Eloisa B. Lucas

Mamma & Me Eloisa B. Lucas

MAMMA AND ME is a must book for families with children and teenagers growing up in a society of confusion, contradiction and mis-communication. The author had manifested the positive way of approaching the negative factor surrounding her environment, whether at home, on the road, in school or at work. The author shares her unforgettable morbid experience, at her early age of four, during World War II, where they lived in a community and Japanese soldiers were in seclusion; where homes in the community were burned by Japanese soldiers before her very eyes; where gunshots and bombs were heavy around the area; and where she walked on the soil where dead bodies of soldiers had practically covered the walk path; and the experience of hailing the arrival of the American soldiers in the community. A true story of a teenager who experienced the difficulties of growing up, a question of either ignoring or following her parents' wishes, and how she approached these problems. The approach and attitude of the author made her more relax in an environment full of uncertainty for herself, an environment which made her more responsible for her actions that she had to use her mental faculties to approach the situation and have a positive solution.