A great quote that shows how Griffin acknowledges her frustration and fear is, “The feeling that I had let everything go out of control. I could only turn one direction, inward. Each day I abated my fea

I see in myself the mistakes I have made, and I see myself within my actions as a person who has done good but also bad. As Griffin speaks of self-respect, I can relate to her. She wants the reader to look inside, see their anger, and look at the reasons they feel the way they do. As she ends her essay talking about her grandfather, its like she wants the reader to be able to evaluate themselves, and accept, respect, and be comfortable with who they are.

The memory is immediate. I’m a child almost nine years old. I sit on a cold pavement of a winter day in Los Angeles. My grandmother has angered me. There is a terrible injustice. A punishment that has enraged me. As I sit picking blades of grass and arranging them into piles, I am torturing her in my mind. I have tied her up and I am shouting at her. Threatening her. Striking her. I batter her, batter as if each blow, each landing of my hand against her flesh, I can force my way into her, I can be inside her, I can grab hold of someone inside like me, someone who feels, someone who feels as I do, who feels the hurt I feel, the wound I feel, who feels pain as I feel pain. I am forcing her to feel what I feel

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