Prompt: Describe a meaningful family tradition unique to your culture and explain how it mirrors or contrasts with the cultural identity themes of expectations and roles in "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid.

 Prompt Response: Whenever my grandparents visit they always bring scratch offs for the lottery. They have been doing this longer than I can remember. The logical reason why they did this was it was cheap, and provided a great deal of entertainment to children in the hopes of winning thousands. Now I am 18 years old and they still do it. What the tradition represents now is you are never above a little fun even if very unprofitable. Scratch offs are a simple way just to appreciate the little things off finding a quarter around the house in the hopes of maybe winning 20 bucks since my expectations are more realistic now. 

Summary: In class we finished up the four discussion questions for "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid. Along with took our pictures for our school ID's. 

Reflection: I learned that I do not have many "family traditions" and those I do have are so mundane I had to think for a good while to come up with. I suppose the meaningful stuff can often be forgettable or so normal you don't think of it. 

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