Subject of Family in Lessing’s Flight, Hughes’ Mother to Son, Kincaids

Subject of Family in Lessings Flight, Hughes M some other to Son, Kincaids Girl and Adrienne Richs Poem, MercedFamily as defined by Websters College Dictionary squirt be one of many a(prenominal) different people. Family send packing be your p bents, spouse, children, brother, sister, grandmother, uncle, any blood relative, or even people who are not blood related that share that common bond (Webster 475). My rendering of family is similar to Websters, but I odor that there is more to it than rightful(prenominal) being a blood relative or close friend. A persons actions, beliefs, and morals play a major reference in deciding who makes it into that family group. Family becomes more of an idea or feeling, like cacoethes or hate, than on the dot who a person is or where they fall in your family tree. There come been people that I have considered closer than family just by their actions, even though they were nowhere near related to me. Fortunately, I have not had any blo od relation family members make me paying attention they were not in my family (maybe my older sister when we were younger, but that doesnt count). charm reading from Children and Families in our text, I came across many readings that I feel were inspired in many different instructions by what the compose believed was family. There were two readings that jumped out at me and reminded me of my view of how a family should be in their interactions with each other. They were the short story Flight by Doris Lessing and the poesy Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. There was also one committal to writing that I read that went against my idea of family and made me happy that this wasnt the way that my family acted as I grew up, that was Girl by Jamaica Kincaid. And while some authors work their writing one direction or another, Adrienn... ...s us think that this can happen to any of us, even if we think that we are loved and in a family. This helps us realize how important it i s to keep the family together, throughout anything that happens. period reading through the writings from Children and Families in our textbook, I see many different connotations of what family means either to the source, or the meaning that the writer is seek to place in their story or poem. Often times the writer is portraying their own culture or that of which they are writing, and at other times they may be taking a straightforward, eye-opening look contribute at what family has become to some people and that it needs to be changed rump to a positive part of life. Again, a member of your family doesnt have to be a blood relative, they can be anyone who has an impact on your life, positive or negative, friend or enemy.