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Personal Narrative: I Want A Baby
I Want a Baby I belong to the classification of people know as educators. I am a teacher and unfortunately, I am not a mother. Yet. Just recently my younger sister of 28 years, just gave birth to her third child. The most beautiful seven point fifty-two pound little baby girl. With hair brown like melted chocolate and eyes the color of honey, dressed up in a pink mommy’s little girl onesie. I see her kids every day and I see other parent’s kids every day too, but why don’t I have any of my own. I thought about that as I sat there rocking little Evelyn in my arms and it suddenly occurred to me that I, too, would like to be a mother. Not just an educator or an aunt, but a mother with a baby of her own. Why do I want a Baby?
I would like to stop
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She wrote an essay on her thoughts of men to hopefully make a change in another woman’s life and I wrote my thoughts about a baby in the role of a teacher and how it changed her. Brady’s long list mentions, “I want a wife who will take care of my physical needs. I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after me,” all showing how selfish and traditional thinking men are, opening the eyes of all wives and in the end helping them (Brady, 58). I took that same long list feature and imitated it by using, “I want a baby who will depend on me and I on them. I want a baby that will be waiting for me at home. A baby that will be waiting for love,” which all changes how the teacher felt about babies and how at the end she realizes how much she wants a baby. I also mimicked her ironic and goal orientated tone she used in “I Want a Wife” to help make my “I Want a Baby” parody essay. In Brady’s essay she was really ironic in the way she claimed to be a wife yet wrote about how she wanted a wife. Not only that, but also wrote on how good wives are and at the same time was protesting it. I also incorporated that into my essay by adding how the teacher already had “too many kids” but still wanted one of her own. I also shared the same goal-oriented style Brady used to get what she wanted. Brady used hers to focus on spreading her feminist views and I used mine to get a teachers baby fever thoughts

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