Families come in all shapes and sizes. The dynamics range from an open, perfect, dream family, all the way to broken homes. The way people are treated, or are treated by their family affects the way they act throughout their lives. They grow up knowing only the ways that their families taught us, even if those things were wrong. They do not know any better, so of course they have to listen to them. In the book Bloodroot, Amy Greene tells the story of Myra Lamb’s family from different points of view, over four generations. She is a free-spirited girl who loves Bloodroot Mountain with all of her heart. Her Grandmother, Byrdie, wants to always protect her, but lets her do what she pleases. Once she meets John Odom, she gets caught up in the thrill …show more content…
Amy Greene shows how family has an immense impact on every stage of life in her book, Bloodroot. John Odom treats Myra well until they move into the house by the train tracks. John taking her off the mountain shows just how much he has held her down from the very beginning. Following the move, we see their relationship quickly plummet. On page 300, John “forced [Myra] over the table and Hollis shoved [her] dress over [her] hips,” after Myra went to the pool house looking for her other family members. He also locks her underneath their house for days on end. He continues to come home drunk and physically and emotionally abuse her. It is not understood why John does these things until his chapter. John shares how his mother used to hit him and his brother, and how his father used to beat his mother. Childhood trauma has a huge effect on how people act towards others. If they are treated poorly, they will most likely act poorly towards other people. This is because when growing up, family members are the only ones around all the time. Growing up, kids are used to the way their families treat them and do not know any other …show more content…
When John Odom came around, Byrdie was jealous. He was taking her away and she did not like it, but she still allowed Myra to do what she longed to do. While visiting Myra in the house by the train tracks, Byrdie “could tell Myra was scared to death of what [John] would do.” and asks her to come back to the mountain. Myra said no and Byrdie left it alone, even though she was worried. Byrdie always had Myra’s best interest at heart, but still allowed her to make her own mistakes. She welcomed her back when she finally returned. Byrdie and Myra’s relationship communicates how family will always be there, they will not ever leave because they love their family. Even if they do not deserve the love, there is always a special place for family in every person’s heart. Throughout the book, Johnny and Laura have a strong connection. On page 148, when Laura visits Johnny in jail, she says, “I been missing you so bad.” Typically, sisters do not tell their siblings when they miss them, but the fact that she admits it, conveys how much she misses him in his absence. Siblings are one of the most important relationships that anyone can
Bad blood is a book that was written James H. Jones who is an associate professor of History. The book narrates on how the government through the department of Public Health service (PHS) authorized and financed a program that did not protect human values and rights. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment which was conducted between 1932 and 1972 where four hundred illiterate and semi-illiterate black sharecroppers in Alabama recently diagnosed with syphilis were sampled for an experiment that was funded by the U.S Health Service to prove that the effect of untreated syphilis are different in blacks as opposed to whites. The blacks in Macon County, Alabama were turned into laboratory animals without their knowledge and the purpose of the experiment
Moving forward into chapter seventeen of Cormac McCarthy’s “Blood Meridian”, Glanton’s crew rode on as the Apaches they drank with held back, as they refused to ride through the night. The next night Glanton’s men made a fire and discussed what’s happened in their group, the members who’d been killed. Then brought up there possibly being life on other planets. The Judge immediately disagreed though and did a trick, as if that was being the proof to his point or something.
Blood on the River by Elisa Carbone is a historical novel that focuses on the uphill battle to build the first permanent English colony known as Jamestown. In order to survive the colonists had to find a way to trade with the Indians for recourses and battle against the common enemy, called death. Having a healthy, functioning society was by far the hardest thing to maintain.
Family is one of the most important things in people's lives. No matter how much love or hate one feels about them, their genes are still yours. There will always be a part of them that can influence and reside in you. The father in "Wordsmith" and Sam Sing in "The Gold Mountain Coat" are prime examples of how different families can be. The father is loving whereas Sam Sing is apathetic.
Just because people within a family are blood related and living together, it does not mean they are identical in their beliefs and actions. In some cases the generations of people in the family have the same way looking at things and understand the same sets of rules and believe in same kind of moral behavior. Unlike that, in the novel, “The Chrysalids”, the protagonist, David Strorm and his father, Joseph, the antagonist have very different characters and conflicting points of view.
Family plays a big role in most stories. In Cold Blood is no different, in the story family is able to shape the outcome of the characters in their younger years that will affect them later in life and the decisions that they will make. This will be shown by the Clutter family, Perry’s family, and dicks family, and the outcomes that this had on them.
Olivia Butler writes in the afterword of “Bloodchild” that it’s not a story of slavery, and evidence from close reading can be used to support this statement. Butler uses the human form as a vehicle for defamiliarization to show the mechanical functions readers serve themselves and others. Furthermore, this process is able to reveal their passive nature and ultimately highlight the human allowance for manipulation. She brings light to these behaviors by showing a lack of respect for human life, an unbalanced power relationship between the Tlic and the humans, and Gan’s stripped cognitive process.
A family either plays a positive role in one’s life leading to their success, or a negative role leading to failure. The love and concern from a family is very important in determining the prosperity in life of its members, and without this support, a person will only face adversity. In Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald, the Piper family, primarily the father, is responsible for the sorrowful life of the Piper daughters. The disappointment in life of Frances, Kathleen and Mercedes is due to lack of love and nurture, inadequate parenting and over protectiveness.
In “Up the Coulee,” Hamlin Garland depicts what occurs when Howard McLane is away for an extended period of time and begins to neglect his family. Howard’s family members are offended by the negligence. Although his neglect causes his brother, Grant McLane, to resent him, Garland shows that part of having a family is being able to put aside negative feelings in order to resolve problems with relatives. Garland demonstrates how years apart can affect family relationships, causing neglect, resentment, and eventually, reconciliation.
Sethe shows this love for her family throughout the novel even when her family is going through rough times. “She did not want children, she wanted me, just me, and she got me” (A Prayer for Owen Meany 2.3) John is talking about how even though his birth is unplanned his mom loves him utterly and the relationship that they have is one that John treasures and values. In the end of Beloved the ghost of Beloved
And choose wrong?” (P.98). From reading this, I feel that the community was able to control problems such as divorce, rape, teen pregnancy, and AIDS. They all are given a life that is predictable, orderly and painless. Mostly, they have no memory or experience. In reality, we learn from our mistakes to be better each day. Experience is the best teacher in the world; unless one goes through sorrow, he or she will never know how it feels. “Warmth, Jonas replied and happiness. And let me think. Family, that it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And something else I can’t get the word for it. Jonas hesitated; I certainly liked the memory, though. I couldn’t quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, The Giver told him the feeling that was so strong in the room is love” (P.125). Family in the novel is described as a group of people that have a unit or bond that they share each day together.
When one envisions gross violence, gore, and frankly terrifying stories, one author who repeatedly shows up as a highly well-established author is Cormac McCarthy. His gripping, minimalistic prose and an almost bluntly declarative tone perfectly balance the implicit and explicit, creating environments that enchant the reader. One of his most intense examples of this style was "Blood Meridian," a gripping tale set in the Wild West, where Cormac McCarthy's subliminal messages throughout the vivid violence, gore, and anarchy of the story delve into the critical psychological archetypes of Carl Jung and Eric Neumann to show facets of the minds of the characters that McCarthy hides in abstract speech. Furthermore, the author's specific imagery creates an environment that acts as the primary molding of the characters, bringing a method to their madness.
The movie Crimson Peak directed by Guillermo Del Toro and short story William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe have their plots set in the Victorian era. During the time, family status was distinct by classes. In the upper class, there was an overwhelming sense of boredom and the constant prodding to be proper and what the parents want with very little parent to child communication (Price). However, in both pieces, there is either spoiling or family violence happened that makes the children grow up in a dysfunction environment. Comparing Crimson Peak and William Wilson together, it is conveyed that family has an important influence on who the protagonists become, not only on their behavior to people,
When people think of the word families they think love, safety, comfort, and loyalty. But, for some people its not always like that, families go through divorce, people leave for no reason or explanation or death may occur. In the novel The Porcupine of Truth by Bill Koingsberg tells a story about a boy named Cason Smith who comes from a “broken family”. His mother that left his father for being alcoholic when he was only 3 years old is now returning back to Billings, Montana to take care of his dying father who has cirrhosis. Throughout the story, Carson meets a girl named Aisha who also has some family issues, her dad who is very religious kicked her out of her house for being a lesbian.
Family is something unique to everyone, people in the same family may even have a different interpretation of what it is. The same way no two people have the same fingerprints equates to the number of feasible ways to define what family means to an individual. Even though Chopin’s “Beyond the Bayou” and Bradbury’s “The Last Night of the World” stories have critical similarities while revolving around the same theme of family, they both depict family values, reactions to difficult circumstances, and display reactions to events that impact those closest to a family. Dictionary.com emphasizes that a family value is “the moral and ethical principle traditionally upheld and transmitted within a family (Random House, Inc.).” In “Beyond the Bayou” Jacqueline is not established as a direct family member, but she is shown to have a close relationship with