My Autobiography Of My Life

If I wrote an autobiography of my life, it would probably be something like this. I was raised by both of my parents, Pauline and George Starks. My childhood was not the “ideal” childhood. Although, I thought it was until I met my husband and we compared his to mine. Some things that happened to me did not happen in his life. For instance, as a child, my parents move from place to place. They were big gamblers. We were always on the move running from loan sharks and people that they owed money. They would borrow money, sell anything to get to a place where they could gamble. During that time as a child me and my four sibling were put into so many schools I cannot count them all. My mother had only an elementary education, however she was

In class we talked about patriarchy, I could not relate much to this topic on a personal basis because the household I was raised in was a matriarchy. My father did not have any power in the household at all. Whatever my mother said was the law of the land. My mother was raised in a small town called Hope, Arkansas in 1937. She identifies with the South. My father was born in Meridian, Mississippi in 1927. He identified with the south. I do not relate much to the southern way of thinking or stereotypes because I was raised in Missouri and some people characterized that area as up “North.” Although, when I look back into my past the main thing that I can think of that both of my parents subscribed to was not valuing education at all. My parents did not ever read a report card, go to a school meeting, or really invest much into my schooling at all. Sometimes because of our frequent moves we would not be enrolled in schools for months at a time. I remember we moved to a small town in Alabama for a few months, my siblings and I did not enroll in school until almost the end of the session. The next school year we were uprooted and taken to another new school. I remember a time when my parents went an away for a while and we went to live with my grandparents for a couple of