Creative Writing

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Creative Writing
My name is Emma Schwarz, and I have two brothers and two sisters, my mother is 42 years old while my father is 52 years old. I believe that my biography is plausible because it relates to the things that people go through in life and therefore it gives hope for a better future to all those that read it. My town of residence has always been Passau as this was my parent’s birth place and so they never moved to any other town even after my siblings and I were born. My town was affected by the trends in Hagen because of the proximity between the two places and the movement of people between the two regions. The most significant trend that had a huge impact on my town was the agrarian revolution which brought about the rise and development of agriculture. This revolution begun in Hagen and later on spread to other small towns including my town and was widely embraced by many because it was an assurance of constant food supply (Hagen, pp. 698)
My family’s profession was that of art (though my father worked as a physician) whereby we made different items using locally available materials which we would later sell to earn some income, therefore, we were considered a working-class family by the society. This idea helped us view life more positively and place value on what we had as a family. Both my parents were orphans as my grandparents had passed on due to an epidemic that struck our town many years back and since my mother and father were firstborns, it means they had no siblings.

This shows that being an orphan does not diminish your chance of having a successful life.
World War 1 begun when I was a child and progressed until my teen years. During this time, I was full of fear and did not go out often. I rarely spoke to anyone because the fear had made me an introvert. My family was facing financial hardships because our art business had closed down ever since the war begun. Food had also become scarce, but our unity as a family grew during this period because we were aware that life wasn’t always guaranteed.
In 1933 I had grown to become a beautiful young woman with dreams and ambitions. I had progressed in my education to reach college level where I was constantly topping my class and was also elected as the secretary of the student’s council. During the mid-1920s I got married to a young man I met in the student’s council who happened to be the head of the finance department. Two years after our marriage we had two children.
Third Reich policies helped my family escape the trap of poverty and saw us rise to become a respectable family that was able to assist others in the society. This happened because all my family members were educated and therefore the policies worked to benefit us.
Work Cited
Hagen, Joshua. “Historic preservation in Nazi Germany: place, memory, and nationalism.” Journal of Historical Geography 35.4 (2009): 690-715.