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My Favourite Possession

A model answer for IELTS speaking test – Part 2.

by Soolmaz Neishaboori | Aug 9, 2019 | Speaking

The topic is ‘Describe your favourite possession.’

My Favorite Possession

by IELTS Juice

In part 2 of the speaking test, you have one minute to prepare and 1-2 minutes to talk using a cue card the examiner gives you. In this 2-minute podcast an IELTS Juice expert describes her favourite possession (i.e. something that belongs to her).

Speaking Part 2

Describe your favourite possession.

You should say: What this is When you obtained it What you like about it And explain why this item is important to you.

Model Answer

My favourite possession and the most valuable thing I’ve ever had was a 90-square-meter apartment that I won in a lottery when I was 25 years old. I remember living in a very small house with my in-laws and I used to work full-time at an oil company at the time… plus, I had a 2-year-old daughter who needed to be looked after 24/7… that’s why my husband and I decided to move to the city where his family lived so that they could take care of her.

The first two years, we lived together in an old house with 8 other people …. I still remember vividly how I used to feel. One day I heard about a house sweepstakes in our company. So I registered for it pessimistically because I could never have imagined that I’d ever win. It took 2 years for the building of these apartments to finish…and…since there were 40 people taking part in the lottery and only three apartments, we only had a slight chance of winning.

Finally …. I heard the best news in my life. Looking back, I couldn’t have been happier! …I know…it wasn’t a big deal! It was only a small apartment but…to be honest… it was like a palace for me… This place was important to me because it was my very first apartment and I still reminisce about every single moment of it.

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Describe your Favourite Possession

Posted by David S. Wills | Jan 17, 2022 | IELTS Tips , Speaking | 0

In part two of the IELTS speaking test, you could be asked to describe almost anything – a person , a place , a memory , a part of history , a website , and so on. Of course, you could also be asked to describe an object, and that is what we will look at today.

In this lesson, I will show you how to describe your favourite possession or describe something you own that is important to you .

Cue Card: Describe your favourite possession

As there are countless possibilities in terms of cue cards, it is not worth memorising them and trying to create answers that you could produce in the exam. Instead, you should be familiar with the style and topics that often arise and be ready to answer whatever cue card you are given.

With the idea of a favourite possession, there are various ways the cue card could appear. If could say:

Describe your favourite possession.
Describe a possession that is important to you.

It might not even use the word “possession” and instead use something more generic, like “thing” or “object.” In fact, according to the sample questions on the official IELTS website , the phrase “something you own” has been used:

Describe something you own which is very important to you. You should say: – where you got it from – how long you have had it – what you use it for; and explain why it is important to you.

This might seem a little confusing, but remember that “thing you own” and “possession” have the same meaning, so the topic is basically the same.

Special note: Most cue cards that you see online are not real and the people who run those websites do not understand IELTS. For example, this is from a terrible website called IELTSband7. It posts rubbish cue cards that will mislead you, alongside really bad sample answers.

Note that a real cue card does not have questions! This shows how terrible these “teachers” are and why you should ignore them. There’s a review of good and bad IELTS websites here .

Analysing the Cue Card and Planning an Answer

When you get the cue card, you have just one minute to plan an answer, so don’t waste any time. Read what you are meant to do and pick the first thing that comes to mind. In this case, you need to pick an object about which the following is true:

It is important to you

Think of something quickly. For me, it would be a camera that I got many years ago. Is this the best thing to talk about? Probably not, but it is the first thing that jumps into my mind, so I would not waste time thinking of anything else.

Pay attention to the bullet points, but don’t worry too much about covering all of them. You can use these as guidelines. Watch out for those question words:

These should guide you but remember that you are not answering questions. They just introduce ideas that you should talk about.

You also do not need to talk about these things in order. For example, you might find that it is easier to begin with “how long” you have had the thing because this would naturally allow you to say “Seven years ago, I bought this…” Don’t worry about the order of ideas as long as they are natural and logical.

You can see my ideas on structuring part two speaking answers here:

Vocabulary About Favourite Possessions

In terms of vocabulary that you need to know for this sort of cue card, it totally depends on what you choose to talk about. As I am discussing cameras, I would need to know photography vocabulary , but if you chose a smartphone then you would need technology vocabulary .

However, there are some words that would help you answer those parts of the cue card that guide the content of your answer:

where you got it from	bought, found, given, received, inherited, saved up for, came across, looked for
how long you have had it	had, owned, been in possession of, for X years, since I was X years old, since before I can remember
what you use it for	helps me to, allows me to, assists me in, relax, work, gives me an advantage, cheers me up
explain why it is important to you	means the world to me, reminds me of (someone), wouldn’t trade it for anything, would be lost without it

Here’s a very short example that answers all parts of the question and uses some of the vocabulary above. Note that it is not a full answer because it does not last for more than one minute:

I saved up for this computer for six months and then eventually bought it. I suppose now I’ve had it for three years and honestly I would be lost without it . It helps me to do so many important things, particularly in terms of work .

Now, let’s see my proper sample answer, about the camera that I mentioned previously.

Sample Band 9 Answer

About seven years ago, I went home to visit my parents for the first time in a few years. My mum told me that it had been so long since I had been home for my birthday that she wanted to buy me a present and so I told her that I had been thinking about buying a camera. Before then, I had owned a few digital cameras that weren’t very good, but I had started to enjoy the process of taking photos and was looking to get into it as a hobby.

We went to a nearby city and found a technology shop and looked through the cameras they had on offer. One of them had a really long optical zoom, which I felt would be a huge advantage, and so I picked that one. In the months and years that followed, I took my camera on safari around parts of Africa and Asia, shooting hundreds of animals. Photography became my favourite pastime and that camera became my favourite possession.

I still have the camera, even though it more or less stopped working a few years ago. I keep trying to fix it and sometimes it does work, but it is a little unreliable now and I have a much more expensive camera that I use for most shots. I cannot bring myself to throw the old one away because it was a present from my mum and it has accompanied me on so many important trips. I think that even when it can no longer take another photo, I’ll put it on a shelf alongside some framed photos as a reminder of where they came from.

Notes on the Answer

You may notice that I have re-used a familiar structure, which is to start with a personal anecdote. This means I can avoid starting with a boring and awkward cliché like “Today, I want to talk about…” or “My favourite thing is…” This allows me to give an answer that does not seem like a dull response to a cue card, but is rather an engaging story that would be interesting for the examiner. It makes it easier for me to think of ideas and incorporate vocabulary that I know.

Speaking of vocabulary, I did use a lot that relates to photography, but obviously that would not be helpful for most of you. I have also used verb tenses carefully to frame my response. It begins in the past, leads up to the present, and even talks briefly about the future! By having topic-specific vocabulary and an array of appropriate verb tenses, I have satisfied all the requirements for a good grammar and vocab score.

I also answered all parts of the cue card, but as I mentioned before, I inverted the order of the first two because I wanted to start with the idea of getting it in the past, which put the time slightly before the place. That’s not really important except that you should always order your ideas logically and in a way that will help you give a good answer.

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What Are Your Most Prized Possessions? (51 That Are On Most Lists)

What are your most prized possessions ?

And what makes them so?

You might say, “my prized possession is an old espresso maker my mother gave me when I moved out.”

Or you might jealously guard an heirloom collection of coins, vinyl records, or vintage jewelry because they remind you of departed loved ones.

Most people have something they treasure so much that losing it would cause them pain.

But what makes your prized possessions so precious to you?

And what are the benefits and downsides to your attachment?

What Is a Prized Possession?

Can a person be a prized possession, why we value prized possessions , what possessions do you prize the most.

A prized possession is something you value more than others because of an emotional attachment. There’s something special about it — even if it’s only special to you.

In most cases, there’s nothing shady about having prized possessions. We all have them or have had them. There are situations, though, when your attachment can be less benign:

When you’re willing to harm someone else to hold onto or reclaim the object
You panic or are unable to fulfill your duties due to fear of losing the object
Losing the item triggers a deeply painful and lasting grieving process

Your attachment to a prized possession can also fade with time or as your priorities change, and you learn to prize other, less tangible things more.

That said, you still might hold onto a few unique treasures, even if no one else understands why.

You’ll find people conspicuously missing on the list of prized possession examples further down because people cannot be possessions.

You may treasure your relationship with someone, but you don’t own them. They’re not your property. And that includes your children, though you are responsible for them until they’re able to be responsible for themselves.

variety of keepsakes most prized possession

If you owned them, you would have a right to use them however you pleased or even destroy them. No one has that right when it comes to other people.

As mentioned earlier, you prize your most prized possessions because you feel an emotional attachment to them. They have meaning for you that goes beyond their physical properties.

They connect you to something precious. Think of the possible reasons why:

It belonged to someone you love
It was given to you by someone you love
It reminds you of an important moment in your life
It reminds you of an important person in your life
It calls out to you — as if it were made just for you

Your Most Prized Possession? 51 of the Most Common

Keep in mind all 51 of these prized possession examples are material objects. And some of the items on your list of things you hold precious may be less tangible — like your closest relationships and your health.

We’re still willing to bet you found some delight in at least one of the following.

1. Photographs of loved ones (living or deceased)

2. Family photos (professional or informal groupings)

3. Photos of your significant other

4. Books (a few favorites or an entire collection)

5. Baby book/s (with photos and recorded milestones)

6. Collection of personal journals (yours or someone else’s)

7. Engagement ring

8. Wedding ring

9. Wedding dress

10. A child’s memory box

11. A child’s artwork

classroom of students most prized possession

12. Handcrafted gifts from children

13. A favorite item you made in school

14. Houseplants

15. Homes (something owned)

16. Jewelry

17. Jewelry box

18. Parents’ wedding rings

19. Family heirlooms

20. Scrapbooks

22. Smartphones

23. Tablets

24. Laptops (esp MacBooks)

25. Gaming system (Xbox, Wii, etc.)

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What Was Your Most Precious Childhood Possession?

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Did you have what psychologists call a “transitional object” as a child? That is, a special stuffed animal, blanket or toy that you took everywhere? If so, what was it, and what do you remember about its role in your life? If you didn’t, what other important or beloved object do you remember from your childhood? Where is that object today?

In “A Firm Grasp on Comfort,” Perri Klass, M.D. writes:

So-called transitional objects — beloved blankets, tattered stuffed animals, irreplaceable garments — are frequent in the pediatric exam room. Some children clutch them to ease the stress of being examined or immunized, while others simply never leave the house without their favorites. Ask any small group of parents about transitional objects — or blankies, or lovies — and you’ll get a good story, usually of a precious item misplaced or lost at some critical juncture. Ask adults, and the most unlikely people tell you the names of their treasured childhood blankets or get misty-eyed about a stuffed bear. … The specificity of the child’s preference — and affection — parallels the developing ability to feel a strong specific attachment to particular people. The transitional object is “a bridge between the mother and the external world,” said Alicia Lieberman, an expert in infant mental health and a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. … As children get older, some transitional objects — especially stuffed animals — take on distinct personalities, moving toward a combined role as comforter and imaginary friend. Think of how Winnie the Pooh serves as Christopher Robin’s playmate, companion and sometimes problem child. Aloysius, the teddy bear in “Brideshead Revisited,” is taken along to Oxford. Indeed, Dr. Howard suggested that as many as 25 percent of young women going to college take along something identifiable as a childhood transitional object. The young adult going off to college, with or without stuffed animals or scraps of a favorite old blanket, should be a reminder that the challenges of separation — and the consolations and complexities of attachment — are not developmentally confined to the first years of life.

Students: Read the whole piece, then tell us…

What transitional object or other kind of precious possession do you remember from your childhood? What role did it play in your life?
What memories do you have of playing with, or even being comforted by, this object? Do you agree that it helped you with “the challenges of separation”?
Where is it today? Could you see taking it with you to college, or maybe passing it down to one of your own children someday?
What, if any, possessions in your life now play a role like this?

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when i was three years old my brother gave me one small pink teddy bear on my birthday. it is my most preciuos thing from my childhood because it was a gift from my brother and still i have it. i always keep it with my self. whenever i feel sad i talk with him i know it is wired but i love him because i feel like that i am with my brother. i take care of him like a baby. i like to keep the teddy bear always with me ^_^ 😉

Particularly, I have not any specific childhood possession, but I have beautiful memories about many toys that I had when I was a child. It is beautiful to remember those times.

I still have some of those toys in my house and when I see them sometimes I cry because I started to remember when I was this little girl. Time flies.

I think is important have something that reminds you who you are or where you come from. Sometimes people do not have the possibility of have everything in life, but good memories can make you happy and a childhood position can give to a person those good memories.

When we think about our childhood, we feel really good if we did well. In our childhood we did a lot of fun. I have precious possession in my past. I still could remember it from my childhood. When I was around six years old, I played Bow and Arrow. That time I and all of my cousins played it. In my childhood, I liked to play Bow and Arrow. I have lots of memory with my precious possession. One day those things made me unhappy for rest of my life. For that I swore I never touch it. Actually I do not know where it is. After that happened, my mother threw garbage. Expect those things I did a lot of fun in my childhood.

Yes, I remember about my childhood. When I was childhood I always played doll and I had collected a lot of doll. But today while I remember about my childhood life, I feel so sorrow. I agree and also think that everybody needs about “transitional object” because parents understand so easily which object his or her child like to do. Today also I try to similar between past and future life, so it plays in my life all the time.

I don’t remember any particular toy, I think I didn’t have a special one. But I remember my sister had a special blanket she used to take everywhere when she was little. She used to cry whenever she looked for it and couldn’t find it. She stopped using it when she was six years old so I don’t think it can be called a transitional object.

I don’t remember an object from my childhood because I usually didn’t like to play with toys. I always love to play soccer and all the time I had a soccer ball with me. I remember when I was young, sometimes I couldn’t take my soccer ball to school and I made a paper soccer ball with tape and I played with it. That was my object, a soccer ball, and I always took it with me in a backpack wherever I went. I didn’t think the soccer ball was a transitional object because years later I forgot about it and started to think different. Now I always have a gold chain that my mother gave me and I take care of it because I always think of her.

I don’t have a particular poseession that I had as a child, but I do remember having one toy I cherished the most. It was a doll. I have had a lot of toys and stuffed animals that brought back a lot of childhood memories. Nowadays kids don’t really play with toys so I can see that having those childhood memories is very important to kids so they can grow up and remember the good times they had with their things as a child.

When I was nine years old, my favorite childhood possession was a small soldier toy from a movie. It was the greatest toy that I had ever gotten because i would always think that it could protect me from monsters or a monster under the bed, but when years passed by, I gave the toy away to a little girl because she never had a toy before so I just gave it away. And it’s still my Favorite toy ever.

When I was a kid I didn’t used to play with toys, I don’t like them the only thing I liked was to play soccer. Soccer was my obsession, so the first thing that I did when I got home from school was to play soccer. Playing soccer was what I have been doing since my childhood and I’m going to keep doing it.

When I was child I had a nice bicycle. My dad gave me my 5th birthday. I always ride this bicycle. I always hang around with this bicycle near my house. Sometimes I and my other friends participated in bicycle riding in our school. One day I won the game and I go 1st prize. I still remember the prize was one puzzle and one nice pen. Then when I was in high school I was participated our city bicycle riding game and in this game I also got a 2nd prize. So I want to tell this childhood bicycle encourage me how to play role in my future life. I still have this bicycle in my home. It’s one of my best precious childhood possessions……

When I was a little girl I like to play a monster so my parent bought me black glasses. I used to cover my head with a black long hat. I still have those things with me .

I could remember the precious possession from my childhood is playing Cricket. At the first time it does play role in my general life. I used to play Cricket much batter than my other friends. I have to played cricket twice or three times in every week. I had hired from many different cricket teams and I had gone play with them. One day I started to play in a team but the team owner did not want to play me on that match. But fortunately, I had taken five wickets in that match and the end of the match I became man of the match and after that the owner became surprise. Yes I think that it is challenges. Still now I like to play cricket because it gives me some fun.

My most precious childhood possession was a tail. My father gave me a dress with a tail when i was four years old. After that i kept this tail. Beacause it’s color is brown with heavy fur, looks so real. I used the tail three times so far for stage programmes. We get always 2nd place, i belive it is really lucky for 2nd place. most of the time i used to love 2nd prize. so……;)

I remembered the precious possession from my child hood is rag doll. I like the cute and lovely stuffs. It didn’t play an important role in my life because I was always attracted by some new things. However, it is still in my home today. I used to play at home rather than outside when I was child. I don’t agree that it helped me with “the challenges of separation”. Also, I don’t think that I would take it with me forever or passing down to one of my children someday. I think that the object belongs to my childhood, it shouldn’t be taken. Now, I don’t have any possessions like that in my life. Moreover, I think there were not so specific items in my childhood. In my opinion, it seems I could play anything that I found with myself whole day when I was child. On the other hand, childhood is treasured to most of us because we can never go back.

When i was child i like to play with football. My dad gave me a football I’m 5th birthday. i always played this football with my friends. So when i was growing up gradually football become my popular game. So as a result I participated so many football games. I still have the first football.

When I was younger my most precious possessions were my legos, G.I. Joe’s and my nerf guns. These possessions all helped create my childhood and help me enjoy myself and entertain me when I was home by myself or bored. If you were sad or did not have a good day those toys would be there for you to play with and it helps you escape reality for a while and it makes you happy again. I also had a stuffed animal when I was little that I would always bring everywhere and if I was scared when I was sleeping or if I was just scared I would hold onto that stuffed animal and it made me feel better about things. Toys really help kids take off the stress and let them relax and enjoy life more if they are not enjoying themselves at the moment.

My most valuable and precious possession from when I was a kid was my large Big Bird toy. Big Bird is a character from Sesame Street. He was always my favorite. I woke up really early every morning to watch Sesame Street when I was little because Big Bird was in it. One day on my third birthday, my mom gave me a Big Bird Toy and you cannot imagine how much I loved that toy. I didn’t have a sister to play with so I would play with my Big Bird. I would take Big Bird everywhere with me. I would place him in the swings when we were at the park and push him gently on the swings. We would dance, watch TV together, and play tea party together too. But most importantly, my Big Bird toy made me feel safe from all the monsters under my bed and scary things in the closet. My Big Bird toy occupied my time and made me happy. It wasn’t just a toy. My Big Bird was my best friend.

If I didn’t have a plastic baby when I was five years old, I don’t think my childhood would have been as interesting. That baby was the same height as me; it was like my best friend. I took it everywhere with me and loved it with all my heart. When people came over to my house, I showed them the baby from far away and didn’t let them touch it. It was so precious to me, that baby. That toy that loved is still in India in my old house in the attic. I was able to relive memories when I went to India last summer. Everything was coming back to me when I held that plastic baby in my hands. It did help me with the challenges of separation because I used to be admitted into hospitals every other week when I was young. Whenever the doctor had to inject a needle into my skin, I clutched onto the baby. I see myself giving it to my children one day. I hope they never have to go through the feeling of being lonely throughout their childhood. I was a baby filled with happiness and I believe that baby was the reason behind it.

I actually never had said transitional object, I was not much of a materialistic child, having been raised in a family that believed accordingly. However, I did have a few toys I preferred over others, such as a stuffed zebra and two twin baby dolls. I would even crawl under the table just to play in a secret spot that was only mine and theirs. As I grew older, I simply forgot about them, and with that stowed them away. Thus, I do not consider them true transitional toys and see myself favorite toy free. I suppose it would have been nice to have something that felt like someone to take around everywhere, but it seems like the inevitable separation is a lot to bargain for.

As I look back at my childhood, I think of many friends playing with many different dolls and toys. Yet, I don’t remember me playing with a different toy every day or getting excited about a brand new doll. I remember having that one doll that I couldn’t live without, Rosy. I went everywhere with her, she was the reason I felt safe. I fed her, put her to sleep, she was like my little baby and being an only child my whole life, she kept me company. When I was about nine, I came to the United States from Cuba, I brought her, but I never really played with her or anything anymore. I don’t really know why, but It’s like I grew up and she was not needed as much as before. Right now, I’m not really attached to anything like I was to Rosy, and I hope that my children one day can love her as much as I did.

My stuffed monkey was my transitional object from my childhood. This stuffed animal was a feeling of safety and security for me. My mother traveled a lot for her job when I was younger, and the stuffed monkey made me think of her, since she got it for me. My monkey always helped me get through things, and especially “the challenges of separation”. Today, my monkey is sleeping safely in my attic. I can see me taking my monkey with me to college for the safe and comforting feeling. I can also see myself passing it down to my children.

My most precious childhood possession would have to be the stuffed dolphin my grandma gave my sister and I the summer before she died. We call it “Grandma Dolphin” as a way to always remember her. Technically she gave it to my sister when she was younger, but my sister ended up passing it down to me. My grandma loved dolphins, so when we were down the shore one summer, she won it for us. I would always sleep with it every night. I still have it today, and whenever I see it, I’m reminded of her. It’s been 10 years since she died, and every memory I had with her is still fresh in my mind. I don’t think I will ever get rid of it.

My most precious childhood possession would have to be my old blue blanket. It was given to me by my Grandparents on the day I was born and has been with me ever since. I remember having so many great memories with this blanket. To any other person my blanket may look like an ordinary beat up bed sheet, but to me it was the door to my imagination. First it’s a rocket that soars through space. Then it could be a fierce tiger in the jungle. The blanket had endless possibilities and it helped me have an enjoyable childhood. The blanket still sits in my bedroom drawer waiting to be played with. It shall forever stay with me until I have kids of my own. The little things in life could be the ones with the most attachment.

My most precious items from my childhood wasn’t a single item. Rather, it was a collection of items or to be more specific, my Yu-Gi-Oh cards. These cards played a huge role in my life. They were practically everything to me! First off, all my friends had them so if I didn’t have any, I would feel left out. I remember playing with them every single day. Sometimes, I would just look through them and feel comforted. Today, it is currently in the bottom drawer of my room. Nevertheless, I will always treasure my memories of them. Now, there’s really no possessions that play a role in my life.

My most precious childhood possession was my brown teddy bear, Cynthia. I would tell Cynthia everything and bring her almost everywhere. For me Cynthia was a bestfriend, confidant, and comfort. I remeber getting her from build-a-bear workshop on my fifth birthday and I held onto her up until I was 10. When I reached ten and still had an attatchment to Cynthia, my mom deemed it unhealthy and tried to separate us. She hid her for days and I’d be crying, trying to find her because I lost her. Then, one day, I forgot all about her.

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My Most Prized Possession: An In-depth Analysis of Materialism

Bryan Tortolani

Possessions may come and go, but often the emotional attachment associated with them remains eternal. I have a disturbingly long history of losing my possessions. Given my history, I rarely allow myself to form an emotional attachment to my possessions. Nevertheless, there have been a few possessions that have provoked within me a deep psychological connection that continues to stir my emotions even today, even though I no longer possess them. A passport, photo album, and a stuffed animal were among my most treasured lost possessions. These lost possessions fill me with a feeling of profound grief and anxiety, which is accompanied by a warm nostalgic feeling of times long past. Three years ago I was psychologically reunited with one of my most prized possessions.

On my thirty-fourth birthday a huge package was delivered to my door. I was surprised to discover that it was sent by my mother. I could not begin to guess what the package might contain because my mother's standard gifts were always the same. My mother always sent me a check accompanied by a very impersonal card, which she rarely bothered to sign. I suppose she felt the signature on the check was enough, so she regularly adhered to her efficient nature by leaving the card unsigned, avoiding redundancy. My mother's aloofness has often bothered me, so it was not unusual for me to be excited at the sight of something that was potentially more personal and meaningful than her usual gifts.

Exhilarated, I quickly tore open the package as if I were a ten-year-old boy on Christmas morning. With stray pieces of cardboard littering the floor and lime-green Styrofoam scattered in every direction, I held up my new treasure, an exact replica of the stuffed animal I had lost years earlier. The original monkey had been given to me by my mother while I was undergoing a bone-marrow transplant. My mother and I had been estranged prior to my illness; we had always had a detached and remote relationship. The monkey symbolized a level of closeness that had been foreign to our relationship.

I could not control my tears as I inspected the dark-brown and incredibly soft stuffed monkey. His glass eyes had a humanlike characteristic of warmth and affection. His cute, happy expression, round soft stomach, and clumsy body were evocative of my unique characteristics as a child. As I squeezed him affectionately, out of the corner of my eye I noticed something else buried under the remaining packing material. I reached down and pulled out a second, much smaller monkey. With closer examination I discovered that it was a baby monkey with clenched forefingers and extended thumbs that fit in the monkey's open mouth. I took the little arm and placed the extended thumb in the cute little monkey's mouth. Spent with emotion, I drifted off into a daydream.

Suddenly, I was transported back to the lonely, cold hospital room where I had received the bone-marrow transplant. Most of my friends were unable to deal with watching me shrivel up and possibly die. Fortunately, I had a dedicated girlfriend and my mother as regular visitors. In fact, my girlfriend was allowed to sleep over as long as she underwent a rigorous disinfecting process. She also had to sport an entire surgical outfit with sanitary slippers, hat, and facemask. My father, on the other hand, was unable to accept my condition and chose instead to retreat into the safety of denial. Unfortunately for me, and the two women in my life, this meant that I had only two regular visitors. They both tried to make up for the others' weaknesses by dedicating an enormous amount of their time to visiting with me.

I will never forget the moment my mother brought me the stuffed monkey. I remember the smell of the disinfectant and the way the sun's rays swept past my window reflecting off the stainless steel bedrails as a dark reminder of the world outside moving along without me. The television was off and I was concentrating on the sound of the birds singing outside my window over the continuous beeping and pumping of the many machines needed to keep me alive. The contrast between machinery and nature was so great that I longed for some semblance of the natural world. My girlfriend's mother had sent me many crystals, which I surrounded myself with, and my aunt had sent me a tropical fish mobile from Hawaii. I valued these treasures greatly and lacked the words to fully express their significance and meaning. Each gift represented thoughtful devotion, love and the natural world, which was everything that my inert machine bound existence denied me. Yet I had nothing of equal meaning from my immediate family.

While lying in my hospital bed, I could hear the steady pattern of my mother's footsteps approaching my door. I felt relief to have a break in the monotony, but was not particularly excited because an emotional barrier remained between my mother and me. I was aware she was giving up much of her life to be with me each night, and I could tell by her graying hair and haggard face that she was under a great deal of stress over my condition, yet I longed for a relationship built on a deeper connection. I needed her to express verbally what I could see in her face, that she loved me and wanted me to live. On that day, when she came around the corner, holding something in her hand, my somber mood quickly lifted.

She was smiling as usual, but this time it didn't appear strained or artificial. I watched her go through the routine of disinfecting herself. Even after she washed up and tied on her surgical mask, I could still feel her smiling. She then walked over to her usual seat by the window and handed me the monkey. No words were needed. I realized that given her distant nature she was unable to express her feelings to me verbally and gifting the monkey to me was her way of showing me affection. The monkey represented the words she was unable to express. When she had brought me the tropical fish mobile from my aunt and I had told her how much it meant to me, her face turned white and she stammered for a few minutes before making a quick retreat. I felt that she wanted to tell me the things I need to hear, but she was unable to do so.

The feeling of my wife's arms tenderly wrapping around my waist snapped me out of my daydream. As I stood holding my two new possessions, I thought of the big monkey as representing my mother and the infant representing me. Although I no longer need the stuffed animals, the fact that my mother remembered after over ten years is what touched me so deeply. I keep the animals in plastic on top of a bookcase and rarely think of them. It is the act of receiving them that I prize, not the actual material object. What I consider to be my "prized possessions" are not material in nature, but are treasured in my heart and soul. Material objects often come and go but treasured memories last a lifetime.

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Through the years, I have learned that our culture places a great deal of emphasis on owning things such as cars, jewelry, clothes, and shoes. But our most valuable possessions in life may not be things we own. These items are very different from person to person. For me, my most valuable possessions are my family and friends, love, and my memories. Each one has a unique quality that helps me to manage the distractions and stresses that life presents to me.

My family and friends are so important to me because they are the closest people in my life. They know me better than anyone else and of course they will be there for me when I need them. Because of that, I make them the priority in all I do. It is easy for me to always choose my family before work or any other activities I am involved in. However, I also make time in my busy life to spend time with friends and family members. My family is the only family I have and I value them because they cannot be replaced.

When I am dealing with work, school, and all the other distractions that stress my life, it is nice to escape with a group of friends and does something that is very productive such as go to eat, watch movie, or relax a little at a bar. My friends and family really help me reduce stress in life which helps me stay healthy. Memories are my second most important possession. I can never replace memories and photos that I have taken over the years. I take pictures to remember things such as parties, family gatherings, and trips.

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I enjoy going back and looking at them and remember what happened. I have a lot of pictures that have been in the family for many of years. There are pictures that could never be replaced such as my mother, father and the rest of my family that have passed away. While I was in the Navy I always took pictures of what I was doing, the places I have been, and all the good times I had with my friends. Memories mean everything to me, and that is all I have. You cannot turn back the hands of time and relive those moments.

Love is my third valued possession because of one’s natural desire to be desirable. When a person possesses another’s love, it is understood that he or she possesses it only because the other person wills it so. Therefore, because someone must be give love to have love, it makes it much more difficult to obtain and all the more valuable. Because love is so much more difficult to obtain than material possessions, it is much more important to most. Without security, one could never really enjoy all the love they have obtained.

This is because they would constantly be worrying that it would be taken away. People need to be told and shown that they are loved when they are in love. It is not enough to just have love. In our society, everyone has different things that they value. Some people value materialistic things and some value things that are not own. Through the years, I have valued everything in my life. But there are something’s I value more than others and that is my family, love, and my memories. With these values, I am who I am today.

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My Prized Possession (Essay Sample)

When you buy something expensive you have the tendency to take good care of it. You saved and disciplined yourself just to be able to buy that thing. It may be a bag, jewelry, shoes or anything that can be bought by money. Working hard for a material thing that you really dreamed of having will be a success once you already own it. Some saves money for a house or a car or an educational plan. Whatever it may be as long as you worked hard for it, you will consider it your most prized possession. But is something not bought from money can be considered a prized possession? What is a real prized possession for you? Is it the most expensive gift you have received or the thing you inherited from your parents?

Remember yourself as a kid, you cannot have anything unless your parents give it to you. They give you all the things that you want and need as much as they can. They provide you with all the love and support for you to grow up strong and confident. Their love as parents became your foundation on how you are as a person. Growing up you meet friends. You will discover that apart from the family you have at home you can also have people that act like family outside. You get to know them better and your quirks matches them and then you click. You will love them like family and even more you will share them your dreams and aspirations. Your family and friends are the people who support you and give you all the love and care that you need. Their affection cannot be compared to any material things that you own.

The most prized possession that anyone can have is love. Love may be overrated and superficial but it is the only thing that anyone can offer even without money. Some of us are not fortunate enough to have money and buy expensive stuff but if you give love, every negative thing will turn into positive. When you have love, you have courage, you have strength, you have freedom, and you have all what it takes to be a happy individual. Love gives all of us contentment and joy that no money can buy.

The most prized possession of a person will not always be the most expensive thing that he owns. It can be something that is valuable and important that is why it is considered most prized. Most prized does not mean most expensive. It means that it is something that a person cannot live without. We may not admit it at some point in our lives, but believe it or not, there is no creature in this world that can live without love. Love makes the world go round. Love goes beyond the boundaries of what any man can hope to achieve since it is naturally inherent to us all. Love is even seen the moment you buy what you deem as your “prized possession” since you, yourself will do anything in order to keep it in good shape by devoting time and effort into it. In essence, we are all created with love, from love and in love.

Love is the most prized possession that no one can steal from you. They may fool you or hate you but the love will remain because love is in all of us. It is present even in the absence of peace. It can be given even by a small child. Love is the foundation of everything that surrounds us. We are the most prized possession on earth, therefore we are love.

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Hi Sophie and partners! I think my favourite thing is my dolly. It was given to my for my parents at my ninth birthday. When I see it I reminds me of my childhood. It's fantastic. My dolly is very beautiful, it is about 40 cm tall and it is black. It is made in Spain in a factory called "D'azucar". In Madrid or Barcelona you can visit the shop-museum and to buy clothes for it. I like it because you can choose all kind of clothes: dresses, skirts, t-shirts, jackets, shoes and go on. When I was a girl my parents bought me a suit for the dolly at my birthday and Christmas. I absolutely love it because I remember when I played at home... Nowadays, it is on my bed. I want to be a girl again!

The most favourite thing I have is my PC with internet connection of course. I have had it for more than fifteen years and I think is one of the most important inventions of humans. Thanks to computers, science and communication have advanced dramatically in the world. Everyday PC helps me to find many questions I have about a lot of topics, studies,jobs, music, books, cinema,cooking recipes, news,laws, pets, animals, plants, photography, nutritional information... and It keeps me in touch at all family and friends who live far from me. This is very important to me because maybe I had lost the contact with many of them and I learn all the important events that happen in our life at this time. I think everything around me would be very different without my favourite thing. Ana

My favourite thing is my boots. They are made of leather and rubber on the soles. They are handmade. I’ve had them for seven years, I made them myself in a course on leather in the school Rio Cuerpo de Hombre and they always remind me of the people who made them with me. I liked the course because I met a lot of people there who are my friends now. The course lasted about six months. The boots are about 50 cm, size 40 and they weigh about 1 kg. I need them for walking but I made them a bit bigger, but I absolutely love them because I made them myself!!! Beatriz Martín

My favourite possession is a turnkey. I was given it when my father bought me the first motorbike. It's made of foam and on it it can read " Moto Poten " The name of the motorbike shop. I've had it since 1992, the year which my father bought me the motorbike. When I see it remember my motorbike and how long it took me to convince my father until he bought me the machine and for that I absolutely love it. Faus.

My favorite posession is my glasses. The first,when I was a Child,I hate it, but now, I love it. I usually wearing a red glasses, but in the past I had a blue, green, black and brown glasses. I think that I'll buy a orange glases next summer!!! Eva

Hi guys, This time I'm going to write about my favourite possession. I have some different things I really like but if I have to choose one, I'll take my trumpet. Answering why I take it is difficult. I'm not a good player, it sounds horrible whenever I try to practise any song, however, with effort, in the future it will sound great. Knowing that the trumpet becomes my favourite possession, it helps me relax and have discipline. Maybe, now it's difficult and hard to play and play every day, but when I get to be a good musician and enjoy myself and the people who would listen to my music, the trumpet will become the best thing I have ever had. Thanks for reading it. Daniel Hernández

Hi Dani!! I love the sound of the trumpet for Jazz music. I have a question for you about your favourite possession. Have you got neighbours next to you when you play with it? Ana

MY FAVOURITE POSSESSION And if I say my favourite possession it is me? But, it is not the moment to be a philosopher. A good possession for me is, maybe, my collection of books. I have a few thousand of them and, in fact, I do not have place in my house to put them. I only started to read when I was a tenager: I lived in a small village and I didn´t have any money to buy books. But, month out month, year out year I have bought my library. Obviously, there are books of all kind. Like you know, not all ones are made of paper. Don´t you have a manuscript? It´s made of leather. But it is not the normal case. I have a book made in old and yellowish paper which I bought in a Market Street twenty years ago: Gramática Castellana. It was made and was published in 1920. I don´t remember how many it did cost me but not more than twenty pesetas. It weighs about 300 grams. It reminds me old years and a very good holiday. I use it a lot because I like to compare the old grammatical rules with the new ones: there are a lot of differences. But, what can I say if I have also in my house two computers, one I-book and one I-pad. I like my books, but I also like the technology. And, what about you? Antonio Gutiérrez Turrión

Hi everybody, I think my favorite possession are my vinyl LPs. I don´t have too much, but every one remind me a diferent moment of my life when I was young. Something similar like a John Cusack´s film "High Fidelity". Even, at first, I started to buy LPs before I had my first a LP player and I needed to go to a friend´s house to copy the music into an audio cassette device. In those times I had no too much money and I usually spend the main amount of that in music. Them stay at home, with or without friends, listening more and more times the last LPs. Is a miracle that no one is scratched. The first LP I have is "Darkness on de edge of town" by Bruce Springsteen, and the last one I have brought is "Mi Universo" by Cooper (Alex Diez, ex-Flechazos) that I have buyed in Cordoba last february. For a long period of time, since I started to work in Madrid, I stoped to buy LPs. Be an adult, with bills and rent to pay, did me to think that I don´t should to waste money in no necessary thing like music. Today that reasons is why i love it , because all of them bring me back to a happy days with my friens. Some times we meet, and spend long time listening old records together. That´s all folks. Víctor.

I started thinking about what I possess and the list of things I couldn't live without as you said at the blog... and the conclusion has surprised me. One of my favourite thing is a MP3 player I bought some years ago... it was my first MP3 player and I spend several days, maybe weeks thinking about what kind of MP3 would be the best for me... and I really chose just the right one. It has only 2Gb, and it is a bit big, but his main feature was that it function with a AAA battery... so, if I go out for a sightseeing or on a long trip by train, or I stay all the day on the beach...I pick 2 or 3 AAA batteries and I am sure I will be able to listen music or the radio all the day or all the weekend. Her radio connect me with the world, the music accompany me when I am alone too... it is a good friend. I have had some MP3, more expensive and better, but with this one I'm completely sure of continue to listen the music, the radio or the podcasts... and so on... I don't need to run to recharge it, simply I change the battery. luismi

I think one of my favourite things is my Karate-do Black Belt. I’ve had it since 1993. It was given to me after passing the first Dan Test by an examining board composed of expert Karate masters. The Dan Test is a Karate-do grading examination which includes technical, practical and oral requirements. The colour of a Karate-do belt indicates the rank and, in theory, the ability of a karateka. The Black Belt is made of silk covered cotton and the name of the Karate-do style is usually embroidered in Kanji, a kind of Japanese writing. I like my black belt because it just reminds me of what karate-do means. The Black Belt is a symbol and represents an accumulation of skills and knowledge, effort and perseverance as well. When a Karate-do student reaches this level many internal changes have been experienced as the result of the path. At the beginning of Karate practice the belt is white. If the student trains enough, the white belt would eventually darken. At the same time, if student continues practising after reaching the Black Belt, this will naturally spend its colour by usage, taking up little by little the original white colour. Finally, the worn out belt becomes white belt again, a symbol of return to origin, humility and wisdom..., white to black and black to white. White colour also represents "empty mind" (notice that Karate-do means “the way of empty hand”). Fernando.

My favorite possesion isn´t really mine. It´s my grandfather´s market garden, a piece of ground where he used to plant all kind of vegetables and we call it "La vega". Now it belongs to my parents, but as they aren´t in the town (Lumbrales), I´m the one who keep it alive. I usually spend all the summer in my town and take care of the market garden and I plant a lot of things: tomatoes, potatoes, beans, peppers, strawberries, watermelons, onions... This thing is so important for my because it makes me remember my grandfather and makes me forget all the rest of the world while I´m working on it... and the market-garden products are very very tasteful, much more than the "vegetables" bought at the supermarkets. Román

Hi everybody! I think my favourite possesion is my cat. It was given to me by my mother in law last christmas, and I love it because we found it in a closed bag when it was about to die. My boyfriend´s mum was caring it during the summer and autumn, but she know I loved it so she presented it to me. Its name is "Miércoles" and it is a pretty girl cat. We called it like this because we found it on Wednesday (we are very original ;) ). It is small (55 by 60 cm) and it weighs about 4 kg. It loves having sunbathe in the street and hunting flies (it is very good at it). Ana Pereda

My favourite possession is not a material thing because i am not really interested in this things. My favourite possession is my dog, its name is "socks". I have it since 7 years ago. I found it in the street because it was abandoned for his old owners and i carried it with me. I absolutely love it because i have lived my better moments with it. it is brown and have in the end of his legs white so i called it "socks". it is the most beautiful dog than i have ever seen, if oneday something happen it i don't know that i would do without it because it is irreplaceable.it is my best friend and i know it won't fail me. Laura

hi everybody, As i promised the last class, here is my introduction on the blog. I have three favourite possessions, my village, my car, and my rabit. My village, which is "El Cerro", is, for me, the most beautiful place in the world, there are many tranquility, there is no contamination and you can breathe fresh air. My car is other of my possessions, I compete with it in sound competitions, i got give 130db in my category whith two woffer and two trumpet. Also, I have a white rabbit which name is Guss. One friend gave me it five years ago. Was a present for my birthday. My rabbit is as a teddy, I like to touch him because is very soft. That is all for now, when I have other possesion I´ll tell you here best whishes Rubén

My favorite possession is a box.It´s made of wood and metal.The wood is old and dark and It's shape is square. It was given to me by friend as a present in a "Secret Santa"party and I liked it very much. When I was given the box it was empty and I didn´t keep anything in it, so I decided to turn it into a jewel case because I have a lot of earings. Isabel

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My favourite possession is my glasses. I think I cannot see anything clearly without my glasses.These help me to see clearly and feel the beauty of nature.

My favourite possession would be a One Piece ship that I built within a period of around 6 days to complete, I received it from a close family member and it was given to me on Christmas.It sometime does fall on my desk but it really looks stunning and I will remember it for eternity. I was also given a miles Morales game inside that same box with the parts of the ship.I can definetly say that the time used to build it was definetly worth it.

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A Bat Flew Into My Bedroom and Reminded Me of All We Take for Granted

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One night a few weeks ago I went to bed early, bothered by the oppressive heat and dismayed by that week’s political news — President Biden’s lackluster ABC News interview and Donald Trump’s claim earlier that day that he knew “nothing” about Project 2025 . I was tired, too, from explaining the recent daily news broadcasts to my two daughters — one 6 and the other one 10 — including what the phrases “hush money” and “porn star” meant. My husband stayed up working, and very early the next morning a bat flew into our bedroom, through a screen door left open by accident. What happened over the next few days restored my faith in the systems in our country that keep us safe.

“Bat!” I told my husband, sleeping beside me. Though it was still dark, the thick flapping was unmistakably the sound of Earth’s only flying mammal.

“It’s one thing after another,” my husband said, clambering out of bed to grab something to catch it with.

This happened to us before, about five years ago, which is when we learned about the need to isolate and trap any bat that invades our sleeping space for rabies testing. Though bats are beneficial insectivores, they’re also our highest risk for contracting rabies, a fatal disease carried by about 6 percent of bats tested in the continental United States.

We isolated the bat in our bedroom, making sure it couldn’t get upstairs where our daughters sleep, but it escaped through the door to the porch. To decide what to do next, we consulted every resource. Richard, my husband, read the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website. I called our health care after-hours line and spoke to a nurse who also consulted the C.D.C. We called our county’s animal control center, and an officer was at our house within 10 minutes. He searched the house and garage for bats, found none and put in a report to our county’s public health department.

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Possession Summary

The novel opens in the autumn of 1986 in London. Roland Michell is a researcher who has recently completed his PhD studying the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash , but now finds himself frustrated by the lack of a permanent academic job. While looking through a book owned by Ash, he finds two drafts of letters addressed to an unknown woman whom Ash seems to have been struck by and sought to continue a conversation with. Roland is intrigued and steals the letters from the library without telling anyone he has found them.

Working from what he knows of Ash, Roland develops a hypothesis that the woman addressed in the letters is Christabel LaMotte , a less well-known Victorian writer who has been recently rediscovered by feminist scholars. He travels to Lincoln to meet with Maud Bailey, a scholar who specializes in researching LaMotte. Maud allows him to look at some documents which offer small hints that a correspondence between Christabel and Ash may have taken place in 1858 and 1859. A relationship between the two would be a significant discovery, as Ash has always been perceived as a happily married man, and Christabel (who never married, and lived with a female companion for an extended period) has been widely considered a lesbian. Roland confides in Maud about the letters he has discovered, and she becomes equally consumed by a desire to know what happened. Maintaining secrecy around their research is vital, since a group of scholars including James Blackadder , Leonora Stern , and especially Mortimer Cropper aggressively pursue any knowledge or discoveries concerning either poet.

By chance, Roland and Maud discover a collection of letters hidden in the house where Christabel lived in the later part of her life. These letters document the correspondence between the two poets as they gradually fell in love with one another over a period of months. The letters end abruptly in the spring of 1859. Roland, with his knowledge of Ash’s biography, knows that in June 1859 the poet spent a month travelling in Yorkshire, and wonders if it possible that Christabel went with him. Roland and Maud go together to retrace this journey, and become increasingly convinced that hints contained in the writings of both authors indicate that they were together during this time. Scenes set in the time the poets were alive confirm that Christabel and Ash did secretly travel together as lovers.

Roland and Maud now face a new question: if Christabel was with Ash, what happened next? By coincidence, Maud’s friend and collaborator Leonora Stern has been informed of a discovery in France which might provide information about Christabel. Maud and Roland follow up on this information and discover documents describing how Christabel fled to France after discovering she was pregnant, and secretly gave birth. The whereabouts of the child were never determined. By now, the other scholars have also pieced together information about the relationship and are determined to unlock the secret of what became of the child. Cropper is the most aggressive, and the others begin to suspect that he plans to dig up the grave of Randolph Henry Ash, since he believes additional documents have been buried along with the poet.

On October 15, 1987, Roland and Maud, along with a group of allies who have been drawn into the research project, confront Cropper and his helper as they try to rob the grave. Nonetheless, they all agree to open and read the letter Cropper retrieved. The letter is from Christabel to Ash: when she learned he was dying, she sent him a letter finally explaining that she had given birth to a daughter who has been raised by her sister. Their daughter, May Bailey (an ancestor to Maud) has lived a happy life without ever knowing who her true parents were. Ash’s wife was supposed to give him the letter, but she never did, and it was buried unopened. Meanwhile, legal experts have confirmed that as a descendant of both poets, Maud will inherit all the letters and documents, and can make them available for new scholarship. With their project finally completed, Maud and Roland admit they have fallen in love with each other while working together on their research. The novel ends with a hopeful implication of their beginning a relationship together.

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Baldwin's essay "My Dungeon Shook," written in the form of a letter to his young nephew, was first published in The Progressive in 1962; the following year a revised version was included in "The Fire Next Time" (now included in a new collection from Everyman's Library). The letter is a powerful treatise on the state of racism in America - how it affects Black people whose very dignity is circumscribed by social constructs, as well as whites undermined by their lack of understanding and their feelings of fear. It richly illustrates the ironies of how race relations can dampen the humanity of all involved.

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"The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Finds Work" by James Baldwin

"My Dungeon Shook"

Letter to My Nephew on the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Emancipation

Dear James:

I have begun this letter five times and torn it up five times. I keep seeing your face, which is also the face of your father and my brother. Like him, you are tough, dark, vulnerable, moody—with a very definite tendency to sound truculent because you want no one to think you are soft. You may be like your grandfather in this, I don't know, but certainly both you and your father resemble him very much physically. Well, he is dead, he never saw you, and he had a terrible life; he was defeated long before he died because, at the bottom of his heart, he really believed what white people said about him. This is one of the reasons that he became so holy. I am sure that your father has told you something about all that. Neither you nor your father exhibit any tendency towards holiness: you really are of another era, part of what happened when the Negro left the land and came into what the late E. Franklin Frazier called "the cities of destruction." You can only be destroyed by believing that you really are what the white world calls a n----- . I tell you this because I love you, and please don't you ever forget it.

I have known both of you all your lives, have carried your Daddy in my arms and on my shoulders, kissed and spanked him and watched him learn to walk. I don't know if you've known anybody from that far back; if you've loved anybody that long, first as an infant, then as a child, then as a man, you gain a strange perspective on time and human pain and effort. Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his. Let him laugh and I see a cellar your father does not remember and a house he does not remember and I hear in his present laughter his laughter as a child. Let him curse and I remember him falling down the cellar steps, and howling, and I remember, with pain, his tears, which my hand or your grandmother's so easily wiped away. But no one's hand can wipe away those tears he sheds invisibly today, which one hears in his laughter and in his speech and in his songs. I know what the world has done to my brother and how narrowly he has survived it. And I know, which is much worse, and this is the crime of which I accuse my country and my countrymen, and for which neither I nor time nor history will ever forgive them, that they have destroyed and are destroying hundreds of thousands of lives and do not know it and do not want to know it. One can be, indeed one must strive to become, tough and philosophical concerning destruction and death, for this is what most of mankind has been best at since we have heard of man. (But remember: most of mankind is not all of mankind.) But it is not permissible that the authors of devastation should also be innocent. It is the innocence which constitutes the crime.

Now, my dear namesake, these innocent and well-meaning people, your countrymen, have caused you to be born under conditions not very far removed from those described for us by Charles Dickens in the London of more than a hundred years ago. (I hear the chorus of the innocents screaming, "No! This is not true! How bitter you are!"—but I am writing this letter to you, to try to tell you something about how to handle them , for most of them do not yet really know that you exist. I know the conditions under which you were born, for I was there. Your countrymen were not there, and haven't made it yet. Your grandmother was also there, and no one has ever accused her of being bitter. I suggest that the innocents check with her. She isn't hard to find. Your countrymen don't know that she exists, either, though she has been working for them all their lives.)

Well, you were born, here you came, something like fifteen years ago; and though your father and mother and grandmother, looking about the streets through which they were carrying you, staring at the walls into which they brought you, had every reason to be heavyhearted, yet they were not. For here you were, Big James, named for me—you were a big baby, I was not—here you were: to be loved. To be loved, baby, hard, at once, and forever, to strengthen you against the loveless world. Remember that: I know how black it looks today, for you. It looked bad that day, too, yes, we were trembling. We have not stopped trembling yet, but if we had not loved each other none of us would have survived. And now you must survive because we love you, and for the sake of your children and your children's children.

This innocent country set you down in a ghetto in which, in fact, it intended that you should perish. Let me spell out precisely what I mean by that, for the heart of the matter is here, and the root of my dispute with my country. You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason . The limits of your ambition were, thus, expected to be set forever. You were born into a society which spelled out with brutal clarity, and in as many ways as possible, that you were a worthless human being. You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity. Wherever you have turned, James, in your short time on this earth, you have been told where you could go and what you could do (and how you could do it) and where you could live and whom you could marry. I know your countrymen do not agree with me about this, and I hear them saying, "You exaggerate." They do not know Harlem, and I do. So do you. Take no one's word for anything, including mine—but trust your experience. Know whence you came. If you know whence you came, there is really no limit to where you can go. The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. Please try to remember that what they believe, as well as what they do and cause you to endure, does not testify to your inferiority but to their inhumanity and fear. Please try to be clear, dear James, through the storm which rages about your youthful head today, about the reality which lies behind the words acceptance and integration. There is no reason for you to try to become like white people and there is no basis whatever for their impertinent assumption that they must accept you. The really terrible thing, old buddy, is that you must accept them . And I mean that very seriously. You must accept them and accept them with love. For these innocent people have no other hope. They are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand; and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it. They have had to believe for many years, and for innumerable reasons, that black men are inferior to white men. Many of them, indeed, know better, but, as you will discover, people find it very difficult to act on what they know. To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger. In this case, the danger, in the minds of most white Americans, is the loss of their identity. Try to imagine how you would feel if you woke up one morning to find the sun shining and all the stars aflame. You would be frightened because it is out of the order of nature. Any upheaval in the universe is terrifying because it so profoundly attacks one's sense of one's own reality. Well, the black man has functioned in the white man's world as a fixed star, as an immovable pillar: and as he moves out of his place, heaven and earth are shaken to their foundations. You, don't be afraid. I said that it was intended that you should perish in the ghetto, perish by never being allowed to go behind the white man's definitions, by never being allowed to spell your proper name. You have, and many of us have, defeated this intention; and, by a terrible law, a terrible paradox, those innocents who believed that your imprisonment made them safe are losing their grasp of reality. But these men are your brothers—your lost, younger brothers. And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it. For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. It will be hard, James, but you come from sturdy, peasant stock, men who picked cotton and dammed rivers and built railroads, and, in the teeth of the most terrifying odds, achieved an unassailable and monumental dignity. You come from a long line of great poets, some of the greatest poets since Homer. One of them said, The very time I thought I was lost, My dungeon shook and my chains fell off.

You know, and I know, that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too soon. We cannot be free until they are free. God bless you, James, and Godspeed.

Your uncle, James

From "The First Next Time" by James Baldwin. Reprinted by arrangement with Modern Library, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright © 1962, 1963 by James Baldwin. Copyright renewed 1990, 1991 by Gloria Baldwin Karefa-Smart.

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