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Personal Narrative: My Antebellum House

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In 1862 my Antebellum house was built and in 2001 is when we moved in we had a pact that no matter what we do not move out of this house. Let me tell you about my parents my mom is appease kind of person and my dad is a bellicose kind of person. And me and my two brothers act just like them. I had three brothers that lived at our house but my father stopped his rebellion by insisting on kicking him out. After that my mother had to pacify him after she did that I can hear that the belligerence in his voice again so I knew he would be alright. But one thing about me that my dad don’t like is that I am a pacifist person. And I’m not that guy I’m not a bellicose kind of guy my dad is I don’t know why he want me to be like that but he need to
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