Descriptive Paragraph 2: A Significant Person

Descriptive Paragraph 2: A significant person Write a paragraph describing an influential or special person in your life. Who has or has had a positive influence in your life –by simply being a friend, by having a positive influence on you, or by teaching you a valuable life lesson?

Answer these questions in paragraph form. Make sure to include a title, an effective topic sentence, and a conclusion. Try to use descriptive adjectives to explain this person’s appearance, character, and your relationship. Use adverbs to describe his or her actions and how he or she influences you. See the sample for ideas.

1. Who is an important, special, or significant person in your life (from the past or present)? What is his or her name, and what is his or her relationship to you?

2. When and where did you first meet? How long have you known each other?

3. Describe this person’s physical appearance. What does he or she look like?

4. Describe this person's character. What are words you would use to describe his or her personality? What is he/she good at? How does he/she behave?

5. What do you like to do together with this person?

6. What does he/she add to your life or what has he/she taught you? How has he/she helped you?

7. Why is this person special, influential, or important in your life?

Sample paragraph:

The most influential person in my life is my mother, Fatima. She is a tall, thin, beautiful woman, with milk chocolate-colored skin, big, bright brown eyes, and medium-length jet black hair. She is a responsible, dependable, and patient woman who also enjoyed life and made others laugh. She is a good mother, sister, aunt, friend and a good provider who works and learns passionately. I watched her meet life's challenges head on and overcome. For half of my life, my mother did not have someone else to share the burden of raising my brothers and sisters and me. My father killed when I was ten. Thus, the responsibility normally shared by two parents, she carried alone. Since my father's death, life has not allowed my mother to rest. Within months of my father's death, my mother decided to leave Ethiopia for United States, in escaping from political persecution, and sacrificing her life and comfort of home to seek greater education and social opportunities for her children. Life in a foreign country has not always been full of delight and opportunity. As a family, we experienced economic hardship, the language barrier, and acculturation. My mother has never given up on anything- she has pushed aside her sorrow and grief in order to raise her children. She has been a fighter, a person of endurance. Amidst of difficult odds, I knew I could always go to my mother for comfort, advice, and support. After all these years, I finally see what an amazing influence my mother has been on my life. When thinking of those who are the most influential in our lives, we often look to those that are closest to us and for me that person has been and always will be my mother.

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