2. In the story the good earth, the part were O-Lan gives birth and then goes back out to work on the land shows …show more content…
Kent even though he is not blood related he is part of the family and when the king decides to become a poor man for decide Kent helps and supports his decision. Also in the story support is shown when the two sisters support each other because they both think their father is going crazy and should be out of their way. In this story Kent shows us the aspect of family always by your side because he had been by the king’s side and even though he got banished he changed the way he looked and talked so that once again he was by the king’s side till death. Even though the king banished Cordelia when she saw her father and forgave him and got rid of his bitterness this showed that Cordelia never stopped loving her father and that shows that in families even in hard ships you will always love each …show more content…
In this story they support each other in many weird ways like when Cash broke his leg they all supported each other that they needed to go to the doctor. It is also shown in this story that they love each other no matter what because when the family finds out that Daral burns down Gillespies barn and is arrested at their mother’s grave they all love him even though he made a mistake. Family can help you achieve goals is shown in the story As I lay dying because their mother asked to be buried in Jefferson and their father Anse wouldn’t let anything like the river being too high or stopping to long and the family supported their father in achieving his goal to get his wife buried where she asked him to bury her. This family made each other crazy but along the way they kind of learned to get along but they also started to support each other like why Jewel was so attached to that horse of his or why Dewey Dell wanted to get rid of the baby we see a change from this family from the beginning of the story to the end. So in this book As I Lay Dying it shows how the family loves and cares about each other like when Vardaman said he missed his mother Daral took him and had him lay against the coffin and said can you hear her and this just shows that Daral cared and loved Vardaman and wanted him to be happy