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Beginning of a FAMOUS Hero: The Charles Dickens Story.
Life Lesson #38 – Do Your Part.
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco on March 26th, 1874. During his young childhood, life in California was all that he knew. But when was 11-years-old, his father died, and that’s when things began to dramatically change. Robert, along with his mother and little sister traveled all the way across the United States from California to Massachusetts to live near his grandparents. Life became difficult and very challenging for him, but he came to love the New England woods with their changing seasons, something he had not experienced in California. He also loved baseball, and whittling things from wood.
When he was just 12-years-old, he had to work during the summers and in much of what should have been his spare time to HELP support his family. He worked in a shoe factory and did chores for neighbors, but he still found time to read. And he loved hearing his mother read poetry. He memorized every word, as she read aloud each evening after dinner. While he was still a teenager, he began HELPING his mother teach school.
Even though he was willing to work hard to HELP his mother and sister, he knew that working in a factory or even teaching school was not what he wanted to do with his life. He often spent time walking through the woods, and as he walked, wonderful thoughts and words would come to his mind—words that he couldn’t wait to write down on paper. Those words became poems, and he published his first poem while he was still in high school.
Beginning then, and throughout the rest of his long life, that’s what he did. Yes, Robert Frost became an amazing poet. Maybe you’ve read some of his poems, or maybe you will soon! He became very famous, and the American people still think of him as their own special poet.
– Jim Lord