Alessandra

 What Was The True Difference?

When I found out that we were going to do essays based on interviews, I knew the first person that I wanted to interview: my grandma. After, when I found out that we could interview two people to contrast their stories, I knew the second person that I wanted to interview: my mom. I contrasted their stories specifically because their stories were almost exactly the same with the exception that my grandmas grandma lived with her and my moms grandma did not live with her. I asked some questions that they had the same answers to and some were different. First I asked where they grew up and my grandma said that she grew up in the Bronx, my mom in Brooklyn. The second thing that I asked was how many siblings they have. My mom had, and grew up with four brothers, all of them younger then her. My grandma had five brothers, but grew up with four. The reason being that one of her brothers died as a baby.

Both my mother and grandmother grew up with the people that inspired them the most. My mother believes that her mother and father influenced her decision making while she was growing up. She said that her parents influenced her the most to be honest, good, and kind adults, and that you don’t need much to have a happy fulfilling life My grandmother said that her mother and her high school teacher influenced her growing up. She was always telling my grandma that if she worked hard, she could succeed when trying to achieve her goals.

Then I asked where did they move when they moved away from home and both my mother and grandmother had the same response. They moved in an apartment to be with the ones they loved after they got engaged (mom) and married (grandma).    Ray- I thought you could use more anecdotes but good context