The word sacrifice means that something is given up in order to benefit another person. Sacrifices can be placed into categories based upon what is being given up in order to benefit someone else. In the following paragraphs, I will give explanations about the sacrifices that people have made such as food, time, comfort, and roles of being a parent. The first sacrifice I will talk about is food in Andre Dubus' story "The Fat …showed first 75 words of 611 total…

…showed last 75 words of 611 total…children a wonderful life, but the children ended up the depending on the house more than they did their parents. However, in the end the parents were nowhere to be found. On a daily basis somewhere, someone, or something is being given up to sacrifice another. Even so, I could by no means visualize giving up my responsibility as a parent. In addition, never have the memories of teaching my children to do for themselves.