The Whole Family

least a week, since I was four years old. It is a place of tradition for my family because my mother vacationed there for the first time when she was four years old, too. I have come to love this place, not because it’s some epic fantasy vacation, but more because of what it represents to me. Mexico Beach is a place where each summer, for more than half of my life, I have spent every waking moment enjoying real quality family time. To this day, I enjoy going there with my mom, even though our…

the middle chapters of When an Emperor Was Divine, it showcases the struggles all families went through when realizing where they will be living until the end of the war. Otsuka highlights the hardships the characters go to through inside and outside of the internment camp, reminding us of the struggles Japanese Americans went through during WWII to overcome the public's trepidation. As the girl and her family are on their journey to the internment camp, she is still able to see what's…

A family either has the ability to be happy or to not be happy. Happiness, whether granted or earned, should be sought within family, not money or elsewhere. Dependence on practical and emotional support ordinarily lands upon family. It provides a state of comfort that leads to happiness. Reminiscing through the plethora of memories a family has built together also provides the same well-being. The state of comfort and dependency is what connects a family to happiness. The classic,…

Conflicts are something we run into every day, and some are more troubling than others. I feel that your parents and family members play a huge role in how you deal with conflict. Your parents are the ones who teach you to walk, talk, and everything else we must learn to do in life. I feel that all of my habitual ways of dealing with conflict come from my family members. I learned that both my mother and father handle conflicts in different ways. They both try to avoid conflicts, and I do the…

stay with our family. Throughout my whole academic career this is the most heart wrenching and emotional letter I have ever wrote. My father has been one of the most inspirational and loving people I have ever met. It breaks my heart everyday to think he could possibly be taken away from us and it breaks my heart even more knowing he lives in fear of it. There has never been a point in time of my life where he has not been there for me or my little brother Jakub. He dedicates his whole life to…

Hansberry A Raisin in The Sun drama of her time discovers the racial issues , family values , poverty, class differences, identity ,and gender roles. As an activist Hansberry focused mainly on being a black among white community and their struggle to survive. The play is about the different dreams of members of a poor black family living in the south side Chicago, through the process of achieving their dreams we also look at the family roles and values. The play reflects the personal life of…

decides to visit her family, on her summer break from college. When she arrives at the familiar home she grew up in; she begins to judge it. She also begins to downgrade her family, she brags on how her life is going. She does not show any emotions that she misses her family. When Dee visits her family she leads her mother to believe Maggie is the stronger sister, Dee is responsible for the house fire, and she needs to protect Maggie from Dee’s bullying. When Dee visits her family she leads her…

Her family is mysteriously poisoned at a family dinner, but Mary, her sister Constance, and their Uncle Julian lives are spared. This book belongs in the gothic unit of the English curriculum because it features gothic elements such as isolation, family secrets, and death. The whole Blackwood family is isolated from the rest of society. Constance and Uncle Julian never leave their home. Constance isolates herself from the outside world because she is put on trial for the murder of her family,…

place in 1963 in Flint Michigan. This book is about a family who travel to Birmingham, Alabama. The reason that this family is traveling to Birmingham, Alabama is because there son named Bryon is in their words “being a delinquent’. So that was Bryon’s punishment, to go to Birmingham Alabama with their Granma Sands, the reason that that was his punishment was because that Gramma Sands was very strict. So the whole family had took their whole summer to go visit Gramma Sands, also for a…

tale of young Sartoris, a young illiterate boy with a deep sense of familial ties and the ability to distinguish right from wrong at a young age. Sartoris’ (Sarty) family has a deep devotion and loyalty to defending their father, Abner from any crimes he’ll commit, but most famously for barn burning. Sarty is the youngest in his family with his father, brother, his two sisters, mother and aunt all looming over him and influencing him. Sarty is very impressionable, inarticulate, and even…