Argumentative Essay On Tradition And Family

Imagine a world, dear reader, without your family. No one to hug you. No one to share your days with. No one to play catch with. No one to celebrate your birthdays with. Now without family, imagine your holidays: no one to take you trick-or-treating. No one to have Thanksgiving dinner with. No one to watch fireworks with on 4th of July. Imagine the loss of even the littlest tradition, like movie night or taco tuesday. Traditions require family to work, therefore it shapes your perspective and interaction with them. Take that away, Family is weakened, but still molds you. Take that away, you become a husk, a shell of what you should’ve been with your family and the traditions they hold dear. An individual’s family and tradition have the most influence on one’s perspective because it molds and shapes an individual into the person they should be. It sets them on a road, a road they’ll keep travelling forever. …show more content…
Now while it does, I argue that Tradition and Family are the true powers that guide our perspectives. See although media can influence perspective through persuasion and advertisements, subliminal or otherwise. However Tradition and Family have the more profound effect for instance Jennifer New states that she intends, this coming thanksgiving to “have a meal with my parents and husband.”(New, 71). She keeps that tradition, the tradition started long ago when she had the lens of a child. A tradition revolving around family, that although was seemingly changed from dinner to the adventures in the mystical urban jungle. That urban center, that city, she traveled to with family. The tradition she keeps isn’t dinner with people, or fun times in the city. It isn’t the rural simplicity of her childhood, nor is it the stupefying city skyline of her adolescence. The Tradition was being with family, and it was her family that was able to “instill tradition in me”(New,