Essay 12: Outline

Bell word: detached

Echo words: disassociated, divided, disunited, segregated, separated, disjoined

(TS) My friendship with mom is like the relationship between a mother kangaroo and a baby kangaroo.

(SD) Firstly, my mom and I were very close that we knew almost everything about each other when I lived in Korea.

(CM) I talked to her about my secrets, the information that I do not usually bring out in a conversation with my friends or my sisters, because I believed her and followed her more than anybody in the world.

(CM) Moreover, even though my mom did not talked to me about some of her difficulties, I always got aware of what was happening.

(SD) In addition, my mom and I were as intimate as a mother kangaroo and a baby kangaroo.

           (CM)As the mother kangaroo keeps her baby close in her pouch, my mom and I were friendly.

           (CM) Plus, as the mother kangaroo release her baby, my mom released me from her and sent me to the United States of America for a better education.

(SD)However, after I came to the United States, my friendship with mom became like the detached magnets that are blocked by a thin wall, trying to be united, but unable to be connected.

           (CM) For example, like the magnets are disassociated and cannot be attached, mom and I are disunited and cannot meet face-to-face.

           (CM) Furthermore, like the magnets attract and feel each other’s power through the thin wall, mom and I talk through the phone and share information about each other such as my grades.

(CS) Even though my friendship with my mom is still close like a mother kangaroo and a baby kangaroo, we are too far from each other to be the connected magnets.