Woman Warrior Memoir

I grew up hearing stories of how my great grandfather on my mother's side would treat me horribly as a child because i wasn't carrying the family name. So naturally i grew up thinking that he was this evil person that would be rude to me. Since he passed away before i could actually really know him, these memories were the ones that were at the front of my mind.So you could see how these memories influenced the way that i saw my great grandfather. I eventually learned that none of the things that i heard in the story was true. It had just been a joke that my parents had with each other, but being so small i really didn't understand. In reality, i imagine that there really wasnt any mistreatment and that this story was warped intto something in my mind and forgotten, causing my mind to believe that what i thought was actually the truth.