Sacrifice

             The word sacrifice means that something is given up in order to benefit another person. Sacrifices can be placed into categories based upon what is being given up in order to benefit someone else. In the following paragraphs, I will give explanations about the sacrifices that people have made such as food, time, comfort, and roles of being a parent.
             The first sacrifice I will talk about is food in Andre Dubus' story "The Fat Girl." Louise sacrificed her love of food to benefit her mother. When Louise and her mother ate together it never seemed to be enough to fill up on, so when she knew her mother was not paying any mind to her she would push food up her blouse until she got some place safe enough to consume it. A different example of giving up food would be while Louise was in high school; she sacrificed her food by not eating a large amount. In fact, she overheard her friend saying, "She never eats"(109). During her college years, she had a roommate who helped her gain some will power. Although Louise lost weight, she said that "she felt that she had lost more than just fat; that sometime during her dieting she lost herself too" (113). By Louise feeling this way, she had sacrificed time that she could have been content with herself. At last, she found love, got married, and was expecting a child. During her pregnancy, she started her old eating habits. In fact, "She was gaining weight, but had told herself it was only the baby and would leave with its birth" (116).
             An example of giving up your childhood is in Adam Schwartz's short story "Where Is It Written?" In that story, Sam sacrificed his childhood by cleaning, cooking, washing clothes, and ironing for his mother. His mother was a single parent and a psychiatrist. Sam wanted to live with his father and as he said, "have a normal life" (98). Another example of sacrificing childhood, Is that Sam's mother would call him out...

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