About Me

  Jeffrey Hudson

English 202

01/20/08

Jeffrey Hudson                                                                                                                                                      

01/20/08

                                                                              “Growth”

      As a child I watched the older kids and how they always flashed and bragged about all there belongings. I have seen cars that could dust a police car by a mile, Diamonds the size of glaciers and stacks of money so big it you were smacked with it you would go into a coma.  This was my environment and I was far from a product of it, I was a pudgy little bald head kid with skin like peanut butter and cheeks that sat over my lips like an Aussie bulldog. The ring leader of this group of delinquents and to me he was god and no one could tell me he could do any wrong.  My brother one of the most ruthless individuals I have ever me in my life. He had hands the size of a catcher’s mitt and had no problem using them.

      I was always the one that was to be the ruler of my brothers legacy because of how much we acted a like even though I was the “FAT” kid in the neighborhood  I was very strong for my age and I always fought kids twice my age. I was a good student in school; I just wanted to be a bad boy so bad I always just cursed at all the facility members. When I was about 13 my brother was arrested for home invasion and sentenced to 4 years in jail. At this time I was in my first years of high school and in the same path way my brother took. I was always fighting, cursing and skipping class. This was the thing to but to me it was already inscribed in my brain that this was in my blood. One day I was walking home and saw a red car fall so fast down the street it was almost if satin he was running the forty yard dash down street. Just then   my cousin was thrown out of it with his face looking as though the skin was torn from it an almost resembled a pizza. This was my wake up call; this was when I saw the actions of the damned will damn others.

      Its been five years since the death of my cousin and I was a new person I was about to graduate high school I had a girl friend who was the love of my life and I was doing so good in school I racked up $25,000 in scholarship money.  This was the day my brother was coming home and I was so excited because this would be the first time I’ve seen my brother in five years. I wanted to show him how big I have gotten, and how much I have grown as man. I also had the question of if what happened to my cousin his fault. Just then the door swung open I ran to the top of the steps and there stood the “beast”. My brothers real name was Kareem, but in these five years has turned into a beast I mean this guy was huge.

      I was on my way to greatness I was happy I felt safe again and I thought the world was mine and everything in it, to bad everything I said was dead wrong in the 4 months my brother was home he was fired from 6 jobs and decided he would just be the man that he used to be an down right criminal. I knew this was wrong but I was with him 100% because he was my idol and well…. He could do no harm right? One night when I got off work my bother was sloping on the corner of my block high off Xanax pills and colt 45 malt liquor. He told me hell be in so I want to sleep hoping that the drugs would not alter id mode tonight. At about 5:15am that morning I was awoken by the beam of an M-16 assault rightful in the middle of my head giving me the appearance of a Hindu Indian. As I was pulled out of my bed I notice my bother getting pushed out the front I was so mad I because I knew he had done something stupid that put us all in danger. I we sat out side I noticed my mother give my brother a look that would have made the pope has a heart attack. We were told that my brother had stolen a taxi and robbed, beat and extorted the driver.

Growth is defined refers to an increase in some quantity over time, the quantity can be physical or abstract a system becoming more complex, an organism becoming more mature. (www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth This page was last modified 00:56, 13 January 2008).I look at these details as a bunch of false information that was useless .because where I’m from growth is hereditary and it’s not about whom you want to be it’s about who you’re going to be. It’s a shame it took a wake up call from the Philadelphia Police force busting in my house five o’clock in the morning to realize that. These things made me the man I am today I chose to follow the opposite role of my brother I now live my two things “A man who wont die for something is not fit to live”. (Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (www.thinkexist.com/English/Author/x/Author_1793_1.htm) and the famous quote “You’re not to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it”. (Malcolm X, (www.famousquotes.me.uk/x_malcolm/.) These are the tools that I needed to come this far in life but I know that the adventure to my growth is not over.

The type of essay I wrote a narrative/ cause and effect essay because it told a story but also gave my readers a look at how this situation changed me in the long run. The audience that I am writing are any youth or young adults between the ages of 13-30 this essay is meant to show indivuadles that you can accomplish you life’s dream if you fight for it .If I wrote this essay over I would change the grammar because its told more from a raw point of view so that the reader gets the feel for the story. And the other thing I would change is the structure I wanted to provide more detail but the story is to short.