I enjoyed reading the story In the Kitchen by Henry Louis Gates Jr.. It was about a family from Piedmont, West Virginia who mother was very original with the thing she did. They used their kitchen for many different purposes, hence the title. As explained in the text, the family kitchen was used so the mother can do her hair, to take showers because there was no shower in the house, and to bring in a little income because the mother also did hair occasionally. Henry was amazed at how much work his mom was capable of doing with her hair or anothers hair with such minimized items.
I admired this family because this was a prime example of a situation in which a family used all the sources they had available to them and made the most out of it. This story taught me to be grateful for what I have and not take nothing for granted because there are some people out there that are not even fortunate enough to be presented with an opportunity to be successful. To this day, stories like this taught me to never joke on a person because of what they lack but to like a person for what they posess.
