essay

one of my three 'non-english major' classes. "Tayuan Instute of Technology". I asked my students to compose an essay describing what they know about the history of their families. This is from one of my students, spelling and grammar mistakes included.

 

My great grandmother was born of a poor family. She had to be as a servant for a landlord. She suffered alot. She doesn't have enough food to feed in, and doesn't have enough cloths to shelter from cold.

She was treated unfairly by her master.

 

Also my grandmothers didn't improve much. Her feet were also bandedwith great pain. She had given five childrens birth. Unfortunatly, three of them dided of hunger. This made my grandmother very sad. She cried and cried for three days. And what was worse her husband dided of illness. She became a widow for thirty years through hardship and difficulties.

 

My mothers life was a little better than them, since she was born just when the New China was born. My mother is not very tall, but she is very kind and beautiful. She treated us tenderly. Of course her life was not very satisfactory at all. She had to make a living through hard work. She went out on cold days for getting grass for pigs, carried coal from far away for heat; and she stayed up sewing for us. She contributed her life to her family.

 

I had difficulty in giving this and my other students any mark for these essays, they touched me in a way that I could never explain. All I said to the class was that, "they did very well......"

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