Love, Family, And Identity

Families, as units, are extremely complex and vary drastically from one another. A person might be under the impression that his or her own family is nothing special, especially if they are accustomed to their family’s routines. After analyzing my own family through the sociological lenses of an assortment of scholars, it is now clear that it is not as simple as it seems. Sociologically analyzing my family through the divorces that have occurred in my life makes it clear that divorce can have an impact on a variety of family dynamics, such as my parents and their jobs and domestic duties, the amount of involvement they have with their friends and family, as well as my financial dependence on my parents.

What important changes in family patterns do you see today? Today I see family patterns change in many perspectives ways. Families are more independent. They form their own opinions in their decision making. Do you see positive changes, negative changes, or both? I would have to say that I see both positive and negative changes in families. The positive that I see is that many husbands are more involved with their children and even some are now stay home dads taking care of the children while women go to work, the negative that I see is that there are many people filing for divorce and children being raised by single parents. What do they mean for families, in your opinion? My opinion is that most people are

She became accustomed to the perception of a desert being portrayed as dull and lifeless (Being raised in Kentucky) until this trip. Throughout this scene, she expresses her fascination for nature, and uses a tone of awe and allurement while describing the attributes about the land with metaphors. This narration occurred following the first rainfall, when Mattie and Taylor decided to go to the desert. This passage which is distinctive of Kingsolver’s portrayal of the natural landscape shows her sudden awareness diverse atmospheres. By linking to the scenery to “the palm of a human hand”, the author uses the literary device of personification with the mountains and the town. Her phrase “resting in its cradle of mountains” associates the basin to a child, and the phrases “city like a palm”and“life lines and heart lines hints a grown-up. The terrain exemplifies a life from the beginning to end. Taylor describes the land my linking each attribute with lots of metaphors, which then confirms that the tone is “wonder and allurement” because it demonstrates that she is emotionally connected to the

However, setting is essential to pay attention to because it creates the message of the story; this is done by describing the geographic location, time, surroundings, and small details that help the reader have a better comprehension of the literature. For example, the protagonist mentions the uncomfortable and difficult situations they must endure due to the extremely dry climate. The quote, “Outside, the water has been sucked from everything. The veins in the leaves are hollow, the ditch grass is crackling. The sky has absorbed every drop. It’s a thin whitish-blue veil stretched from end to end over us, a flat gauze tarp,” helps to describe the setting (Erdrich). The setting is presented in the beginning of the story as one of the hottest days of June and takes place in the town of Argus, Dakota. The lack of rain creates concerns about the growth and prosperity of vegetation in the

Lisa page asserts that what truly defines an American is the way they are involved in their community. According to “High Yellow White Trash”, Lisa Page whose parents are divorced feels like she lives in two worlds because of the environment she is in when she is with each parent. But yet she feels very connected to both communities even if they are very different. On her mother's side,who is white, she mentions “ She[her mother] sent me to ballet classes, and my sister took horseback riding lessons, much like our white neighborhood.”(p3) In the other word, Lisa was educated by her mother side culture and involved in the white community. However,she was a biracial women, due to her skin color, she was being considered as a white with defects by the white community that made her starting struggles in this two worlds. What is more,she referred herself as a black too.

Characterization is the strength of Love Medicine. The humorous, but tragic, exploits of eccentric characters are extremely vivid in her story, and force a constant chnage of viewpoint for the reader as more aspects of characters are revealed. The characters in this novel are a woven pattern of intricacy possibly far surpassing the reader's ability, and especially surpassing the characters themselves. This may be by design, as those things unresolved and disjointed by the end of the story can promote an incomplete and unsettled set of emotions

Paul Fisher describes the Tangerine County as “a place carpeted with green grass, with trees along both sides of the road and flower beds running down the middle of a median strip. We could see the roofs of big expensive houses peeking up over the landscaping” (9). Although things on the surface look great in Tangerine County, they’re falling apart underneath. Outside the housing development, a muck fire burns underground (16). In a middle school, a sinkhole opens (80), and mosquitoes torture the neighborhoods (161).

“There were orchards, heavy leafed in their prime, and vineyards with the long green crawlers carpeting the ground between the rows. There were melon patches and grain fields. White houses stood in the greenery, roses growing over them. And the sun was gold and warm.

The scenery as I now recall, looks as if it had came out of the beginning of The Grapes of Wrath. Civilization here felt in a way left behind compared back home. (Leave behind all wifi powered technology, because you aren't going to be getting a signal here.)

A) I believe that the phrases “the dry September of the dirt roads,” “grassless yards of the shanty-town,” and “a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust” contribute to the atmosphere by revealing specific details of the setting. When the author uses the phrases “the dry September of the dirt roads,” and “sunny yellow against the dust,” it portrays the setting as dry and dusty. This is further supported by the phrase “grassless yards,” which allows the reader to picture the landscape as bare, dry ground. The term “shanty-town” means an area consisting of a large amount of roughly made houses.

Family is a single word that has many different meanings and definitions. In a short definition we can say family is a group of people that are consist of parents, children, grandparents that are living together in a household. In other word we can say family can be defined in several ways depending on each person what he or she are experiencing in her or his life from their family. If we look at the poem written by Linda Hogan and the poem written by Robert Hayden, we will see different definitions for family depending on their background and where they grew up. People have different understanding about what the family means. Its mean ’ we must accept our parents and we must feel a shamed and understand what love and sacrifices they gave us when we were children and be aware the family could be not just bound by blood.

He describes it in such detail because he wants to describe the setting in a way that appeals to the reader. Opinions may vary, but when I read the first page I automatically thought of a place abundant in greenery and animals. Maybe even a forest with a running river. But then later on in the book he describes the setting in a very opposite manner.

The writer uses the setting to help paint a vivid picture for the reader of a suburban or rural place that is by which the narrator explains, is not well kept. The environment is personified in the first four (4) lines of the poem as the narrator represents the road as having the qualities

If we talk about Christianity point of view Holy bible lays down “Wives submit yourself into your own husbands as unto the Lord.”

What is a family? What parts make up a family? These two questions are questions that millions of adults and children ask themselves regularly. When people think about a family in their head they think of a nuclear family. Where you have a Mom, Dad, and a few kids running around a home in the middle of a suburban wasteland. That is the nuclear family that I feel most modern families strive to be like. But factors can change within a family and still be a family. I do not believe that a family is strictly based off what people see from the front porch looking in. A family is about the everlasting bond that is formed between a group of people whether they are related by blood or by other means. A family is a group of people who stick together during hard times and good times, they laugh together and they cry together. They eat meals together, party together, are weaved together in life. They are like a strip of palm leaves, and when you weave a bunch of them together it makes a basket, that is a family. The people that someone can call at two in the morning on a Wednesday just because they can’t sleep. The ones who would sacrifice anything to help them. The bond can never be broken because the word “family” holds them together like glue to wallpaper.