The Importance Of Family In The Outsiders By S. E. Hinton

In addition to his loving home life, Joe also experiences the dark side of toxic and abusive families. Family is the group of people closest to the individual. This can be beneficial if the family members harmonize, but it can also foster abuse if the family members do not respect each other. One example of this is how Linda’s mother acts when Linda is born. Mrs. Lark saves Linden, Linda’s twin brother, but the doctor “ask[s] if he should use extraordinary means to salvage it [Linda], the answer was no. No, let it die” (115). Linda’s mother disregards Linda’s rights as a human and her place as a daughter in the family. This scars Linda for life and ruins any chance of Linda and mother building a healthy relationship in the future. When Linda tells him her story, Joe realizes that he

I believe family is such an important part in this family’s life because they are all that each other has got. They hold close to their family because they have been through so much and they see death all around them, so they see the importance of their family. They also are taught from a very young age to respect their elders in the family because they have seen much more and know much more about all aspects of life. They are viewed as wise and knowledgeable and the young family members cherish the opportunity to learn from them. In the movie Gran Torino one

Everyone's experiences with it are different, some are favourable, and some are fallacious. Everyone has it, but no one’s family is synonymous. Family is strong and sacrosanct, but strange. The understanding of family varies between people and their personal experiences. In the play Only Drunks and Children Tell The Truth(ODACTTT) by Drew Hayden Taylor, one sees family defined in several legitimate but different ways.

On page ____, it states that when the church fire was happening Ponyboy and Dally told Johnny to get out of the fire. A piece of the roof was about to fall on him, then they had to go to the hospital because Johnny almost burned in the fire so they went to the hospital to visit Johnny. Johnny told Ponyboy to stay gold. When Ponyboy and Dally tried to save him from getting burned they had to rush to the hospital because he got hurt.

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…”

When Pony and Johnny are talking while in hiding, Johny reveals a story that he describes Dally has a very caring person. " Yeah... in the manners bit, and the charm, too, I guess," Johnny said slowly, "but one night I saw Dally gettin' picked up by the fuzz, and he kept real cool and calm the whole time. They was gettin' him for breakin' out the windows in the school building, and it was Two-Bit who did that. And Dally knew it.

Family support is essential to have a good life. When Dally, Pony, and Johnny were at the Dairy Queen Johnny asked Dally. “‘My parents’ Johnny repeated doggedly, ‘did they ask about me?’ ‘No,’ snapped Dally… Johnny didn’t say anything. But he stared at the dashboard with such hurt bewilderment

We assume that our family members care about each other and wants nothing but the best for us, because they are the closes people in our lives. In some cases, this is not always true. Simply because they share the same blood, does not mean they are necessarily in your camp. In the novel, A Patchwork Planet, through Barnaby’s relationship with his family, with the members of Rent-A-Back and with Martine and Pop-Pop, Anne Tyler suggest that people who have your best interest at heart manifest their care through action.

Today and back during Sanora Babb’s time, families continuously show reliance with each other. An example of this in the novel is when “we woke Papa and gave him a bowl of hot water and cayenne pepper with five minnows.” (Babb 198) When everyone was starving Sanora and Marcy had to go out to the small river to catch food for everyone, this shows how even though they were extremely weak they had done as much as they could because they knew their family was depending on them. Even today families do rely on each other, but not to that extent, but usually if a family member needs help than their siblings or parents will do what they can to help. Another characteristic that is still found in families is love and caring for each other.

In times of hardship, it is Ma who does everything in her power to keep the family together. Ma tells her family that “‘[it] ain’t good for folks to break up’” (Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 180). It is within Ma’s core to protect this family and everything about it as she is the one who keeps it together. She knows that if she were to falter or fail in any sense, then “the family would fall [and] the family will to function would be gone” (Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 64).

Dally eventually comes and visits the boys, who are both convinced that they should return home. Dally submits and takes both of the boys out to eat; when they return to the abandoned church, they find it has been set on fire and a bunch of school children are trapped inside. Ponyboy, Johnny, and Dallas all rush in to save the kids, resulting in Ponyboy being knocked out. When he wakes up, Ponyboy is in the hospital along with Dally and Johnny. He finds out that everybody is all right, except for Johnny, who is in critical condition. After he and Dally are released from the hospital and win victory in a rumble with the Socials, they return to the hospital to dolefully find that Johnny has passed away. Dally darts out of the hospital in a fit of rage and is later shot by the police after being caught robbing a grocery store. Ponyboy is devastated, and soon begins to lose his mind until his English teacher assigns the class to write an essay about something meaningful. Ponyboy decides to write about the events that recently happened to him in hopes that it could make a

”{Hinton chapter 12} make me believe that it is family because that shows how they protect each other like family. The quote also shows some dialogue and . S.E Hinton uses descriptive language in “The Outsiders” for the theme Family.

Ponyboy Jonny and Dally saw that and fastly run into the church to save the four children. “I didn’t pay any attention, although pieces of the old roof were crashing down too close for comfort. I snatched up another kid hoping he didn’t bite and dropped him with out waiting to

The concept of a family in today’s society, is often misunderstood. Some people see family as the people they live with, while others see it as blood relatives. The google definition of a family is “a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household.”, but today this is not always the case. Family is simply a group of people, or individuals that have a common bond and love and support each other, whether they are related by blood or not.

Many characters have different views of what family is used for. Although they all agree that family is for loving and caring about each other they also view family in alternate ways. For example Bella views her family as her guardian of Grandma. Bella shows this view throughout the play one time being when she learns that Eddie is going to have to leave. She begs Eddie not to go and to “stay and live” with them because Grandma is “so mean sometimes.” This proves that she