Personal Narrative Essay

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There is a lot of things in my life that I and other people in my family were treated unfairly, as well as we were not given an opportunity that we felt that we deserved. My family and I have suffered many times in our lives such as being unemployed due to jobs being cut off or medical problem, people acting rude to us, having to have been kicked out of house we rented before, not getting paid well at work, people around the neighborhood not doing my family or myself a favor because ‘they can’t at the moment’, and more than those. Here is something that recently happened to me and my mother in which we were treated unfairly which was I was taking a test in my last period class, AP Chemistry, and I stayed to finish it for ten minutes more. When I walked out the school, the lady who takes me home was not there. Every day, a lady that lives in the end of the block where I live in, she used to give …show more content…

I had to go back inside the school because it was cold outside and I was terribly sick. I called the house from the school’s phone, I informed my mom that I did not see my ride any where and to tell my brother to pick up. However my brother was not at home at the moment. As she was walking out the house, she saw Esmeralda’s car passing by in her truck. My mom asked to why she did not tell her that I did not come with her. Miss Esmeralda told my mom that I just did not come with her and my mom immediately got upset and she started to tear up, telling her that was cruel thing to do. Esmeralda rolled her car window up and drove off without saying anything, leaving my mom crying in the street. Soon after that, my mom went to one of our neighbors that were kind enough to go pick me up from school. I was pretty upset that the lady could do such a thing as not waiting on me and not informing my mom that I did not go with

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