The Stern Family: How Can A Person Impact Others?

People often think of family as positive, loving, and with no flaws. However, there is almost a stereotype that all families love each other and there aren’t problems or challenges in a family. Sometimes families put people through challenges and some families aren’t “perfect”. In the book Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff, Jolly has two kids and goes through challenges with her family. Most careful readers can see how Jolly has these challenges with her kids and how she is far off from the “perfect” family. She goes through many of these challenges in life and finds a way to overcome them. Jollys family shapes her identity because the challenges she faces ends up making her stronger. Jeremy and Jilly challenging her, LaVaughn helping her out, and her past family all shape her identity.

It was 1937, and the Great Depression was almost over; unemployment was higher than ever. Many people were seeking jobs and in the novel, Of Mice and Men, Lennie Small was one of them. The author John Steinbeck’s portrayal of Lennie helps one understand what it is like to be mentally challenged. Steinbeck does this by highlighting Lennie’s strength, naiveness, and caring nature. Steinbeck succeeded in teaching the reader of the social aspect of being mentally challenged.

In John Steinbeck's East of Eden, two unique families collide with one another. The Hamilton’s and the Trasks are two families who live in the Salinas Valley; each experience different triumphs and hardships throughout the course of their life. The experiences of the two families is based on the world in the late 18th and early 19th century, however, the actions of many characters are very similar to human actions in the present. The Trask family in particular reveals many different parts of the human life.Throughout the story,. friendship, arrogance, depression, and love are four major themes that give an explanation for the development of the world in the past and the formation of the world in the present.

Families can mean a lot of different things to different people. For some family is everything, just knowing that someone is there for you during a personal crisis to help you and provide you with love is comforting. However, at the same time a family can be heartless and relentless providing you with no comfort, instead just pain and misery. We all can agree that families shape our development and how we view the world. From childhood our thoughts and actions are shaped based on experiences from a sibling or parent that went through them. However, the influence of a family could be positive or negative, whether it is showing us the right side or perhaps making the same mistakes. In literature many writers have been influenced by their families two great examples are “A Brother’s Murder” by Brent Staples and “My father’s Life” by Raymond Carver, both writers express in great detail how families have shaped and affected them as individuals.

Steinbeck has written ''Of Mice And Men '' about an adventure of George and Lennie trying to accomplish their American dream's during the Great Depression during the 1930's where thousands of people lost their jobs in the Wall Street Crash making them feel hopeless. George and Lennie come to work at a ranch near Soledad in California. There they meet fellow ranch mates and a woman called Curley's Wife. In this essay I will focus on how Curley's Wife's personality and actions change throughout the novella and who she affect her and other bunkmates throughout the novella. In addition to that I would be showing how Steinbeck creates tension by using Curleys Wife.

Some factors that could affect the development of the children in this family are that Frank is not thinking about his family member’s emotions to his actions or his decisions. The father may not desire to think about what his family would think about his decisions. This could affect the development of the family system because the family members could become disengaged with one another. The members could develop an emotional patterns that would lead each family member to have no desire in what each family member would think about other members of the family.

Sarah's father is an immigrant who holds Jewish traditions as the highest importance of life. The role of Sarah's father strikes her hard and creates an enormous hatred for him. Sarah has been Americanized and feels strongly that her father should be the provider for the family. Instead her father lives off the work of his four girls as they slave away to make ends meet. Sarah sees this as the main reason of why her family is in poverty and is in such pain. If her father would work then at least some of their misery would lesson. She appears to view her father as a leech, as worthless man, who has lives in the days of the past. "I can't respect a man who lives off the blood of his wife and children" (Bread Givers 130). Sarah appears to believe that his idea of family does not fit the American recipe for being successful and more important happy. America has a standard cultural, "nuclear family", of a providing man, a caring mother, and student children. Her apparent hatred for her father's preaching's reflects how she feels about her Jewish religion and traditions. This influences her enough to turn away from her upbringing for an attempt to better her self.

From each of these examples Steinbeck paints a picture of the faults in society. Through Curley’s wife, he shows her dream and how it was destroyed by the faults that society made by putting women under men. Through George, Steinbeck shows George’s optimism and how due to the Great Depression too much optimism was a fault society had. Lastly, again through George, he shows how bold and heroic it was to protect those weaker than yourself. He was pointing out the fault society had by putting those who were weak under themselves. Overall, Steinbeck used Modernism in this novel to teach us the faults in society and the consequences that can come from

Steinbeck has written ''Of Mice And Men '' about an adventure of George and Lennie trying to accomplish their American dream's during the Great Depression during the 1930's where thousands of people lost their jobs in the Wall Street Crash making them feel hopeless. George and Lennie come to work at a ranch near Soledad in California. There they meet fellow ranch mates and a woman called Curley's Wife. In this essay I will focus on how Curley's Wife's personality and actions change throughout the novella and who she affect her and other bunkmates throughout the novella. In addition to that I would be showing how Steinbeck creates tension by using Curleys Wife.

Starting from the exposition,the main character, Felix is searching for his mother and father to warn them that Nazis are burning books, so he leaves the orphanage that he once live. dedicated to find them. In the sixth chapter filix had saved a little girl from burning up from a fire. “I haul the unconscious girl up onto my back stagger through the smoke and sparks toward the fence”. This quote from the novel explains how people need other people to survive. “The way this shows people need other people to survive” is that is Felix would not have saved this little girl and would not have been their for she would have got killed, Tortured ,or worse. Another quote that expresses the theme that family aren’t just made of the people whom you

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty,” said Mother Teresa. Humanity has struggled against being left alone and being lonely for a long time. As a result, humans formed a society where they could be together. On the other hand, there are still people who are left out of the society. In other words, there are still people out there who are marginalized, not accepted fairly to the society. John Steinbeck shows the marginalized people’s lives in his novel, Of Mice and Men. In his novel, characters such as Lennie, George, Candy, Curley’s wife, Crooks, and even the ranch workers, are marginalized from the society. Ranch workers like George, Candy, and Lennie have nowhere to go, and they do not have anybody to care for them. Especially for Lennie, he is mentally challenged, too. Crooks, being the colored man, suffers from discrimination. Curley’s wife is constantly surrounded with loneliness. In Of Mice and Men, marginalized people who are neglected from the society, create a society of their own; they share their dreams and help each other out although they are all different from each other.

The world is a harsh place. This is shown in many places such as in Steinbeck’s novel Of Mice And Men which made the reader notice how prejudices and opinion are in a direct relationship. This relationship results in harsh opinions and most aggravated actions. Steinbeck uses diction, textual structure, and Simple Story Pieces such as Character Introduction as well as Setting and Character Details to deliver this message. The novel starts off with the introduction of Lennie and George as they enter on a green pond and start conversing on topics such as rabbits and lighter topics; This makes the characters seem more approachable and friendly, which is true for Curley’s introduction as a thin young man with a brown face, which is just as passive and light-hearted as the conversation between George and Lennie. The only factor that changes the opinion of the reader is the prejudice of the characters in the conversation after. Prejudices, Despite seeming harmless, obstruct our views of others.

It is Cyrus' sins and lies that divide the Trask family. Steinbeck illustrates the importance of the father in determining the dynamic of a family. One father passes along his love, while another passes along his

The last example that Steinbeck gives about the importance and unity of family is when one of the family members suffer the whole family suffers. They are basically a unit so when one of them feels something the rest do too. This is shown when Granpa dies they are all sad and they all feel down they are at a very low point here in the

Steinbeck views family as a central part of life. As one of the major topics in Grapes of Wrath, even the characters know its value, “She seemed to know that if she swayed the family shook, and if she ever really deeply wavered or despaired the family would fall, the family will to function would be gone” (Steinbeck 74). This is an example