The Life Of Childrens Life - 1323 Words

â€Å"Mom, I can’t believe you’re eating cookies! We’re going to eat dinner in half an hour!† my mother exclaimed as she walked into the kitchen to find my nana, her mother, snacking before dinner. This was a common scenario at my house. â€Å"Worse than a child,† my mother burst out into laughter, and then continued to stir the pot of pasta cooking on the stove top. My nana was an exceptionally healthy woman for her entire life. The only remotely unhealthy thing about her (if you want to even call it that), is that she lived for dessert. She was the biggest sweet tooth I know, and every day my mom would argue that she can’t eat chocolate cake, snickerdoodle cookies, or fudge brownie ice cream for dinner. Once, when I was about nine years old, we†¦show more content†¦A broken hip and CHF do not bode well together. Since her heart wasn’t strong enough to pump blood to and from her body, recovery from the fall was out of the question. This was the point that I realized that she was dying. Three months after she was diagnosed, my nana, who I loved dearly, was gone. It’s shocking to me how one moment everything can be fine, and suddenly, it isn’t. Two months after my nana passed, my childhood best friend, Francesca, passed away from leukemia at fifteen years old. That was hands down the hardest thing I have ever gone through. Francesca was diagnosed with stage three leukemia the year before and made it through all five rounds of chemotherapy with no problems. The doctors told her to that the medication would slow her down and make her sick, and that she should try not to stay in bed all day, if she felt alright to do so. She told me they were crazy. There was a huge blizzard during her fourth round of chemo. I remember Francesca texting me repeatedly saying how bad she wanted to go sledding. I picked her up, and we spent an hour crafting up sleds from anything we could find around her house: lids from garbage pails and plastic storage bins, a yoga mat, and even a boogie board. We went on a mission to find the largest hill around. C limbing up the hill was a clear struggle for her. We slid down the hill in our makeshift sleds, and when we got to the bottom,Show MoreRelated The Life of Billy Pilgrim in Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five or The Childrens Crusade2042 Words   |  9 PagesThe Life of Billy Pilgrim in Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five or The Childrens Crusade      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Marked by two world wars and the anxiety that accompanies humanitys knowledge of the ability to destroy itself, the Twentieth Century has produced literature that attempts to depict the plight of the modern man living in a modern waste land. If this sounds dismal and bleak, it is. And that is precisely why the dark humor of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. shines through our post-modern age. 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