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For such a small word, “Family,” can mean so much. In a dictionary one may read family as people with common ancestors, but a true family is people who stick together and support one another at any cost. Both books, Night by Elie Wiesel, and, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand display the theme of family relationships throughout the story.

Family; a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. When around a certain group of people you can start mimicking their own habits, therefore you take multiple traits from your family as you age. Family is not something people should take for granted. It shapes identities and ways of life. In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the Smiths and the Clutters show opposite ends of the spectrum according to how they tend to live out their lives. The two families have different backgrounds that lead them to live contrasting lifestyles, which warrants various outcomes of themselves in the future.

What does the word family mean to you? In my opinion, family means everything to me. It’s the people I knew since I was born, who I know I can turn to anytime needed. Everyone has their own definition of family, it can be positive, negative, or even both. In the world’s society everyone is born into a family, it can be a traditional, a un-blood related, or an extended family. No matter how well a family relationship can be there is no such thing as a perfect family. In many classic pieces of literature, many writers’ use themes of conflict between the children and their parents. It can be conflicts towards each other or conflicts the family experiences together. In many well know novels, many characters from tragic events of abuse, cruelty, and negligent events kept their courage to survive through terrible events. The story of “Ellen Foster” Kaye Gibbons takes a reader inside a story of young orphaned girl, who is passed down to every family until the she is able to find the perfect one she fit into. In the classic novel “Night” author Elie Wiesel writes a historical piece about a young boy’s experience in a concentration camp. Losing half of his family the young boy Eliezer has to fight with his father through suffering tactics from the Nazis. The classic play “Romeo and Juliet”, William Shakespeare writes a tragic piece about two young lovers being forced to disobey family orders to be with each other. In all three pieces of literature, the characters struggle

In the novel The Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver, there is a girl named missy who lived in Kentucky with her mom. Missy leaves her mom to get a new life somewhere else. She also changes her name to Taylor on her journey. While on her journey she got handed a child from a stranger. She takes the child and continues Taylor's journey. Taylor finds a whole bunch of friends on her journey. This novel makes you ask to rethink your definition of “family” because on Taylor’s journey she meets a lot of friends that start to become family to her. Also when Taylor received Turtle, she started to make a family with Turtle without even knowing her. All of Taylor’s friends treated each other and helped each other just like they were family. That is how this

What’s the meaning of family? According to Merriam-Webster dictionary family is defined as “all the descendants of common ancestor”, but is that how do you define family? Have you ever had someone in your life outside of your family that you were able to confide in? Share your happiness and saddest moments with? Be your biggest advocate? If the answer is yes, then these people are considered family as well. Channeling personal experiences I’m able to relate to Cecile Gilmer’s believe that “Families are not only blood relatives but sometimes just people who show up and love you when no one else will.”

A family consists of a group of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected roles. (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014, p. 150)

According to the dictionary family is a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. Or family is from the descendants of a common ancestor. According to society family is a group, it can be related are not. My definition of family is anyone who is there for you through good and bad, someone who always have your back no matter what. Family is not just blood. However some of the best families are the ones you are not related to.

A family is seen as a group of people who are biologically or psychologically related. They connect on historical, emotional

Using the scientific explanation, everyone in this world was given birth by a man and a woman. The man and the woman are his/her father and mother. They are blood related to the person. They are the first people in touch with the person. They live together and they usually accompany the person until they die. They are the person’s family. Hassan, Liz and the Eric C. Wat define family as people who will always love each other and the sense of belonging as the feeling to be loved by their family in Lady C!” by Kwame Stephens, “A Sense of Loss” by Becky Birtha and “Blood, Thick, and Thin” by Eric C.

When one talks about their family, they can be describing any number of things: a biological family, a close-knit friend group, or even a romantic relationship that feels homely. No matter the definition, a family is typically a group of people with genuine love, care, and respect for one another, in the hopes of never harming another family member. However, in literature, it is not uncommon to have a variation from that standard definition. In The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, characters get cheated out of money and are driven to depression by their fellow family members. Tennessee Williams’ novel Cat on a Hot Tin Roof depicts a family that cannot stand one another, as it is filled with failing marriages and miserable relationships between siblings. Lastly, in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a child gets murdered by their own mother. Although these works of literature are vastly different, they all a family which is set apart from society, leading to familial tensions and conflicts; this causes readers to contemplate how that affects the storyline.

When people live in these communities they all try to stay as connected as they can. These people become so close to a point where they consider each other family. In the essay "Beliefs About Families" by Mary Pipher, she writes, "For many people, friends become family" (388). What Mary Pipher means by this quote is that not all families are blood-related. Friends could also be family. In different circumstances, some people consider someone family when that person has been there for him or her. Mary Pipher adds, "Others simply prefer a community or friends to their biological families" (389). When people go through struggles together they become closer. They feel a type of connection because of something they both

The word “family” has plenty of different meanings. People have many ways of describing what a family is and what family means to them. Family is no longer limited to the definition of “blood” relatives but more so the group of people that provide you with unconditional love and support. The common family usually consists of a mother, father, and their children. In “A Death in the Family,’ the Follet family is exactly that until a tragic event comes upon the family. Not only is the novel about a death in the family, but the experience of life and the meaning of family.

As someone who did not grow up with a typical family, I claim most of my close friends as “family” members. Every year we get together for birthdays, vacations and celebrate some holidays together. Some of my close friends are even closer than my actual family. One friend that I grew up with since the 7th grade is practically a brother to me, and even though I have and love my own mom, to this day I call his mother “mom” as well. I do believe that family is based on bonds and emotional ties, not just by blood and marriage. Our textbook defines “fictive kin as close relations with people we consider ‘like family’ but who are not related to us by blood or marriage (p.352)”. This sociological concept helps me realize that my own situation of who and what I consider family is more common than I may have thought before.

When I hear the word family, I think of people who are are blood related, the people you live with, and the people you see all the time. They provide for you and embarrass you. People are also family, even if they aren’t blood related, but are there for you no matter what and they mean everything to you. Family is always by your side when you need them. People hear family and think about parents, I hear family and think about my parents, aunts, cousins, friends, and my karate family. They are all so important to me and I don’t know what I would do without them. On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet displayed family in an interesting way. When Juliet said she didn’t want to marry Paris, her mother said she would disown her if she didn’t do

Family means many things to different people, yet the word itself can bring about a host of emotions from anyone who hears the word uttered. As a child growing up in the 60s and 70s the family dynamic was defined by the people we grew up with were related to by blood, and extended to the many family members of the different generations that made up the family unit.