HOW I CAN HELP MY PARENTS
My name is Rimma. I live with my
mother and father. I like to help them.
Every Sunday I clean my room. I take the
vacuum-cleaner and vacuum the carpets.
I sweep the floor, dust the sofa and the
chairs. I try to dust the furniture pro-
perly.
We have a lot of flowers at home.
Twice a week I water them. I like flowers
very much.
I help my mother to lay the table.
I bring plates, spoons and forks and put
them on the table. Every day I wash the
dishes after lunch and supper.
My mother cooks well, sometimes
I help her when she makes cakes. She
usually makes them before holidays and
on my birthday.
If I have time, my mother asks me to
go to the shop. I go there and buy bread,
eggs and sugar. Very often I go to the
market with my mother. We buy fruit
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2) According to Rowling, Harry is strongly guided by his own conscience, and has a keen feeling of what is right and wrong. Having "very limited access to truly caring adults", Rowling said, Harry "is forced to make his own decisions from an early age on. He "does make mistakes", she conceded, but in the end, he does what his conscience tells him to do. According to Rowling, one of Harry's pivotal scenes came in the fourth book when he protects his dead schoolmate Cedric Diggory's body from Voldemort, because it shows he is brave and selfless.Rowling has stated that Harry's character flaws include anger and impulsiveness; however, Harry is also innately honourable."He's not a cruel boy. He's competitive, and he's a fighter. He doesn't just lie down and take abuse. But he does have native integrity, which makes him a hero to me. He's a normal boy but with those qualities most of us really admire."For the most part, Harry shows humility and modesty, often downplaying his achievements; though he uses a litany of his adventures as examples of his maturity early in the fifth book. However, these very same accomplishments are later employed to explain why he should lead Dumbledore's Army, at which point he asserts them as having just been luck, and denies that they make him worthy of authority. After the seventh book, Rowling commented that Harry has the ultimate character strength, which not even Voldemort possesses: the acceptance of the inevitability of death.