The Importance Of Family

In life, the moment we grow up is the day we start to visualize the future. Questions like, “How will I maintain this job?” “How will I begin a family?” “When will people start to recognize me for my talents?” “Will I ever fulfill my dream?” start to arise. Also, many other questions are being asked all the time, but since we are all different, everyone’s life questions are not the same. Matter fact, the easiest answer to our life questions are the lessons we learned at home and the lessons we were taught as kids. Therefore as kids, we learn all of these unique different lessons from our parents or family in general. Dedicated and responsible parents or members of the family know that children are the future. A family’s job and presence is to provide children with a feeling of belonging and creativity of their identity. Families should be a source of emotional support, comfort, protection, and etc. The relationships we create and mend creates our future self mentally and emotionally. Love is a strong word that cause us to either become strong or weak as an individual. Love comes and goes, but we start to realize that only unconditional love we really need is the love from our family. A family’s love is what causes us to grow into the person we should become. The theme of family is presented in a way to build the character’s charisma and how much support becomes a lifeline.
Persepolis: The story of a childhood written by Marjane Satrapi is a brilliant piece of work. Marjane Satrapi, the main character and narrator, wrote her memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic and the second Iran and Iraq war. In 1979 and 1980, we learn that Marjane is begins to attend a non- religious school where both genders were allowed and the obl...

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...in a water cell he became weak and died. Marjane was a smart child and knew that what her grandpa went through was cruel. Her knowledge and determination comes from her grandfather. He never stooped as low as others and was always determined to get out any situation. Marjane’s Uncle Anoosh had come to stay with her for a while and he let her know that, “It is important that you know. Our family memory must not be lost.” A family memories are what encourages to be do better or be better than our ancestors. Uncle Anoosh told her about all the events he went through in life and prison. These moment were happy, but yet some were difficult to relive. He wanted to share these stories with Marji to teach her about the world, and to make sure she does not make the same mistakes as he and other ancestors did. The key to life is to always be better than the generation before.