Family History connections

After reading the family history blog posts, I thought that many of them were rather interesting. I pattern that I commonly saw was the pattern of some parent suffering in a certain type of way.

In Kristine's blog post, she talks about her mother's life and how she had suffering in her family. Kristine quotes from her mother:

"[My Brother and sister] looked down on me and wouldn’t treat me as in equal. Even my younger brother and sister looked at me as a lower person despite the traditions of respecting your elders. Still, I think it was the influence my dad had on them. They saw how my parents treated me and came with the thoughts that it would be ok to treat me horribly as my parents did." - Kristine Chin

In this quote, Kristine's mother says that throughout her young life, she was being mistreated by her family; even her younger siblings. As a method of escaping such tragedy, she decided to move out and attend college. She continued to life happily away from her family.

In Camal's blog post, he talks about the suffering of his father and some other person named Tom in the heavy rain. In his blog, he states that the rain was so heavy that they needed to get home as quickly as possible. On their way home, there were many obstacles. The final one that had blocked their way home was a four feet deep water that crossed between them and their home. So in the end they waited until the rain stopped and arrived home by crossing the river when the current was not as strong. Basically, in Camal's family story, it discusses about his father's suffering to get home.

In Shiyun's family history blog post, she talks about her mother's life. In her mother's life, Shiyun talks about how much work that her mother endured to continue to live on along with her family. In her blog post, she states:

"My mom would wake up at seven in the morning and head to school. When she comes back, she would be asked to do chores by her parents. Each of her siblings were assigned to do a different job. My mom had to take trips to the wells or to faucets to gather water for the family. For each bucket they got, they had to pay a cent. Back in the day, they had no access of water at homes. My mom took care of the water and took many trips back and forth from the well until she had eight buckets full of water. Water would be boiled up to take baths with, but most of the time they had to take cold water. When she comes comes back from school, she doesn’t have much time to do her homework. Most of the time, she just did whatever she was told to do...." - Shiyun

 Here, her mother is suffering because she stays home most of the time. She has rarely any freedom because she was being told what to do. She has to do chores around the home because her family members are working at jobs so she has to contribute to the family by doing so.

The connection reveals that we should appreciate what our parents are doing for us. In order to have a successful future. A person needs to be motivated into doing so and is willing to put in as much effort as possible.