The Missing Peace Summary

In the story “ The Missing Peace” Lamort is an uneducated person and doesn’t care too much about her own self. Her post has influenced her present because Lamort’s birth was what caused her mother's death. Lamort’s grandmother blames her for her mother’s death and is never satisfied by her behavior. Since Lamort didn’t have a mother, she really wanted approval from her grandmother. She tries to please her grandmother by living up to her standards and priorities and wished she could be more experienced and intelligent . She looks up to an independent women like Emilie and feels important when she can help them . Lamort accepts the violent, dangerous state of her world. So courage comes easily to her. She thinks nothing of bravely coming up with
excuses to protect Emilie from Toto, the church who stopped them when they tried to go to the churchyard. Emilie’s compliments and dependence on Lamort encourages her to be brave in her personal life as well, and their adventure together empowers her to stand up to her grandmother/ In the past, if Lamort's mother didn’t die, then she wouldn’t have want approval from her grandmother in the present. She would have wanted to live up to her grandmother's expectations to change herself now. As for me, something that happened in the past that affected my present life was when my younger brother was born. Although I was still very young, I felt that all the attention was given to him afterwards. In a way, this has affected my present life because now i don’t really get along with my younger brother as easy as I do with my older sister. It’s easy for us to get into fights and argue a lot with each other, because it made me develop a belief that my parents didn’t love me the way they used to since all the attention was given to my younger brother, but in a way, that belief also made me do better in school as I grew older show my parents what I’m capable of and what I can do in school. So as I grew older that jealous feeling inside me started to disappear and it made me more confident because as I was showing my parent what I can do, me myself kind of knew what I can handle by myself in the future. So in a way , that jealousy inside me in the past, shaped who I am now in the present.