Years back there were lots of traditions that were consistently adhered to. People believed a multitude of different beliefs. Older generations still whole heartily believe in them, but the new generation wants to make their own moves. They don’t like to believe anything that they haven’t seen. They don’t like to be unfair. When it comes to expressing their feelings they don’t like to think about it twice. In the poem “Grand father at the Indian Health clinic” it was written, “At my insistence he wears his denim cowboy coat high on his neck; averse to / an unceremonious world, he follows me through / hallways pushing down the easy rage he always has / with me, a youngest child, and smiles”, The author describes how the grandfather is over protective about his grand daughter just because she is female and she is young. He makes her walk in front of him so he can keep his eyes on her. She is from a new generation, with new social norms, so she feels uncomfortable. Only because she respects him, she doesn’t refuse him. The older generation does not allow women or children to talk in front of them. That’s why she was little bit of afraid to talk back to her grand father.
In the essay “Inspired Eccentricity”, there is age difference between grand parents and their