'My Mother Never Worked\r'

'Chris Godkin D. Maggard English 1113, 323 19, family 2012 My come Never Worked In the legend â€Å"My bring forth Never Worked,” just Smith-Yackel re constitutes the time she contacted the kindly gage function well-nigh her fret’s death benefits. At that time, fair was put on constrain charm the genial Security histrion attempted through the files for the record of Martha Jerabek Smith. During the time she was waiting, Bonnie began to reminisce about the life of her deceased mother. As time goes by, the proletarian eventu totallyy returns to the phone.The leader explains to Bonnie that she is non able to come across the death benefits of her mother due to the incident she never had recordable job. During the duration of the phone call with the fond Security worker, Bonnie getmed kinda distraught in she was very sluggish to answer the questions of the worker. She took short pauses throughout her sentences to begin with completing them. She was a sked a few questions about her mother in relation to her name, age, Social Security number and if she was on Social Security. Bonnie told the worker that her mother was lxx eight and was on Social Security nevertheless she did not know the number.The worker past placed Smith-Yackel on hold while she searched for Martha Jerabek Smith’s record. Bonnie then used that time to search through her mind and recollect the remembrance of her mother. Her mother graduated high enlighten in 1913, as did her father the akin year. Martha loved Ben F. Smith, Bonnie’s father, but was afraid of marriage. The thought of planning her wedlock daytime, having children and just being a hook up with woman made her nervous and sick. As the geezerhood went by, she overcame her worries and married her love, Ben F. Smith, and began farming.In January, 1922 Martha gave birth to her start daughter. Her second child, a boy, was born in March 1923. During this time, they were renting farms and working on other people’s farms to nominate what little income they could. Martha learned to do a variety of tasks. Such as, tend to chickens and livestock, lay down and harvest crops, and can fruits and vegetables. In September 1925, and again in June 1927, Martha gave birth to her terce and fourth child- both daughters. In 1930, they reclaim a forty-acre field. Her mother worked the fields day after day.Harvesting and planting, tending to livestock, eitherthing that needed to be through, she was able to do. A year later, a drought hit and dried up the soil, starving and dehydrating the crops. Only half of the crops were harvested that year. In February 1934, their fifth child, a daughter, was born. During the winters, Martha sewed coats and jackets, and remade clothes so they would fit the growing children. In 1937 she gave birth to her fifth daughter. In 1939, she bared her second tidings. In 1941, her third son and eighth child were born.By then, she had thirty show of cattle which she milked daily. Shortly after, the Rural electrical energy Administration and indoor plumbing had arrived. In 1959 her youngest child graduated. though she was aging, Martha motionless worked either day out in the fields, making sure that everything was in instal. Ten years later Martha and Ben were heading into town for saccharide when they crashed into a ditch. Martha was severely injured and inactivate from the waist down. In 1970 Ben F. Smith passed away. Martha had done her best to regain self-control and order in life.It was over bearing for her to fall away her husband and have to deal with the excite of paralysis. She attended a rehabilitation prove where she learned to be independent and self-sufficing in a wheel chair. Though she was in a wheel chair, she still worked every day. She canned fruit and vegetables, sewed coats and even made a quilt. A voice quickly caught Bonnie’s attention. It was the Social Security worker, she had fo und the file. She verbalize that Bonnie’s mother had been receiving a widow’s pension. Bonnie then agreed with the worker.Then she stated that her mother is not entitled the Social Security service’s death benefit. Confused, Bonnie asked wherefore her mother was not entitled. The worker said, â€Å"Well, you see †your mother never worked. ” The way the story ends is superb. It makes one think back to all the work that Martha did on the farm and in the home. In the eyes of the knowing, we see that she had in fact been working herself to the bone on a farm for most her life. In the eyes of the government, or the blind much or less, Martha had no official work history. Therefore she was unable to receive any benefits.\r\n'