Family can be the strongest relationship, bond or connection you can have, but it only takes one person to break the unity. In the novel, Lullabies For Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill and the memoir The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr they all show that one’s negative actions can severely impact the rest of the family, even if it is not deliberate. One’s bad behaviour can separate them and their family from society. Their uncontrollable actions can tear their families apart. In addition to that, one’s own actions can strongly influence the next generation. As one’s actions can unintentionally impact the rest of the family. First and foremost, one’s negative behaviour can isolate them and their family from the outside world. In the novel Lullabies
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Afterward, I heard a girl say, ‘She’s so stupid, she doesn't even know what a period is.’” (O’Neill 101). Baby is strongly affected by Jules’s negative behaviour and she is not recognized by who she is. After the constant insults that Baby gets from her classmates, she decides to isolate herself from everyone in the school since no one accepts her anyways: “I didn’t feel like being friends with anyone at school. It was just too hard” (O’Neill 102). The root of Baby’s problem is Jules’s negative reputation and behaviour which causes Baby to not fit in with her classmates and later isolates herself from her classmates. Similarity, in the memoir The Liar’s Club the main character Mary Karr and the rest of her family is separated from the community because of Mary’s father, J.P. Karr’s bad reputation and actions. J.P. is full of violence on some days and he will choose to take out his anger on the people in his community: “Some days he was just spring-loaded on having a fight. For instance, once when we were standing in line to pay the gas bill, he socked a young Coca-cola diver for saying we shouldn’t be in Vietnam” (Karr 40). J.P. scares …show more content…
In Lullabies For Little Criminal, after Jules comes back from rehabilitation from doing heroin, he becomes a hysterical, violent person and acts much differently from before. Baby believes that Jules is obtaining some sort of side effects from the drugs that is used on Jules while he is in rehabilitation. Jules will sometimes imagine Baby doing bad things like drugs and starts filling up with anger. Other times he will become violent and break things with no good reason, but he will somehow sum everything and blame it on Baby. He is not in control of himself and not conscious of his problems. Jules’s out of control actions divides him and Baby. For instance, one day when Baby goes out to buy the groceries, Jules goes to Baby’s room, knocks over all her things and tears apart her rag doll. When Baby comes back she is devastated about Jules’s actions: “There, lying on the floor was my rag doll, its arms and legs ripped off. I dropped to my knees and picked her pieces up...That rag doll had been like a miracle to me. It had reminded me that I’d been loved by a mother. Now I was nothing, a real nobody” (O’Neill 119). Baby is really hurt by Jules’s actions as the rag doll is the most and only and meaningful thing that she has. The rag doll is believed to be given by Baby’s mother. Baby has never has seen her as she died not long after Baby is borned. The rag doll contains Baby’s dreams, imagination about her
Afterward, I heard a girl say, ‘She’s so stupid, she doesn't even know what a period is.’” (O’Neill 101). Baby is strongly affected by Jules’s negative behaviour and she is not recognized by who she is. After the constant insults that Baby gets from her classmates, she decides to isolate herself from everyone in the school since no one accepts her anyways: “I didn’t feel like being friends with anyone at school. It was just too hard” (O’Neill 102). The root of Baby’s problem is Jules’s negative reputation and behaviour which causes Baby to not fit in with her classmates and later isolates herself from her classmates. Similarity, in the memoir The Liar’s Club the main character Mary Karr and the rest of her family is separated from the community because of Mary’s father, J.P. Karr’s bad reputation and actions. J.P. is full of violence on some days and he will choose to take out his anger on the people in his community: “Some days he was just spring-loaded on having a fight. For instance, once when we were standing in line to pay the gas bill, he socked a young Coca-cola diver for saying we shouldn’t be in Vietnam” (Karr 40). J.P. scares …show more content…
In Lullabies For Little Criminal, after Jules comes back from rehabilitation from doing heroin, he becomes a hysterical, violent person and acts much differently from before. Baby believes that Jules is obtaining some sort of side effects from the drugs that is used on Jules while he is in rehabilitation. Jules will sometimes imagine Baby doing bad things like drugs and starts filling up with anger. Other times he will become violent and break things with no good reason, but he will somehow sum everything and blame it on Baby. He is not in control of himself and not conscious of his problems. Jules’s out of control actions divides him and Baby. For instance, one day when Baby goes out to buy the groceries, Jules goes to Baby’s room, knocks over all her things and tears apart her rag doll. When Baby comes back she is devastated about Jules’s actions: “There, lying on the floor was my rag doll, its arms and legs ripped off. I dropped to my knees and picked her pieces up...That rag doll had been like a miracle to me. It had reminded me that I’d been loved by a mother. Now I was nothing, a real nobody” (O’Neill 119). Baby is really hurt by Jules’s actions as the rag doll is the most and only and meaningful thing that she has. The rag doll is believed to be given by Baby’s mother. Baby has never has seen her as she died not long after Baby is borned. The rag doll contains Baby’s dreams, imagination about her