University of X ESL2 Essay: Exploring Family and Relationships

This essay, written for an ESL2 course, delves into the complexities of family relationships and adolescent experiences. The author reflects on their relationship with their younger sister, exploring themes of sibling rivalry, differing values, and the challenges of navigating familial expectations. The essay details a specific incident where the author confronts their sister about her choice of friends, highlighting the emotional turmoil and feelings of frustration that arise from these interactions. The author's personal reflections reveal their concerns about their sister's behavior, the impact of religious differences, and the longing for a closer, more understanding relationship. The essay also touches upon the author's own emotional responses, including feelings of sadness and resorting to alcohol, underscoring the depth of the issues at hand. Overall, the essay provides a descriptive account of a complex family dynamic and the emotional challenges associated with it.

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At the age of 14 years, questions were still ringing in my head, why does my family treat
me this way, why have they invested all their efforts to my younger sibling Leila, why do they
get involved in religious activities so much, why does my younger sister hang out with very
nuisance girls who have habits similar to sluts behaviors. I had no one to answer this and this
always left me in a bad mood that I could not explain. I can recall at the age of 14 years when
something bad happened to me. My sister Leila was having a birthday this day and it was going
to be a good day for us all.
As a family, every family member had an obligation of buying her some gifts as a way of
coloring her birthday and makes it lively. Dad and mom, being our lovely parents offered to buy
Leila everything that she wanted. Being her elder brother I was getting bored with our family
since I only got a PlayStation bit my sister got what she wanted. I chose to take her to out to the
park since I had no better present for her. During our walk, I was holding my younger sisters
hand as I was making fun of her of how she can benefit by avoiding her friend's company since
they had bad morals. Since my sister and family were so much religious, I chose to trick her if
she abandoned the fake friends, just like our parents told us according to the families religion,
God would provide everything for her. although I was hard on her, the fact that I told her of the
fact that God would provide everything for her, made her happy and she ended up yelling up that
it only me she wanted.
I was very sad when I noticed that she tricked me and went to hang around with her
friends during her birthday. I took the initiative and questioned her why she was hanging with
those friends. She was responding calmly but straight into my eyes. She did not want me to
separate her with her friends but I chose to do it forcefully and I made sure that they were not
going to see her again. She claimed that they were belonging to the same religious group but was
against this since I was not religious like my family and thus saw prayers helpless in this
situation.
My sister’s behavior triggered lots of concern to me and during my personal time I could
figure out why my sister was messing up. I thought of the beauty my sister could be having if she
was obedient to me and stop hanging around with slut. I was wondering why she was not getting
more clever as she grew up was getting upset by the company she was in. I felt so bad since she
was too sensitive but she did not expose this trait when making choices when it comes to
friendship.
The way my sister Leila looked at me straight into my eyes after questioning of her trick
with her friends so that they can spend for her birthday outside the family compound, made me
feel that she had some sort of hatred and for sure this feeling made me feel so depressed to a
point of taking alcohol to ease the issue .my main concern to my sister was why she was just
making friends with everyone easily.