Talal

In seventh grade my mother, Ayiesha Alizai Sadik (Ayiesha Alizai at the time,) got into a fight. The quarrel was broken up quickly, but it was a fight nonetheless. It was Halloween and another girl at her private girls’ school wanted my mother’s candy, so she reached into my mom’s locker to take it. My mom told her to stop it, so the girl pushed her into her locker. Even though the girl was twice her size, my mom whacked the girl with a clean swing of her backpack and the fight was broken up. She was considered the victor. At that hoity-toity girls school there was zero tolerance for pilfering, so the thief was expelled. Most teachers, parents, and students agreed that my mother was not to blame for the incident but she could not get away with just hitting another kid and was thusly suspended. Such an incident was unheard of in the history of the school. Classmates were impressed by this foreign display of brute superiority and were in awe of my mother, so her social status was elevated considerably. At Seven Bridges Middle School this would not be noteworthy. Small quarrels are very common at this public school. It seems that something of the magnitude described above would be nothing due to either economic differences or having males in the school. Most of the students going to schools in the Chappaqua Central School District come from well-off families, as did the students at my mother’s school. The reason a minor incident was such a big deal at that school was because they were uncommon since there were no boys at the school. When girls are in groups they more able to talk openly about their problems whereas boys become reticent and aloof, according to The Institute for Psychohistory. Boys feel ashamed of their weaknesses and try to prove superiority through physical strength.

you need to take longer to expand your thouhgts. most of teh essay is teh anecdote adn you explaining it adn why it was bad. explain more about what it has to do with gender.-GLR