The Child Who Was Born

“His mother gave birth to twelve children but four had died in childbirth or early infancy. Even with eight mouths to feed Grandma found it in her heart to adopt two

All of my grandparents were deceased by the time I was fourteen. I never knew my mother’s father because he died when she was young. His wife, Irene, played a crucial role in my early life. She would help my mom with feeding and other medical concerns when I was a premature child. Unfortunately, I only knew, and remember, “Meme” for a short time as she passed away when I was nine.

My family is composed of my father, mother, a younger sister, an older sister, who unfortunately passed away, and myself. I grew up being the oldest child, for my oldest sister passed away before I was born. Although, I never got to meet my older sister her absence has taught me to value the importance of family.

Family reunions are meant to bring people closer, but at times can do the exact opposite and drive each other further away. Some us enjoy the company of others, the food, and the laughter shared with one another. As where others decide to stick to themselves and just wait till it’s all over. In the Short stories, “Powder” written by Tobias Wolff and “Reunion” by John Cheever Our main characters both learn something about their fathers and themselves.

An example of how her family values each other is her description of the conventions and norms of her family. They are thoroughly supportive of one another, attending every graduation, baby shower, birthday, and house warming party. Her father and siblings have burial plots together so that they are never separated. Life is lived with everyone being connected and concerned for not only each person’s well-being, but happiness as well. She says her “relatives form an alliance that represents a genuine and enduring love of family…”

here we had a big family ,my aunt and her family, my uncle and his family, my grandfather and

In 1961 my father Everett Babcock and Lois Menken would marry and 10 months later in October they would give birth to my sister Kelly (1961-present), in April of 1965 I would be born. Although, we had our disagreements throughout our lives I would consider my immediate family as just a basic family there was not any mental illness or abuse. Although, on my father’s side of the family there is a history of suspected alcoholism, and both sides of the family there have been family members who contracted or died from

My CAP paper will focus on a series of nonnormative events that began with my father becoming ill one night, then his numerous hospitalization, the diagnoses of my father’s stomach cancer that in the end resulted in his death. Sadly, my family has not yet reached an equilibrium because it is still so recent and we are trying to cope with our loss. To start off my paper I will provide information on my family. We are a family of four with different personalities. My family consists of my mother, my father, my brother, and I.

As a young child, Nakeisha Pierce had a happy childhood. She was surrounded by a large family who lived very close to her in her small hometown Bogalusa, Louisiana. She did have to travel around quite a bit due to her father serving in the army, but they did not go with him overseas because her mother was in nursing school. Her favorite childhood memory is going to her grandmother's house and eating family dinner. Her grandmother’s ten children and their children were gathered in her ginormous house. This memory really stands out to her because she plans on one day having these family dinners with her kids and grandchildren, and hopes they enjoy and value it as much as

My grandfather Michael Davis grew up around both of his parents in separate homes. He had an abundant amount of brothers all of them from his dad. Mike was his mother’s only child.

A family consists of a couple key parts. First, the family plays an enormous role in one’s life by influencing the children. Due to the children

Extended make us who we are today. You might think extended family may not have an impact on a child’s life but they do. No matter if live in the same city or are scattered across the world. Sometimes your extended family members will always be there for you. Example my family is scattered across the world but if I ever need them they are only one phone call away. Even with my aunts living in another country, I can always call them if there is ever an emergency although they couldn’t physically be here the will always give me the words i’ll need to hear. No matter the distance family will always be there. That's not always the case some children may not know all their family members or some may be estranged. It doesn't matter if you know the or not because you will always want to know who they are and what they are like and it will always be a little piece of you

The stories of family member’s lives are important to document and share over the years. Their stories are a reminder of the history from different time periods. The family members I chose to talk about are people I either admire or wanted to learn more about. Here are their stories.

Stories told by a grandfather or an great aunt give a family its character, but no matter how much information you learn, there is always more; there are more adventures and more tragedy and more lessons. Hearing the stories of a relative’s experiences as a child, at high school, or how they raised their first child brings a family one step closer to that person and their family’s history. It is important to talk to family members and to record the stories of older relatives before they die and their stories die with them. The stories of the Coss-McDaniel family range from the humor of my dad being born in a bathtub to the tragedy of my Grandma Coss becoming paralyzed when my mother was only twelve.

Throughout this novel, the focus of family becomes very inattentive and mysterious. One family such as the Finches remained a whole, had each other’s back, but also had disagreements, as normal families would. This was the only common type family that tried to live under correct rules and laws as well as making sure each individual stayed under one household. As for the others, they seemed to be quite different. The Cunninghams were the country, poor family that never complained about a thing. The Ewells were the spoiled and selfish family that never seemed to do what was right. The Harris’s , Dill’s family from Mississippi, seemed to be careless and unprotected. Some of these groups of relatives relate back to the families in S.E Hinton’s book, “The Outsiders.”