the time I was born until the age of twelve, my family struggled with the basic necessities of life. My father worked endless hours in a factory, and yet somehow came home with a smile on his face. As a young kid, I never knew we were struggling. The thought had never occurred to me. As I got older I started to realize that my single father was working his life away to care and provide for his two little girls. He completely put aside his well-being because as long as his girls were cared for, nothing else mattered. Life was never easy, but as a young adult today, I have come to accept that my background has been a prerequisite for greatness, for it is our backgrounds that define who we are. The way we are raised, the way we are taught to believe, and the way we are taught to act, make us who we are today.

When my parents divorced, I stepped up and I took care of my siblings when my mother could not. In doing so, all the challenges I faced from then on, I faced them all alone. Therefore, my mother would not have to worry about me and focus on herself and my sisters. Living in a house of four my not seem so difficult but when you are the glue that holds the family together, there is no room for error. When my oldest sister dropped out of high school, all the pressure went on me to do better in school, graduate, and go to college. Teachers, security guards, my parents told me I have-to graduate and go to college to get a better life than them. It was like a record stuck on repeat, everywhere I go I was faced with the same lecture. With being told what to do and how to live my life I fell into depression the first semester of my senior year. This was one of my biggest challenges I had to face, I was left alone to figure out a puzzle with missing pieces. Listening to everyone tell me I have-to this and that with my life makes me sick to my stomach. What if I am not interested in going to college? What if I just drop everything and leave? What if can define today from tomorrow. Slowly realizing that only I can pick myself up and carry myself to where I want to be in life, helped me realize I can work to the best of my ability and set goals for myself. one of my goals is to go to Loyola University and to Major in Forensic

Life is a beautiful struggle are words that I live by. Almost five years ago my life became one big rollercoaster. I had just lost my father and had given birth to my son when my mother had become ill. She had been having these debilitating headaches that were affecting her normal day to day activities. The doctor diagnosed it as a sinus infection. After the 3rd prescription for antibiotics I told my mother she needed to have an MRI done. All along I knew in the back of my mind what the diagnosis would be but I didn’t want to believe it was happening to my mother. That following Sunday she had a seizure further more confirming my suspicions of a brain tumor. Later that

"All happy families resemble one another ; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" (Leo Tolstoy). Unlike joyful families you'd habitually recognize, you'd be astounded to realize my family is notoriously unhappy. The fact being, we have witnessed tragedies and have been driven to despair. As a result, these horrific, scarring experiences have made me resilient nonetheless indomitable.

My family were the ones that built me up. My parents got a divorce in 2014, the summer after 8th grade year. I am the daughter of a loving mother, father, and stepmother. My older brother, Tyler, moved out as soon as he graduated high school in 2014. He and I were very close but when given the opportunity to leave, he took it so I had to learn to how to be adaptable. All these things have taught me that change it good. Change shouldn’t be scary and going through it as many time as I’ve, it gets easier every time. My parents divorce took a cliché toll on me, especially going

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Making cautious decisions are very critical right now; I have no choice but to get to higher ground because there are six people left in the game including my teamate and I. We are pushing to a moutain when suddenly we hear gunshots coming from our southeast. I yell at my teammate tell him that there is two enemys to our north and one to our southeast. We come to an agreement that we are going to push the hill to our west to take the higher ground but the enemy is playing with perfect tactics to make sure that he pushes us with great force. I could tell that the person we were faceing was great at the game and played at a very high skill level. As I am running to the mountian to the west, my teammate decides he wants to face the person that

As the second half started, I started to feel confident in myself. Leuzinger started attacking very quickly. They kept taking shot and crossing the ball, but I just kept blocking the shots, I felt unstoppable. They started getting more dangerous as the minutes goes by. We were defending most of the time in the second half and were not getting many opportunities to score. As the game is coming closer to an end, our defender cause a foul, so they were rewarded a free kick. I start to set up my wall with four of our players as they are protecting the right side of the goal. I go towards the middle as the referee allows the player to shoot the free kick. My heart was racing, I hear the crowd cheering all over the field, the coaches screaming at

While we each have our own personal obstacles that we have to endure, I have taken both the positives and negatives from growing up and applied them in my life as an adult. When other individuals only saw the negative aspects to my childhood with both an alcoholic father and stepmother, I found the positive! I knew exactly what type of wife and parent I wanted to become. My husband tells me that I am his “best friend” and my two daughters call me a “superhero”. Neglect in my early childhood also taught me to be a parent who is present in my daughters’ lives and this is why I became very involved in their Title I school (containing more than 80% low socioeconomic status [SES] students). This awakened a desire in me to pursue and complete

I was at home, it was most likely may and I did not remember a lot because so much was happening at the same time. First my brothers told me that "when my parents took my sister to the doctor she was transferred to Lurie children hospital of Chicago".When I heard my heart sank and I first I didn't believe it until my dad came home late and showed us pictures of my sister laying in a hospital bed with a tube down her throat because she could not breathe properly. My dad told us that "she had a lung collapse and that she was very sick".

Albert Einstein said, “In the middle of every difficulty lies an opportunity.” I used to be skeptical about this quote, that nothing positive could possibly come out of any hardship. But I was proven wrong as I learned how to overcome difficult situations that helped me mature. As a child I always had an idea that if you were a good person, only good things would happen to you. At the age of eight, the only problem kids should have to face was what toy they wanted with their kids’ meal. During that age, I was forced to face a more complex obstacle; both my parents were incarcerated and taken away from me. Just when I thought I was living a normal childhood, I had to realize how harsh the real world was like.

Throughout my life, I have been through many difficult times in my life. At only eighteen, I never thought that I would fall in love with an addict, who opened my eyes and changed my life. I now firmly believe that facing difficult challenges in life brings you closer to those you love while learning about who you are as a person.

When I was four, everything that I had ever known was lost in a matter of days. As a saddened and confused child, I adjusted my life, not knowing what exactly I needed to do, just knowing that was going to get through it. I did not know it at that time, but that event would forever shape my life and belief about changing your own destiny and fate. As my life continued, I got used to living in two houses and this became the new normal for me. I worked hard to make the situation work for me. Instead of blaming my parents for their divorce and taking the responsibility off of me, I worked hard over the years to make an unfortunate situation better. As other problems have come up in my life, I took the same approach to solving them. The same