Cultural Influences
The picture that most people paint when they think about childhood is happy and fun. Most people would mention games like hide and seek, tag, and kickball. It sounds like the typical childhood a child would have right? But for Joy Obaseki this was not the picture perfect childhood that your everyday child would have experienced. During Joy’s childhood, she encountered numerous deaths of her loved ones. Joy lost her father, grandmother and her best friend’s mother. The deaths sadden Joy greatly but at the same time she feels that each loss has greatly influenced her in making her who she is. At the age of three, Joy lost her father due to a fatal car accident. Although Joy was very young at the time, she feels that the death affected her because she would see her mother mourning. Joy says, “ The death of my father was
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Knowing Joy, Joy Obaseki, , joy feels, chantais mother, joy grandmother, lost father, joy lost father, death father, father grandmother, phone call, grandmother friends, outlook life, loss grandmother,
Approximate Word count = 567
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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