Learning about Culture through personal narrative writing

It may seem like an empty stomach is the worst thing about being poor, but for Junior it’s not being able to save his best friend.

Linda Schubert recounts the fear that consumed her Jewish family living in Nazi-Germany in the late 1930s. Each family member endured individual stress and anxiety, but each also contributed to the family's greater good of the family.

Rosie Molinary describes how she felt as a Latina teenager in the United States, caught between disparate and unrealistic beauty standards.

“And I asked him everything that I ever wanted to ask. I asked him to tell me the real story.”

“They called it slums but it was never a slum to me.”

“She said, 'You know, there was a time we couldn't wear no fingernail polish...'”

“By the time I was in the second grade, everyone was calling me Raymond.”