Gloria Watkin Keeping Close To Home

In Gloria Watkin’s essay “Keeping Close to Home,” she reflects on her childhood and certain events that helped her to form her values. She recalls how her parents were one of the conflicting sources for shaping her values. For example, her parents give her books to her and supported her to be educated, but at the same time threaten to burn the books if she didn’t conform to their expectations of her. These reflecting events in her life made her more open-minded, respectful and value other people’s (different views on education) with different perspectives than education. She also learned from her father, who was a janitor, to value responsibility, thoughtful creativity, and hard work in her career as a writer. Finally, she recalls the events

Therefore, how So the way each person raised up affects who she/he becomes and what he/she values. While Watkin’s described that as a child she didn’t interact with lots of people grew up in a small town in Kentucky and never been on a city bus, she was frightened to leave her home to attend college. I think that society and environment that we are raised in as children can have a major impact on our life as we become adults. If the child was raised in a loving and caring home mostly he/she will inherit that behavior and vice versa. For example, Christina who used to as a young girl used to see her family once a week, talking together and discussing the things that they gained during the week and talking about valuable life lessons such as sharing or helping others people who might need our help and narrating family past to her as a child. And in the weekend, her family would devote time to go to church and volunteer. She would gain positive behaviors such as being compassion, kind, and gentle. Also gain a stronger relationship with her parents and friends. Then as she grows up she is able to build stronger relationships and value family