Sophie Kinsell The Undomestic Mother

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For my essay, I chose the quote “ There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”-Sophie Kinsella, The Undomestic Goddess. I have always believed that life is tough. Sometimes we don't know why bad things happen to us, but it always works out in the end. To me, the word resilient means to be able to bounce back and stay undamaged. No matter what challenges come your way in life, nothing can ruin it. Life may not be going the way you want it at that time, but it’ll always end well. It may not be fun at times, maybe life will test your strength and patience, but it won’t be ruined. You could make any mistake or decision good or bad and everything will be okay. Humans are already very tough and dominant …show more content…

The mother always went along with it. Jeannette loved her father a lot, but as she grew up she realized her was a burden to the family. She ever urged her mother to leave her father so they could receive money from the government. Jeannette was already a very tough child, growing up. She was able to fight off an older boy who tried to rape her. She fought him off and was able to walk away. On another occasion, a boy brought a BB gun to her house and tried to shoot her and her siblings. She was to stay strong and chase the boy away men though he pooped her with a pellet. She went hungry a lot of the time as well. She would have to either eat nothing or butter. One time, she ate butter and her mother got mad at her. When Jeannette explained she was hungry, the mother just dismissed it like it was nothing. The father would constantly get fired and then steal money from his wife so he could buy alcohol. He took Jeannette to bars and even let a man try to force himself onto Jeannette. Her family started to run out of money so the father moved them to go live with his mother who was very cruel to the kids.The mother was very evil. She molested Jeannette’s brother,

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