"... and make sure you make yourself useful," my mom said as she drops me off at my friend's house. My mom always wants me and my sister to be helpful whenever we are someone's guests. She said that she does not want us to just sit around and let everyone do the work. Being useful is important to her because she does not want people to think that our family is rude or lazy. "Make yourself useful" is something her mom (my grandma) told her when she was growing up. Now both my mom and my grandma tell me to make myself useful wherever I go.
Whether it is at my friend's house, a family get together, a party, or just at home, I am always being told to make myself useful. I help do the dishes, put away the food, clean up what I took out, or help bring things out to the car. Although there are days when I feel too tired to help or I do not want to because everyone else is having more fun, I still help out with whatever needs to be done because I know that it is the right thing to do and it will make my mom and grandma proud.
Sometimes hearing the same thing all the time can be a pain. I've heard it so much and now I say, "Yeah okay," whenever my mom tells me to make myself useful. Having been told to make myself useful so many times made being useful something I always do when I go somewhere. Wherever I go, I help with what needs to be done.
I know that being part of my family means that what I do will reflect on the people who raised me. If I do something good, it will make my parents, aunties, uncles, and grandparents look good too. But if I do something terrible, it will make them look terrible too. Making myself useful if something that shows that my family raised me to be good and helpful and not rude and lazy.
Being useful and helping out can mean a lot to someone and they will appreciate what we did for them. The way I think of it is I put myself in the other person's shoes. If I had a lot of things to do, I would appreciate it if someone would help me. So whenever I am at someone's house and I see that they are trying to get things done, I go over and ask them if they need help.
I like the way you started off your essay. It made it very clear what your essay was going to be about. You only had a few errors, like in the sentence ".. or help being things out of the car". That was the only thing I would fix. Other than that, your essay was good!
ReplyDeleteAS(2+) THERE NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSION ON HOW THIS MIGHT SEEM LIKE AN ORDINARY PHRASE BUT TO YOUR FAMILY IT IS SPECIAL. AND IF YOU CHOSE THIS PHRASE YOU NEED TO ADD MORE REFLECTION ON WHY IT IS UNIQUE TO YOUR FAMILY. ADD MORE EMOTION, WHY IT MATTERS SO MUCH TO YOU THAT YOU CHOSE IT. LESS EXPLANATION OF WHAT IT MEANS AND MORE EXPLANATION ON HOW YOU FEEL ABOUT IT.
ReplyDeleteStarting off your essay with a quote is a really good idea. It tells us that you are talking about your family and it tells us what the story will be about. work on your explanation like when u say u make your self useful what do you do to make your self useful and how does it help people.
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