Descriptive Essay About My Mother

She was courageous and bold and she accomplished great feats to rescue others. Everyone adored her for being heroic. The stories always involved her riding and shooting though she couldn’t ride a horse or shoot a gun. The girl took great pride in the fact that she helped her father with the chores on the farm. Her main chore was to water the foxes.

Then after the goat would move the line the trap would sling many arrows at the goat, and this time the fox camouflaged the trap so well he thought the goat would not spot the trap. But the goat saw the fox building the trap. But the goat did not see that after he would make his foot moved the line arrows would shoot. When the goat got back to the barn he made night vision glasses. So he could look clearly and break the fox’s trap, also the glasses go find camouflaged things.

In France, Italy and Ireland they are thriving fox hunts. In many parts of France: foxes, hares, wild boars, and mink are all hunted. People who support fox hunting believe that it is a sport and a way of preventing foxes from overrunning the countryside. Many of the people who support fox hunting are farmers and they believe that foxes are pests that ought to be hunted because they carry all sorts of nasty diseases that could be dangerous and perhaps even fatal to humans and other animals. Foxes eat farmer's chickens, other livestock, and their crops and therefore they believe that they have a right to kill the fox.

'Well, maybe some day, when I have the time, I may teach you a few of the simpler ones,' replied the fox airily. Just then they heard the barking of a pack of dogs in the distance. The barking grew louder and louder - the dogs were coming in their direction! At once the cat ran to the nearest tree and climbed into its branches, well out of reach of any dog. 'This is the trick I told you about, the only one I know,' said the cat.

As June progresses through the journey into finding herself, she came to know that her mother wish was to reunite her sister with her family because after all Suyuan meant long-cherished wish. Suyuan was the person who gave her daughter the pendant that helped her overcome the obstacles and was the factor that furthermore boosted June’s confidence in recovering her mother’s wish. According to June, she was nothing like her mother but she has forgotten the bond that only blood related relatives share. There is only one fact that June could not change which helped her find her twins sisters and that was the unmistakable facial features that the daughters had in common with their mother. June says, “The gray-green surface changes...open in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish”(332).

Being that she is a great role model, my mother’s support and presence in my life has allowed me to grow as a person, keep my spirits high through hell and high water, prosper in all that I have done, as well as mold me to be a great person in the future. One of the many jobs a mother has is to help ensure that a child grows throughout the various stages of their

She said, “I’m a grandmother, my love for you is just like having another daughter.” I realized that she was my biggest supporter and teaching me how to be independent was something she did from the bottom of her heart. She also felt that since my father wasn’t in my life that I deserved to have all the support from family. My mother is a single mom and my grandmother stepped up to the plate and helped where my mom fell short. I will always have the up-most respect for my grandmother because she went over and beyond for me. I felt as though my grandmother did everything out of love and not because she felt obligated to.

Margaret Wise Brown was truly fascinated by animals, and she understood children’s attraction to animals. Tellingly, when Brown reflects on her childhood she mentions her “thirty-six rabbits, two squirrels…a collie dog, and two Peruvian hens, a Belgian hare, seven fish, and a wild robin who came back every spring” (Days Before Now). From this information about Brown, one understands where her love of animals originated--her childhood. Additionally, animals were kind to her and did not restrict or belittle Brown the way some individuals did regularly. Brown was allowed to have constant interaction with animals, which proved to be influential in her writing career.

Although “The Grave” seems to be about two children playing in their grandfather’s grave, it is actually about the realization of gender roles, coming of age, and mortality. Katherine Anne Porter wanted the reader to look beneath the surface of the story to find the many different underlying meanings. The main character Miranda is faced with the cold hard truth that life isn’t always sweet and pleasant as she watches her brother kill and skin a pregnant rabbit. Being a nine-year-old tomboy Miranda doesn’t think twice about going off hunting with her brother, Paul. As well as never putting a second thought into wearing her overalls, even though in the year 1903 young ladies were supposed to be wearing dresses.

PICTURE 10 OWL IN HOLLOW TREE “ Hiccups! I knew you would come back. I have cut a heart shape hole in the barn door, and I made you a nest out of wood and straw. You can fly in and out at night and hunt for mice." the nice farmer said, smiling.