Seedfolks Essay

He showed me that chivalry can be used in everyday activities, that it isn’t just found in courage and honor. It is also in keeping a door open for a woman. It is imbedded in paying for a woman’s check, helping your infant grandson up a flight of stairs, it is in the basic things we do that make us civilized human. I do believe that what he taught me on this matter made me into more of a gentleman, too. He was my role model who showed me how to treat others, and how to be a good man. I would never be where I was now without the almost fatherly affection he showed. He was always right next to me during our fishing trips to teach me something new. Along with this, he showed me my first real view of humor. Not of some obscure and strange youtube video that everybody laughs at because it has profanity and informal topics, I mean honest humor. Something that is rare today. He was also my best male role model, as I have no father in my household, and I would rather learn from a gentleman than my brother. I learned so much from him, and I only wish I could have known him for a longer period of time. But the most important life lesson he taught me was grit. He showed me the little part of every person that makes them say no to giving up, that makes them go through with a challenge even when it seems hopeless. He showed me that in any fight, you can never give up. He always told me to work my

In the book Seedfolks there was a garden that brought a whole community together. This community was a very segregated. There were so many different cultures. In the garden the different cultures were segregated. The garden brought together people who were young, old, pregnant teens, as well as people with other backgrounds. The garden helped so many people. In Seedfolks, overcoming obstacles was a big part of the characters lives. Sae Young, Curtis, Wendell, Leona, and Maricela all had tragedies in their lives that became greatness.

All the father love their sons or daughters. Although they have done something bad affecting themselves and making their father unhappy, he is still sadly calm down and teach them which is good or bad about human being, their life, or their future. A father can be the one as a mother when the mother is sick or already dead, which means he has

Seedfolks is a story about people living in Cleveland and they live in a community that is not diverse at all.  The characters are all different races, so it is hard for them to go out in the world without thinking they are being judged or bullied by other people.  In the story, we see the characters building up to create a community garden.  This story is about how one act of kindness can generate another.  But that’s not the only theme to the story.  There are tons more morals and themes.  Such as the garden.  The garden helps bring people together and makes the dirty neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio more diverse.  The characters in the book all have something in common, they all deal with family issues and their races and cultures make them feel like they don’t belong.  But when the community garden is created, everything starts to change.  People become more open about their feelings, they have a lot of friends, and everyone we read about connects back to one another.  The characters in Seedfolks are different from one another.  They are all different races which makes them really self- conscious about how they look when they go out in public.  They do not easily meet new people due to their cultural differences and isolation in a large city.  But when they convert the vacant lot into the community garden, this provides them with the chance to break out and meet new people.  The book shows that this is an important thing because the more diverse and close a neighborhood

Hello, how are you doing? I hope you are doing well. I am wondering if you are still writing since I am waiting for a new book from you. The reason why I am writing this letter is that I just finished reading your book Seedfolks, and I am would like to share my impressions about it.

Every Father plays a symbolic role in another child’s life, he can always be there for you and provide you with what you need and sometimes what you want. A father can be there for you to teach you the rights and the wrongs in life, even though sometimes you don’t want to believe he’s right. A father can teach you how to become a man and teach you to become an athlete if you choose to be one, he will teach you self-discipline and do everything in his power to make sure you will be successful in what you want to do. Some people, unfortunately do not have a father who can do all of these things for whatever the reason may be. Luckily I was blessed with a father who could do all these things and end up becoming my biggest influence in life and the game of baseball.

The estranged relationships between father and son tend to start from lack of communication. Fathers express their love through actions rather than words. When conflicts occur, they are unlikely to explain themselves, which leads to greater complications. In addition, fathers are often absent in the child’s youth for reasons such as work. However, absent fathers can have great influence on the child.

In the novel Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman, the character Sam talks about his dedication to fixing the problems in his neighborhood. In his chapter, he says “ you've seen fishermen mending the rips in their nets. That's what I do, only with people. Seeing the issues in the community garden, he comes up with the idea for the water contest to get people in his neighborhood to work on a common problem together,which help unify them. In the real world, there are other such individuals and organizations that are striving to “mend the rips” in their neighborhoods, communities, and the united states as a whole. One of these individuals is Malala Yousafzai. Malala is a girl who defied the taliban, fought for girls education, she was shot in

Since the time of Adam and Eve, parents have played a major role in upbringing children and reproducing more generations. In most societies, the father has been the backbone of the family and played a major role in providing support and stability to the family. Yet, the role of the father differs from a family to another. While some fathers focus only on feeding and educating their children, others focus on every aspect of their children’s lives. The father’s leadership often drives the children to have a close relationship with the father. Sons often see the father as their role model and build a father-son relationship. Yet, the father-son relationship can be either weak or strong depends on the father’s concept of parenthood. The

My father is just like my grandfather in almost every aspect of their lives. In my opinion, I think that my father got most of his qualities from my grandfather. My grandfather is loving and caring with his whole family and you will always see him involved in family actives. He is just as hardworking as my father and taught my father how nothing is ever free and you have to work for everything in life. That is exactly the same thing that my father has taught me as I was growing up. My grandfather came from a small and poor place in Cuba called, Pinar Del Rio. However, with a lot of hard work and sacrifice he was able to move and relocate most of his family down to Havana, Cuba or somewhere near there. After moving down to a city he knew nothing about, my grandfather had to start from scratch and make a way of life. Just like my father, my grandfather never said no to anyone and would always find a way to help everyone out. My grandfather and my father both have many of the same qualities and looking at them side by side everyone can agree how similar they are to each other. Like my father, everyone in my family can agree that my grandfather is a great person and loved by his whole family. In addition, his kids and grandkids love him so much to the point that they paid for him to get an open visa to be able to fly from Cuba to the United States as many times as he wants because of

Hello, how are you doing? I hope you are doing well. I am wondering if you are still writing since I am waiting for a new book from you, and I hope it will appear soon. The reason why I am writing this letter is that I just finished reading one of your books Seedfolks. Since there are a lot of interesting character’s stories and a lot of significant themes, I decided to share my impressions about them.

Although we are in different fields, I feel like I have already started to emulate my father by learning from how he got to where he is now. My father had a child (me), got married, then completed his education and now has a great job and a business that is different from his field. I started a sandal wood plantation when I was 14 as a hobby that my father got me in to. Now the trees are over 10 years old, and I have plans for lotions and harvesting in the future. I am now close to completing my bachelor’s degree and I have a job lined up for me after graduation at a company I have dreamed of working at for so long and I am engaged. I feel like I am emulating my dad by how I have planned out each step in my

We, his children, were blessed to have a father who taught us by example the values of integrity, pride in one’s work, compassion, a strong faith and respect for clergy and religious.

To me, fathers were people who left you, hurt you, and were completely unreliable. So I prayed vastly, timidly, even cautiously, to the universe with the real hope in my heart that whatever was true would find me. I passionately wanted to know God and pursued Him with all my might. I begged Him to answer me with the truth of where my best friend was. I needed to confirm my suspicions that there was something out there that mattered more than living, dying, and turning into dust. His response took me much further than my quest on the afterlife, resonated through my whole soul, and changed me in a way that I still struggle to put into words: “I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” - John 3:16 With that verse, Jesus answered me with love, compassion and a healing touch. I felt true happiness and began to value myself for the first time. Perhaps most importantly for the purposes of my time at Colorado Christian University, He blessed me with an enormous appetite for His Word. This helped me understand and establish my academic and educational goals based on His plan for my

My father really is the person who taught me to view myself in a positive way. During the rough periods my family experienced, I did not feel worthy of love. I felt lost and confused due to what my family had experienced. My father really challenged these views I had of myself and helped me see I am worthy. He also taught me the value of hard work and persistence even when life is challenging. I would be nothing without my