Born into the elite class of New York City, Eleanor Roosevelt has become one of the greatest female figures in the American political arena’s history. Through her words and actions, Eleanor Roosevelt has made many notable accomplishments in America’s history. It is without a doubt that America as we come to know it today would be much different if Eleanor Roosevelt hadn’t made her important contributions. Even though Eleanor was born into the elite class, she was faced with many daunting personal problems since early childhood. Yet she didn’t surrender to the overwhelming obstacles; instead, she learned how to deal with her personal problems and to rise above the narrow prejudices of her background and emerge as a great heroine of social justice and human decorum. On October 11, 1884, Anna Hall gave birth to young Eleanor Roosevelt. Together with Elliot Roosevelt, younger brother of Theodore Roosevelt, Anna Hall nurtured Eleanor to the best of her abilities. It seem that Eleanor was quite blessed, a member of the elite class, loving parents, and access to a world of limitless potentials. However, destiny wasn’t very kind to young Eleanor, at merely 8, her mother, Anna Hall, passed away. Shortly after Anna’s death, Elliot also died two years later. One can only imagine the devastating damage done to her as a result of losing her parents at such a young age. Eleanor’s grandmother took Eleanor to live with her; however, challenges were still unwrapping and presenting them to her daily. Even though Eleanor’s grandmother loves her dearly, “Grandmother Hall was preoccupied with her children; the aunts and uncles were absorbed in their own lives; and Madeline, the nurse, terrorized Eleanor. Scolding her viciously and pulling her hair for any misdemeanor. Always a timorous child, Eleanor became even more fearful of authority and began nervously chewing her fingernails.” (Youngs, 62) In many ways Eleanor’s grandmother’s loving intensions for Eleanor transformed into even more hardships for Eleanor to bear. Not only did Eleanor have the loss of her parents to deal with; but she also have to live in fear of being tormented by her nurse.
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