Question

We are each shaped by the people who gave us life. Everything we are and all that we do can be traced back, in one way or

another, to early influences: parents, family, a home or the lack of a home. In my case, four figures from my childhood helped
to make me who I am, each giving me a gift that is unique: my father, my mother, my grandmother, and my grandfather. To
understand me, you have to know them.
The excerpt above is from page 35 of Nothing's Impossible: Leadership Lessons from inside and outside the Classroom by
Lorraine Monroe. Paraphrase, summarize, and quote the passage above. Be sure to include in-text citations using the MLA
style.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

What the author wants to convey through this paragraph is that, according to her life experience, people's personality and behaviour are influenced by the personality of those members of our family who are directly related to our origins, such as our parents or grandparents. Each one of them have given us something that is characteristic and unique from them, and as though we don't imitate their behaviour or personality, we learn to apply those characteristics according to our own personality.

Monroe, Lorraine. Nothing's impossible: Leadership Lessons from inside and outside the classroom. Harlem. Frederick Douglass Academy. 1999