Words From the Heart
"Is there a certain word that is used by a family member or by our family?" It was a question that I had asked my parents. They both had some crazy words from my childhood and from theirs, but one word in particular stuck with me, "yuck". This simple word was a what my parents used, to refer to my blanket. "Yuck" was used throughout my baby years and stopped during kindergarten years.
The word "yuck" is a real word, its definition meaning disgust. My parents called my blanket yuck, just like the blanket had a name. "Everyone used to say this word before." To me when they say everyone, all I picture is them saying it; because I doubt that a friend of my parents would be calling my blanket disgusting. They said that it was my security blanket, and that I would take it everywhere I went. The reason that my blanket was called yuck was because of how it smelt, according to my parents. But, seriously if something smells bad I don't know why my parents wouldn't just wash it more often.
In my family we have nicknames for a variety of things. From something being junk, to someone being annoying. My brother had a blanket too, but his supposedly was not as bad as mine. His blanket was called a "mish" which is a completely made up word, and as of right now my parents don't know how they came up with it. The only ties that I had with the word was that it was my blanket.
Until the day before I hadn't known what my blanket was referred to, except by blanket. I think that I had only found out yesterday because that was the only other day besides baby days that the word ever popped up. Seeing that it had stopped sometime during kindergarten it seems pretty easy to see how the word would just die off. But, I think the word stopped being used not only because of the fact that I had stopped using the blanket. Also because I started growing up and getting older. Im pretty sure that the word could make a comeback if something is gross again, but the odds are slim because we are all older now.
For as long as Im alive I'm going to probably remember "yuck" as a good and bad. Good that it was part of my childhood and it's memories. Bad because now when I see something gross, yuck will probably be one of the first words that pop into my mind, along with those imagined images of the YUCK.
AS(2) REMEMBER THE ESSAY NEEDS TO CONTAIN A STORY. THE STORY NEEDS TO BE A PERSONAL STORY WHEN THE WORD WAS USED. INSTEAD OF JUST TELLING US ABOUT IT, PROVE IT BY TELLING US THE TIME IT WAS ACTUALLY USED. EVEN IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER THE ACTUAL EXAMPLE ASK YOUR PARENTS THEN SHARE THAT WITH US. YOU NEED TO TELL US WHY EXACTLY IT WAS CALLED YUCK (I'M PRETTY SURE THEY WASHED IT). PLEASE AVOID STATING HOW YOU ACTUALLY ASKED THEM QUESTIONS ABOUT A SPECIAL WORD. THE ESSAY IS SUPPOSED TO BE A PERSONAL STORY WITH REFLECTION FROM YOU THROUGHOUT IT.
ReplyDeleteI thought that your concluding sentence was very strong but you could have changed your topic sentence to make it more of a hook instead of what you have now because I felt like it didn't really draw me in to reading more of your essay
ReplyDeleteI thought you had a strong last paragraph, because you wrote about how you felt about yuck, but the first one could have been improved. You should also add some personal memories and go more into detail about why it was named yuck.
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