The Years That Shaped Me - E-book - ePub

The "years that shaped me" is a narrative about a young boy who is initially 5 years old at the time and lives with his grandparents, who are the only people he knows to be in his life. Life is good, and there is peace and love in his world, but it all suddenly changes the moment his mother appears from nowhere and takes him away; leaving him in the care of some relatives whose hearts were cold. He is astounded to learn that he has a mother because no one has ever mentioned it to him.
Not long after that, his mother vanishes after abandoning him with another relative, and she is never seen again. The five-year-old boy matures and attends school, but the grimmest storms have already begun in his tender life. The family that he has abandoned to, continuously treats him like an outsider; they forced him to plow the fields and has to work hard to earn a slice of bread; and at some point, they punish him with no food today as punishment.