Town Family Members Essay

Growing up in a small town can lead to one having a very narrow-minded attitude. In a place where almost everyone is the same skin-color, has the same socioeconomic status, and follows the same way of thinking, anyone who fails to conform to the standard can be viewed as an outcast, subject to judgment from those who are looking in. I was someone who fell into this trap. I looked down upon people who were different from me, people who had vastly different ideas, dressed differently, or never tried to perform well in school. I failed to understand or welcome the distinctions between people, and never tried to get to know those who were so different from me.

Now that I have offered analysis and reflection on the extended family field of my family system on a macro level, I want to provide a microscopic look as it relates to individuals and individual relationships within my family system. As previously mentioned my family tends to have a level of homeostasis that is comfortable with distance and long periods of not interacting. This does not mean we do not love each other; we are just comfortable loving at a distance. This is connected to one of our unspoken rules and expectations, which is do not feel bad if I do not call you or interact with you regularly. This unspoken

Over the years, I have become conscious of the manner in which I speak and behave when connecting with my peers and others. My parents especially have offered wonderful instruction, and extended much-needed assistance as I began to comprehend the influence my actions had on others. I consider my family to be wonderfully tight-knit. I have both of my parents and two older brothers. My brothers both progressed on and out of our childhood home. Although they no longer live with my parents and me, the love and support my family still shares- from hundreds of miles apart- is genuinely unreal. The Goins clan might not all live under one roof anymore, but it certainly feels like when we did. The extent of inspiration my parents offer each of us kids

Growing up, my mother’s side of the family was always an active one. From family gatherings, sleepovers, birthdays, etc. we were always in contact. On the other hand, I never saw much of my father’s side. There’d be a phone passed to me with an auntie on the other

Throughout Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town, resistance to change is a popular, repeated theme; this theme is easily seen when George and Emily walk home from school together and stop at the drugstore for ice cream sodas. Emily’s caution as to not upset George when confronting him about changing and Mr. Morgan’s negative comments about the changes going on in town and about the passage of time making matters worse, show the seriousness that townspeople of Grover’s Corners take any amount of change.

The word migration can have a very different meaning to each individual. In the dictionary it is defined as the movement of people from one country or locality to another. I now see the word with such a deeper meaning no only is it the group of people moving, but in fact how they moved and the struggles they had to go through. Before I sat down with both of my parent and asked them about my “roots” I had no idea how difficult migration from Mexico to the US was for both of my parents families. I never took the time to listen to little details on how exactly they ended up in this country. After I took the time to listen to my elder relatives and parents talk about how they use to

In Our Town, Thorton Wilder, shows many different possible themes for the play. There's the theme of life, death, emotion, etc, etc. However, I will be looking at the theme that Wilder shows Our Town's understanding of life and death. This can be proven by examining the lives of Joe Crowell, Emily Webb, and Simon Stimpson. First, we are shown Joe Crowell, the town's paperboy.

Our Town is a rather unorthodox production. Most playwrights want to go for realism and detail, with huge scene sets or intricate scene changes. Not this one. In Our Town the author (Thornton Wilder) strives to create a play which does not need to rely on scenery and detail, but visualization and the investment of the audience. In this way there is nothing to distract from the core message or plot of the play. What this play does take to it’s advantage are sound effect; with the lack of props or scenery the sound effects give us the perfect amount of imagery to go on. Now within this script there are several directors in which have taken the play and made it their own. Out of three of the plays being: NBC's 1977 representation, PBS’s 1989 representation, and PBS’s 2003 representation. From these three representations one of theme most suitably gets a grasp of what Wilder was going for; simplicity, relatability, and imagery. PBS’s 2003 representation best defines what wilder's vision of his great play was.

The few times we did get to spend time together as a family, it wouldn’t feel like it. I knew all the relationships between my family members. I was the one who they told everything to but ask me not to tell anyone. This was a lot of weight on my shoulders because I began caring for everyone else’s relationships; especially my mom’s because my brother and sister would argue

My family consists of multiple backgrounds and nationalities. I come from a multi-racial household; my mother, Tonia Dawson, is Jamaican and my father, Joshua Brown, is Dominican/ Puerto-Rican. After, my parents’ split I spent the majority of my childhood strictly growing up with my maternal relatives. On my maternal side, there is an abundance of family members: my great-grandmother has 10 children, my great- aunt also has 10 children and most of her kids have 3 children each. Most of my family that resides in the United States is heavily concentrated in the Bronx, New York. I decided to focus on how assimilation in society, aspect of family, poverty, education, and gender has shaped my family.

The carriages in Charles Dickens’ novel, A Tale of Two Cities, are much more than just modes of travel for the middle and upper classes. These carriages symbolize everything from safety and freedom to oppression and condemnation. In an early scene in Paris, a carriage is carrying a wine cask. The carriage crashes, and the cask falls into the street, bursting and spilling the wine. Every citoyen in sight rushes to the scene and they all begin to drink the tainted wine. This scene foreshadows the bloodshed to come from the guillotine, which will spill blood into the street in the future. Even though the Manette family and their excursions are the focal point of A Tale of Two Cities, many other events are developing in the background. By the end

A key reason I feel a lot closer to my friends than family sometimes is due to my parents split. During this time, as I stated parents were busy and frustrated physically, mentally, and emotionally. Due to this my brother and I spent a lot of time going to our friends’ houses to escape. In these escapes my friends and their family became like my own. I feel it’s important to include them in the relational network because of this close bond I was able to form with them.

My family has always been very close. We spend a great deal of time together and express our deep feelings and emotions with one another. If one of us has an issue, every member of the family is aware of it and shares the burden. When a person in the family does not share significant information about one’s life with the rest of the members, there is hurt feelings. Also, if a member cannot attend a family event, the family feels disappointed and misses the absent member. It is evident that connectedness is held as extremely valuable.

However, “emerging adulthood” has changed our family dynamics. Now that I am more independent there doesn’t seem to be near as much to argue about. Communication is key, my parents provide assistance and standby guidance as needed and mutual respect. My maturing while in college has affected my relationships with all my family members on a more adult level. It has made me closer to my Mom, her guidance that I once ignored, fussed and openly denied, I now value. I talk to her daily about all my concerns. In retrospect, I now see that the advice that I thought was so dumb was full of wisdom and love. In other words, all the times I was rolling my eyes, she was right. We now share as adults, mother to daughter and woman to woman. She asks my advice and values my judgements as much as I do hers. I now better understand my dad’s concern for financial matters and how it affects the future wellbeing of the family. I respect his money management skills that have allowed both my brother and I to attend college debt free and to take care of the mechanical day to day needs. I can have a mature conversation about social and world views, my car maintenance, basic matters of life with him and still continue to share our past love of going to the farm together. He in turn, calls me frequently for assistance with various questions he feels I may know the answer to.

No one can’t meet a family like mine’s. My family is well diversified. Every family member plays an important role in all my family’s lives. In my family, there are four people: my father, my mother, my little brother and me. My father is one who brings money home and is also responsible for organizing and planning family trips. My mother is the one who is in charge for making meals and makes sure everyone eats at the appropriate times. My little brother is the pet of the family. He actually doesn’t have any responsibilities, for he’s the pet. I am the rock of support in my family. I always go beyond my parents’ expectations. I also support my younger cousins and little brother, by being a role model that they can look up to. Another