ZEHRA K BOZAI CR 1

Zehra K Bozai
English 102
06-10-2009

EPISTOLARY ESSAY:
BONNIE DAWSON, 34 (STUDS TEKEL)

Bonnie Dawson, I really feel sorry for you and all those women who worked to feed their families without their husband’s help and without anyone else’s help. I have respect for all those women when even in hard times in their lives they didn’t give up and tried their very best to carry on their lives and survive. It reminds me of when I was going through the hardest time of my life. Even though everyone was against me and I had no moral support I survived and worked hard and now I have a nice life and everything is back to normal.
But you are not the only person who is suffering. There are eighty percent of women in this country who are going through the same situation. I know it’s hard to take care of your children alone. It is so painful to pay so many bills by yourself especially in a new city where you don’t have friends and
Family members and where everything is new to you and your family. It is also tough for you to work in an environment where there are no women, and where you have to work long hours and you don’t have a job according to your choice. You don’t have anybody at home to take care of your children when you are at work. You have to cook, wash dishes every night after dinner, and clean before going to sleep, and you can’t get enough sleep because the next day you have to wake up early in the morning.
Emotionally it is hard to accept the reality that having a lot of work pressure is not good for you, but you have to face the reality and keep working. At the same time, it is also hard psychologically for you to accept the reality that your parents are away from you and your elder son has moved back to Kentucky because he couldn’t adjust in Chicago. I can imagine how difficult it is for any mother to stay away from her children, especially in the situation that you are going through.
You also mentioned how after living in Chicago for two years, you couldn’t even get a chance to go to Downtown. It is sad, and I feel sorry for those women who their families but can’t even spend a dollar on them to buy something or can’t even go out with their friends on weekends to have a cup of coffee. Being a woman, I respect your feelings. Every women, rich or poor, once in a while goes out on the weekend for dinner or lunch with her friends. I think it is a big sacrifice that due to your tight schedule, you don’t get a chance to go on weekend.
I respect you as a women and the kind of sacrifices you are making to support you and your family these sacrifices will pay off in the future. When your children grow up, they will talk about how good their mother was. Right now I know what you are going through, as only those people who have gone through a rough time in their lives can understand. One day things will change for you, and you will begin to talk about your past that you worked hard in your life. I hope you keep pushing through, remembering the saying that “after every hard time, there is always a good time.”