In the Celebration of Grandfathers, the narrator basically talks about the values that he appreciated and learned from both his grandmother and grandfather. As the narrator flashes back to the time when he was a young boy, as he encounters different conflicts and difficulties, his grandfather would also be the one solving them with his wisdom. One time, the narrator unexpectedly stepped on an ant hill which he didn't even notice, before he knows it, he was badly bitten. His grandfather then quickly covered the narrator's hand with some cool mud and calmly said to the narrator, "Know where you stand". As the narrator said himself, the way his grandfather talks was always like this, short, simple, and straight to the point. When a friend of the narrator dies, his grandfather pulled the narrator to the side and told him, "Think of the dead of trees and the fields in the fall. The leaves fall, and everything rests, as if dead. But they bloom again in the spring. Death is only this small transformation in life." As the flashback ends, the narrator was grown up and his grandfather has grown to a point where he was too old to do the labor he used to do. It was the narrator's turn to take care of his grandfather. When his grandfather doesn't get what he wants, he would turn sour and shout. The narrator would use the same Spanish phrase his grandfather used to say to him all the time, which was, "Ten paciencia", which means to be patient. In the end, the narrator stated the natural cycle of growth and change that everyone will experience, it is the "transformation" that his grandfather has told him about in that tree analogy. As his grandfather died at an age of ninety-four, the narrator has learned a tremendous amount of wisdom from him. The narrator came to a conclusion of that, "They don't make men like that anymore" to honor his beloved grandfather.