Family. The one thing everyone has. There is family specialists, books on how to raise a good a family, and those people who all they want to know about is what is happening in another’s family, family, family, family, it’s like America’s obsession. Every family has a specific structure and function, but what makes up a good one? I don’t believe any family is perfect. For example, my parents got divorced when I was at the age of six, what’s so perfect about that? Although, the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the play A Raisin in the Sun, and the documentary American Denial, all teach readers and listeners insights about family.
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characters reveal to us what family is to them. Society envisions …show more content…
The character, Walter, has the idea family makes sacrifices for family. When a member of the family is not making these sacrifices in return it could be aggravating. Aggravated with his sister, Beneatha, Water states, “I don’t want nothing but for you to stop acting holy ‘round here. Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you – why can’t you do something for the family?” (1.1.118). Why is it so hard to give something up for family? Do we not realize all they have given us? Walter shows us that a part of being in a family is sometimes acting selfless. Personal needs cannot always be put before loved ones. Within families there is sacrifices, along with struggles. Family loves each other no matter what right, never grows old? Well, Walter and his wife, Ruth, are married with one child. This family has the typical structure, but is that all a good family needs? This idea is evident when Walter is arguing with his wife, he exclaims, “You tired, ain’t you? Tired of everything. Me, the boy, the way we live – this beat-up hole – everything. Ain’t you? (She doesn’t look up, doesn’t answer) So tired – moaning and groaning all the time, but you wouldn’t do nothing to help, would you? You couldn’t be on my side that long for nothing, could you?” (1.1.73). Love is tired. Love isn’t
In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the characters reveal to us what family is to them. Society envisions …show more content…
The character, Walter, has the idea family makes sacrifices for family. When a member of the family is not making these sacrifices in return it could be aggravating. Aggravated with his sister, Beneatha, Water states, “I don’t want nothing but for you to stop acting holy ‘round here. Me and Ruth done made some sacrifices for you – why can’t you do something for the family?” (1.1.118). Why is it so hard to give something up for family? Do we not realize all they have given us? Walter shows us that a part of being in a family is sometimes acting selfless. Personal needs cannot always be put before loved ones. Within families there is sacrifices, along with struggles. Family loves each other no matter what right, never grows old? Well, Walter and his wife, Ruth, are married with one child. This family has the typical structure, but is that all a good family needs? This idea is evident when Walter is arguing with his wife, he exclaims, “You tired, ain’t you? Tired of everything. Me, the boy, the way we live – this beat-up hole – everything. Ain’t you? (She doesn’t look up, doesn’t answer) So tired – moaning and groaning all the time, but you wouldn’t do nothing to help, would you? You couldn’t be on my side that long for nothing, could you?” (1.1.73). Love is tired. Love isn’t