The Breadwinner - Chapter 7
- Ms Tomczak
- May 31, 2022
- 1 min read
Parvana is forced to fill her fathers shoes to help support her family. How would you feel if you were suddenly forced to do one of your parent’s jobs? Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to step into someone else's shoes? How would/did you cope? Explain.
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I was forced to fill in for my parent's job. I would feel very overwhelmed, stressed, and scared because my dad has as a cook at a restaurant. All I could make buttered toast, so I do not have too much knowledge of cooking. I am afraid that I would mess up on something and hurt myself trying to make food. Not just that my dad works in extreme temperatures while in the kitchen, and with the current weather outside right now I would be sweating, so could not I imagine working in that kitchen.
If I was forced to do one of my parents' jobs, I think I would find it difficult and confusing at first but eventually, I would get better at it. I also think it would be very tiring doing a full-time job for the first time at 11 years old. Jobs around the house are also hard, but I think they would be a little easier for me because I already do some stuff like that. I had to step into my parents' shoes when they went on vacation once. I had to do things like making sure my brother's bag was packed and getting ready for a dance competition mostly on my own. It would be tough doing someone…
If I were forced to do one of my parents jobs I would feel confused and confused because I have no idea how to do my mom's job .
I would feel very confused because I do not have the age to have my parent's job and even maybe they might have a job that I do not know how to do. Yes once I was at my house and it was my brother who left all his clothes on the floor and I had to pick all of them up because my brother would not to them. To add on to the question of having to do my parent's job what if I do not know how to do them and can get them fired and then lose all our money and become poor because I do not how to do their job. So that is what I…
If I was forced in my dad's shoes I wouldn't be able to cope because my dad goes to 2-3 meetings a day, get up at 5 am in the morning, write 5 paragraphs, make my mom and me dinner when my moms late. If I was my mom I definitely couldn't cope because my mom is a vet and works with sick, dying, crying animals and I can handle that.