Responding to the poem "Heritage"

From my mother I have got love and good health. I have learned that working is good for everybody, and I have learned to take care of people.
She also taught me to cook, to make cakes and be fond of working in the garden. She taught me and my sister that education is important. When she was young, she was clever at school, but with ten children, she didn`t get an education. She has missed that.

From my father, the fisherman, I also learned to take care of people. He made me fond of fishing and seabirds. He liked to tell stories, and I liked to listen. Every day after work I lay down beside him, and he read to me from the newspaper. Now he is dead and I miss him.

I have only one sister, and from her I have learned that it is important to take care of the family and be together as much as we can.