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Persuasive Essay On Children

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My freshman year of high school my Uncle was finally getting married. My family all flocked north to the foreign land of New Jersey, where you can’t even pump your own gas. Driving to New Jersey my only problem on my minds was memorizing the passage I had to read in the ceremony in front of my entire family, not listening to my family get into a heated debate about when giving to charity, how much was too little and what was too much to the point of idiotic. With the good news of the wedding reached my great uncle Wayne, he came out of hiding to join in the celebration. After the wedding ceremony and my excellent performance, we all drove to a house on top of a hill that overlooked New Jersey wildlife. I was wearing this ridiculous pink and navy blue dress that was so big in the bust I felt like I was swimming. My grandmother picked it out so my mom forced me to wear it. Now being 15 I was prompted to the adult table which seemed great not hearing kids fight over petty thoughts, boy was I wrong. Sitting between my grandparents and great uncle the only topic of conversation was obviously religion. After the 15 minutes of calm before the storm, my grandmother asked Wayne “What have you been up to?”. Those 6 words were the spark of a fierce argument which I would be dragged into.
“Glad you asked Mary, last week I went to pick up James Clark a recently released convict. But driving home he grabbed the wheel and we crashed into a pole and I swear it was an act of God we both

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