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Family can be defined as people who are related to you, consisting of (but not limited to): grandparents, parents, siblings, and children. Our families affect who we are by raising us in a particular way that coincides with their culture and beliefs. As we age and learn more, we can decide whether we will keep these beliefs or accept a new truth. This can cause people to either embrace their family, or distance themselves.

For such a small word, “Family,” can mean so much. In a dictionary one may read family as people with common ancestors, but a true family is people who stick together and support one another at any cost. Both books, Night by Elie Wiesel, and, Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand display the theme of family relationships throughout the story.

Blood families are essential to your life considering its a family you are born into. It is different from a friend related family. “Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us only get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can […]. ’’

In the novel The Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver, there is a girl named missy who lived in Kentucky with her mom. Missy leaves her mom to get a new life somewhere else. She also changes her name to Taylor on her journey. While on her journey she got handed a child from a stranger. She takes the child and continues Taylor's journey. Taylor finds a whole bunch of friends on her journey. This novel makes you ask to rethink your definition of “family” because on Taylor’s journey she meets a lot of friends that start to become family to her. Also when Taylor received Turtle, she started to make a family with Turtle without even knowing her. All of Taylor’s friends treated each other and helped each other just like they were family. That is how this

Using the scientific explanation, everyone in this world was given birth by a man and a woman. The man and the woman are his/her father and mother. They are blood related to the person. They are the first people in touch with the person. They live together and they usually accompany the person until they die. They are the person’s family. Hassan, Liz and the Eric C. Wat define family as people who will always love each other and the sense of belonging as the feeling to be loved by their family in Lady C!” by Kwame Stephens, “A Sense of Loss” by Becky Birtha and “Blood, Thick, and Thin” by Eric C.

When one talks about their family, they can be describing any number of things: a biological family, a close-knit friend group, or even a romantic relationship that feels homely. No matter the definition, a family is typically a group of people with genuine love, care, and respect for one another, in the hopes of never harming another family member. However, in literature, it is not uncommon to have a variation from that standard definition. In The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, characters get cheated out of money and are driven to depression by their fellow family members. Tennessee Williams’ novel Cat on a Hot Tin Roof depicts a family that cannot stand one another, as it is filled with failing marriages and miserable relationships between siblings. Lastly, in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, a child gets murdered by their own mother. Although these works of literature are vastly different, they all a family which is set apart from society, leading to familial tensions and conflicts; this causes readers to contemplate how that affects the storyline.

Family; a group consisting of parents and children living together in a household. When around a certain group of people you can start mimicking their own habits, therefore you take multiple traits from your family as you age. Family is not something people should take for granted. It shapes identities and ways of life. In the book In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, the Smiths and the Clutters show opposite ends of the spectrum according to how they tend to live out their lives. The two families have different backgrounds that lead them to live contrasting lifestyles, which warrants various outcomes of themselves in the future.

A family consists of a group of interacting individuals related by blood, marriage, cohabitation, or adoption who interdependently perform relevant functions by fulfilling expected roles. (Edelman, Kudzma, & Mandle, 2014, p. 150)

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.

When people live in these communities they all try to stay as connected as they can. These people become so close to a point where they consider each other family. In the essay "Beliefs About Families" by Mary Pipher, she writes, "For many people, friends become family" (388). What Mary Pipher means by this quote is that not all families are blood-related. Friends could also be family. In different circumstances, some people consider someone family when that person has been there for him or her. Mary Pipher adds, "Others simply prefer a community or friends to their biological families" (389). When people go through struggles together they become closer. They feel a type of connection because of something they both

The word “family” has plenty of different meanings. People have many ways of describing what a family is and what family means to them. Family is no longer limited to the definition of “blood” relatives but more so the group of people that provide you with unconditional love and support. The common family usually consists of a mother, father, and their children. In “A Death in the Family,’ the Follet family is exactly that until a tragic event comes upon the family. Not only is the novel about a death in the family, but the experience of life and the meaning of family.

As someone who did not grow up with a typical family, I claim most of my close friends as “family” members. Every year we get together for birthdays, vacations and celebrate some holidays together. Some of my close friends are even closer than my actual family. One friend that I grew up with since the 7th grade is practically a brother to me, and even though I have and love my own mom, to this day I call his mother “mom” as well. I do believe that family is based on bonds and emotional ties, not just by blood and marriage. Our textbook defines “fictive kin as close relations with people we consider ‘like family’ but who are not related to us by blood or marriage (p.352)”. This sociological concept helps me realize that my own situation of who and what I consider family is more common than I may have thought before.

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

When I hear the word family, I think of people who are are blood related, the people you live with, and the people you see all the time. They provide for you and embarrass you. People are also family, even if they aren’t blood related, but are there for you no matter what and they mean everything to you. Family is always by your side when you need them. People hear family and think about parents, I hear family and think about my parents, aunts, cousins, friends, and my karate family. They are all so important to me and I don’t know what I would do without them. On the other hand, Romeo and Juliet displayed family in an interesting way. When Juliet said she didn’t want to marry Paris, her mother said she would disown her if she didn’t do

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.