Tyrone : A Cultural Heritage Of European Ancestry

We all have our group of friends that we meet up with after class, or on the weekends.

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.

In “Lives of the Dead”, O’Brien’s own innocence is preserved through the memory of Linda, a memory that remains untarnished by the inevitable corruption that results from life. O’Brien’s writings “save Linda’s life. Not her body--her life” (236). Storytelling and memories preserve the value of Linda’s existence while simultaneously allowing O’Brien to process death and destruction in a way that maintains a degree of optimism regarding his own life and future. Juxtaposing the images of body and life emphasizes his desire to save the idea of Linda while accepting the loss of her physical presence. O’Brien rejects the idea of death as absolute and final; instead he suggests that “once you are alive, you can never be dead” (244). Linda’s death solidifies her importance in O’Brien’s own development; she teaches him about life and real love as much as in death as in life. O’Brien’s paradoxical statement defines the lasting impact of Linda on him; her presence in his stories keeps her alive through memory; memories that even her death

1. The Scotch-Irish were staunch libertarians, and acted upon their feelings. Sex ways and dress ways had close ties to each other in the backcountry. To talk about sex and sexual behavior was also acceptable in this culture. The dress women and men wore was meant to arouse the opposite sex. Anglican missionary Charles Woodmason wrote, “They draw their shift as tight as possible round their Breasts, and slender waists (for they are generally very finely shaped) and draw their Petticoat close t their Hips to show the fineness of their limbs– … –indeed nakedness is not censurable without ceremony.” Woodmason was appalled at how these women carried themselves, but to the women, they were sexy. Men even dressed in ways to show off

How can you describe family? Many may say it’s the ones who have a blood relations. Others may say it can be knowing someone for a long period of time. The retellings that I choose to discuss are “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates, and “Cinderella” by Grimm Brothers. These stories portray unique family dynamics but also have certain characteristics that make them similar.

On the fields and rice paddies of Vietnam, O’Brien constantly questions himself as to why he was a victor in the game of life and death. It is evident that there is some form of guilt that messes with him causing him to create these stories to extend the lives of those whose lives were cut short. Another form of ‘guilt’ by being one of the few survivors plays another role in the development of reviving and remembering his very first crush as a child, Linda. Linda had died when she was just nine years old to an incurable brain tumor. O’Brien’s use of his memory to reconstruct social settings and feelings allow him to repair and mend the wounds caused by her death. Experiencing the death of what O’Brien would consider a loved one, would have

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

The school year approached its end. Another summer to spend alone by myself. The cycle had been repeating since I was in grade school. Sadness choked me as I returned home and shut my door. Every year, the resolution was the same: I would try to make friends next year; however, every year, I felt myself falling back down into the same trap. By the time high school began, I no longer felt the numb sensation of sadness or the flow of tears as the final day of May became the last day I talked with my “friends.” I no longer expected to make any friends, or, more accurately, I no longer expected to be able to make any friends. The sheer possibility of befriending an individual appeared to me as foreign as speaking in latin. When I walked into school, what should have been a site of chatter, opportunity, and growth appeared to me as a form of imprisonment and torture; however, unbeknownst to me, I did have friends; something of which I did not recognize until years passed by. I grown attached to certain conversations; there were times where I felt the need to initiate a conversation rather than waiting for someone else to make one. It was not until one of my friends told me,”We’re your friends aren’t we?” when I realized I was not longer

Family can pertain to one’s family of origin, one’s extended family, and the family one creates. David’s family of origin, which is the family he was born to, consisted of a mother, father, and two older sisters. Although he was the youngest and only brother in the immediate family, he had and continues to have a good relationship with his sisters, Erica and Michelle. As a child, he was in charge of mowing the lawn, cutting and bringing in firewood, and cleaning his room and the basement. Dave attended Gallop Hill School in Ledyard, where he had many friends and ate lunch at his desk because they didn’t have a cafeteria. During childhood and up until he married his wife, Dave’s extended family was primarily located in Queens, New York. Whenever he visited them, the whole family would meet at his Aunt Kathy’s house, which is where David’s mother and family grew up. Another place that they gathered was at his Grandpa Red’s house in Groton, where his dad, uncles, and aunt grew up. Because it

The dominant theme of the play is the past. It shaped the relationship between James Tyrone and his sons: Edmund and James Jr. Furthermore, the past is seen as a burden and therefore, a common father-sons relationship cannot be realized. James

He knows it is not just a hallucination. After that experience he left town and was unable to cope with his grief. Later he recovered from his experience and learned to cope with his grief. He learned the valuable lesson not to let yourself to be swallowed by grief.

A family can be defined in many different ways and almost every person has their own view and definition of families. Some may define it as simply as the blood relatives they have grown up with, living in the same home for most of their life. Whereas others, including myself, have a much more in depth or personable definition. No matter the culture or living situation, my definition of a family is the people I know will be there for me whenever I need them to be. This includes not only my actual blood related siblings, parents, grandparents and cousins but also my best friends and even some of my parents’ close friends that I have known the majority of my life. Family should not be defined by blood. I have an aunt that was adopted which means she is not blood related, but I still fully consider her family, I believe this has an impact on my own definition of a family. Television today has changed the views and stereotypes on American Families. Stereotypes include the family having a mother and father living in the same home where the mother is a stay at home mom, while the father makes a living for the family. Also the family is usually Caucasian and considered wealthy, living in the suburbs. The shows such as Full House, Good Luck Charlie Keeping Up With The Kardashians have had a major impact on how societies view families in this day and age because of the way they follow these American Stereotypes.

Like the Picts, the Scots lived in tribes, often around farms. Scots lived in Ireland for a long time without roman influence. Visible drawbacks related to that fact were the primitive life circumstances and the lack of technical sophistication. The tribal farms had no water supply and were only secured by wooden walls or fences. Ireland was full of little, continously changing kingdoms and soon, some kings decided to settle in new areas. So they came to ancient Scotland, where they formed the kingdom of Dal Riata. Due to first encounters with Picts and Britons, the Scots evolved and the new kingdom was more sophisticated and advanced than everything else back in Ireland. Although, most of the people were farmers. They grew oats and barley

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.

According to Swartz and Scott (2009), family is defined as a group of people related to each other by blood, marriage, adoption or being sexually open in a relationship. The