Use what you have learned from
reading these pieces to write
a paragraph that provides an analysis of how the theme
of family and its blessings and curses is depicted in the two pieces, addressing the
writers’ use of style and diction.
As
a starting point, you may want to consider what is emphasized, absent, or different
in the two texts.
Develop
your paragraph by providing textual evidence from both texts.
Use
the provided lined paper to compose your response.
You must IDENTIFY the
grammatical, literary, and syntactical terms (from this sheet in the middle
column) WITHIN your paragraph. Do not simply summarize and quote. Remember
that this paragraph is about the writing, not an assessment of the characters' growth
throughout the book.
Reading A: “The Secret Life of Bees” excerpt by Sue Monk Kidd (pg. 176)
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Reading B: “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will” by Cecile Gilmer
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I
wandered back to my room and at on my cot. Heat radiated from the
window. I considered getting up to turn on the fan but only sat there
staring through the panes at
the milky-blue sky, a sad, ragged feeling catching hold inside. I could
hear music coming from the truck radio, Sam Cooke singing “Another
Saturday Night,” then May calling across the yard to Rosaleen, something
about getting the sheets off the clothesline.
And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its
regular courses, and I was suspended, waiting, caught in a terrible
crevice between living my life and not living it. I couldn’t go on
biding my time like there as no end of it, no end
to this summer. I felt tears spring up. I would have to come clean.
Whatever happened… well, it would just happen.
I went over to the sink and washed my face.
Taking
a deep breath, I stuffed my mother’s black Mary picture and her
photograph into my pocket and started toward the pink house to find
August.
I
thought we would sit down on the end of her bed, or out in the lawn
chairs if the mosquitoes weren’t bad. I imagined August would say,”
What’s on your mind, Lily? Are
we finally gonna have our talk?” I would pull out the wooden picture
and tell her every last thing, and then she would explain about my
mother.
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When
her biological family fell apart, Cecile Gilmer found a new family. She
believes the love and kindness these chosen “relatives” gave her
allowed her to become an
open and loving person.
I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes just people that show up and love you when no one else will.
In
May 1977, I lived in a Howard Johnson’s motel off of Interstate 10 in
Houston. My dad and I shared a room with two double beds and a bathroom
way too small for a modest
15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was in trouble
and my stepmother had kicked us both out of the house the previous week.
Dad had no idea what to do with me. And that’s when my other family
showed up.
Barbara
and Roland Beach took me into their home because their only daughter,
Su, my best friend, asked them to. I lived with them for the next seven
years.
Barb
starched my drill team skirts same as Su’s. She made sure I had lunch
money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework, Jordache jeans, puka
shell necklaces and nightly
hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I
marched, every drama performance I was in even when I had no speaking
lines. As far as I could tell, for the Beaches, there was no difference
between Su and me: I was their daughter, too.
When
Su and I left for rival colleges, they kept my room the same for the
entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an
insurance policy they
bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for
23 years.
The
Beaches knew all about me when they took me in. When I was seven, my
mother died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and from then on my father
relied on other people
to raise his kids. By the time I went to live with the Beaches, I
believed that life was entirely unfair and that love was tenuous and
untrustworthy. I believed that the only person who would take care of me
was me.
Without
the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical woman. They gave me a
home that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being
paralyzed by my past, and
gave me the confidence to open my heart.
I
believe in family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the
day I was born, but the one that was there for me when I was living in a
Howard Johnson’s on Interstate
10.
Cecile
Gilmer has moved 26 times since her birth in San Antonio in 1962. She
now lives with her cat and dog in Logan, Utah, where she is an events
planner. Gilmer is still
close to her friends Su and the Beaches, having recently joined them
for a family reunion.
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ReplyDeleteIn the book, the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, one of the biggest themes is how family does not only come with blessings, but also curses. In Reading A, Lily writes and emphasizes how she feels and the emotions inside if her that are fighting to get out. The curses of her family are the guilt and abuse, along with the pain of the absence of her mother. But her family blessings are also depicted in this paragraph, because families don’t always have to be the ones who you are related too, they simply have to be the ones who love you more than anyone else can or will. This reading also shows the blessings because she years to speak the truth, she wants to tell the people of the pink house who she really is because deep inside, she knows they are the closest thing to family that she has. So she sits, and daydreams about the time when she will finally come clean of her past to August. In reading B, the author writes about how her own family wasn’t really a family at all. Her dad had nothing so therefore she didn’t either after her mom committed suicide. This shows the curses of family because it shows just how devastating and life changing g a negative event in a family can be, such as losing a family member. But this reading piece also says that her best friends family took her in as if she were their real daughter, and how it didn’t matter whether they were related or not. These both show that love is love, no matter what way you want to put it, our real family are those that we know are always here and love us through thick and thin at the end of the day.
Reading A, from The Secret Life Of Bees, shows Lily’s internal struggle to come clean about the past. She wants August to understand her and her story, and most of all, wants the true facts about her mother. Lily doesn’t really have anyone biologically related to her who she would refer to as “family.” August seems to take the place of Lily’s mother. “What’s on your mind, Lily? Are we finally gonna have our talk?” She’d say. One of Lily’s biggest problems is being trapped in this place that she describes as “a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it.” She’s lonely, she’s confused, and she wants to know the secrets about her mother that have been being kept from her for her entire life. This can be one of the curses of family: Not having one, and not knowing about the ones you used to have. In the second piece, Cecile also starts her journey quite lonely. A dead mother and a disloyal father hang in the places where proud parents should’ve stood. Just like Lily’s situation, Cecile’s mother is absent from her life, and her father is not the most caring either. They both have experienced the hardships and cruelties of family. Cecile’s story is proof that family doesn’t mean blood. The people who love and accept you unconditionally are true family. The mood of this piece becomes brighter when the author explains how much her quality of life improved through out her years of living with her new family. In the metaphor, “They kept me from being paralyzed by my past,” Cecile makes the point that without the blessing of her new family, she would’ve ended up a bitter, sorrowful woman. This unique piece touches upon both the blessings and cruelties of family.
ReplyDeleteIn both of these writing pieces, the good things and bad things of family are represented using different writing crafts. In the first piece, Lily talks about not being able to lie to your family or people you think of as family by using vivid word choice. Lily says “I couldn’t go on hiding my time there as no end of it, no end to this summer. I felt tears spring up.” By using vivid verbs such as “spring”, the author makes it easier to understand how Lily was feeling. This piece also represents one of the blessings of family which is trusting your family members. Lily says “I would pull out the wooden picture and tell her every last thing, and then she would explain about my mother.” The author uses a run-on sentence to show how anxious Lily was and how much she said to say.
ReplyDeleteIn the second piece, the author talks about another negative to family, abandonment. She says “…and my stepmother had kicked both of us out of the house the previous week.” By writing this in first-person, it makes the story seem closer to you, and you feel sympathy for her. This piece also mentions a positive to having a family. The author says “They kept me from being paralyzed by my past, and gave me the confidence to open my heart.” The author uses a hyperbole by saying she would be “paralyzed.” By using this in her writing, it makes it easier to tell how she would feel.
Both “The Secret Life of Bees” and “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will” depict the theme of family and its blessings and curses. One major similarity is the perspective the two pieces are written from. Both are about a person who lost their parents but found other people to love them. The tone of both pieces are also similar. For example, in “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will”, the text states, “I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes just people that show up and love you when no one else will.” The tone of this is serious, considering she lost her family, but is also optimistic, because she believes that a new family can be found. The main place that the two pieces vary is in syntax. “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will” has simple sentences, explaining her life, while “The Secret Life of Bees” has much more complex sentences. For instance, “The Secret Life of Bees” has rich sentences such as, “I considered getting up to turn on the fan but only sat there staring through the panes at the milky-blue sky, a sad, ragged feeling catching hold inside.” In the end, both passages depict the theme of family and its blessings and curses.
ReplyDeleteA family can offer you either blessings or curses during the course of one’s life. Passages from The Secret Life of Bees and The People Who Love You When No One Else Will depict the diversity among these blessings and curses. The sentences in both passages are lengthy with many commas, used to provide more detail. Figurative language is most commonly used in the form of metaphors. The setting in The Secret Life of Bees is “I could hear music coming from the truck radio, Sam Cooke singing ‘Another Saturday Night’.” This song was written in 1964, around the time when Lily was listening to it on the radio. May of 1997 is when Cecile’s life dramatically changed for the better. These time periods in which these stories take place affects the characters family life. When Lily left home, the police were not as involved in finding her as they would have been today. This could have affected her development because she may have had to been returned to T Ray when discovered. Cecile’s situation was unlike Lily’s because Cecile lived in 1997 when there were higher trained police. If Cecile had lived in a different time period, she may have run away and not ended up with the Beach family, as she did. The lessons taught were different ones. In The People Who Love You When No One Else Will and The Secret Life of Bees, “It wasn’t about the family that was there on the day I was born, but the one that was there for me…” This quote symbolizes the relationship Lily has with the Boatwright’s and the relationship Cecile has with the Beaches.
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ReplyDeleteFamily is shown in both pieces. Both The Secret Life of Bees and The People Who love You When No One Else Will are written in the same structure of paragraphing, they both are told in first person. In Secret Life of Bees it is told by Lily Owens and in The People who love You When No One Else Will it is told by Cecile Gilmer. In The People Who Love You When No One Else Will, Cecile mentions how family shows up and loves you when there is nobody else will. She says this to explain that family members are supposed to make you feel loved when you are on the verge of feeling that nobody loves you. They are there to comfort you, support you. “Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home because their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to.” This directly relates to Lily because Lily was also taken in by a family when she needed one. Just like Cecile, Lily’s father also was not a very good father –causing her to run away – so Lily need a caring, comforting family, and that is exactly what both Cecile and Lily got. Sue Monk Kidd uses a lot of good vocabulary throughout the text such as: crevice, binding, and radiated. Cecile Gilmer also used good vocabulary such as: starched, tenuous, and cynical. Kidd also has good figurative language such as, “Milky-blue sky”
Family – people who support you when no one else can, and your friends who you’ll always be connected to. Family is more than just a mother, father, and siblings. Families are people who help you grow up, support you in everything you ever do, and give you light on your darkest days. However, even with all of their blessings that come along with families, there’s also curses. These two selections reflect on how wonderful a family is, but the pain and struggle that go along with them. In Reading A, it states, “Then May calling across the yard to Rosaleen, something about getting the sheets off the clothesline. And I was struck all at once how life was out there going through its regular courses… and tell her every last thing, and then she would explain about my mother.” This quote shows the beauty of family, how we have daily schedules and life is always pleasant with families, but it also shows how Lily is torn apart with her own family, and struggling with the death of her mother. Her mother was a huge part of her family and her death just led Lily to struggle with confusion and heartbreak. This shows us how family can be delightful and relaxing, but it can also lead to brokenness on the inside. In Reading B it states, “She made sure I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework, Jordache jeans, puka shell necklaces and nightly hugs…my mother died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound and from then on my father relied on other people to raise his kids. By the time I went to live with the Beaches, I believed that life was entirely unfair and that love was tenuous and untrustworthy.” This shows us although families provide with the simplest yet most precious things (hugs, money, and clothing), one tragedy involved in a family can lead to doubts about the world and confusion. In Reading B, the author uses word choice such as “tenuous” and “untrustworthy” to describe curses that go along with family. However, in Reading A, the author uses setting to describe the simplest beauty in family, such as “pink house,” “music coming through the truck,” and “lawn chairs.” These little pieces show the blessing family come along with.
ReplyDeleteThe theme of family and its blessings and curses is depicted in the excerpt from The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd and in The People Who Love You When No One Else Will by Cecile Gilmer. In The Secret Life of Bees excerpt, Lily is sharing her thoughts about her life now. Lily feels accepted with the family that has taken her in, the Boatwright sisters. In The People Who Love You When No One Else Will, Cecile describes the difficulties of her family and how grateful she was to find a new one. Cecile feels like she belongs with the family that had helped her grow and allowed her to stay with them, the Beaches. Both of these girl’s mothers had died from guns and their fathers hadn’t been much help towards them either. These were a few family curses in their lives. Their new families, the ones who were there for them when no one else was, were their blessings. “I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes just people that show up and love you when no one else will.” This quote from The People Who Love You When No One Else Will shows that family doesn’t just have to be the people who you are related to. It could also be people who are kind and willing enough to take you in and love you as if you were one of them. “Taking a deep breath, I stuffed my mother’s black Mary picture and her photograph into my pocket and started toward the pink house to find August.” This quote from The Secret Life of Bees explains that Lily was cursed with the fact that her mother died, but was also blessed that August and the sisters became her new family. Both Lily and Cecile were cursed by the tragedies of their real families but were lucky enough to be blessed with new families that truly care for them.
ReplyDeleteBoth of these Readings show that love isn’t connected to you. Love is free, with no strings attached to that person. You don’t have to be biologically related to be family, and have a true love for someone. In Reading A, Lily slowly realizes that. Without saying it, she knows that August, June, May, and Rosaleen are her true family. Even though they aren’t blood related, they still are her family. As the text says, “I thought we would sit down on the end of her bed, or out in the lawn chairs if the mosquitoes weren’t bad. I imagined August would say,” What’s on your mind, Lily? Are we finally gonna have our talk?” Lily wants to come clean with August, she trusts her. This reading tells a story. It’s descriptions of hearing music and laying on a bed show us more than basic actions. They are showing pain and love. Lily is trying to fight her way out of this war with herself. She’s holding the truth, like a glass holding water, threatening to fall over and spill. Reading B shows that Cecile Gilmer learns that love comes from within. That you don’t have to be family to love someone. As the text says, “I believe in family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was born, but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.” She is telling the readers that love is not blood-related, but a true emotion and attitude towards someone. Reading B and Reading A both show desperate feelings, as Lily is upset and Cecile Gilmer had no true family. They also show explanation of their feelings. Reading B has long sentences, and that’s Cecile explaining her new family. Lily is showing her pain, her “inner war”. Both of these readings tell a story, both hopeful and desperate at the same time.
ReplyDeleteThroughout both of these pieces of literature, one theme is quite evidently shown, the idea that family comes with both blessings and curses. In the excerpt from “The Secret Life of Bees” this theme is shown from the dialogue of August when Lily thinks that August will sit on the edge of the bed and say, “What’s on your mind, Lily? Are we finally gonna have our talk?” By using these particular sentences, the author shows through dialogue that Lily imagines what August, someone who Lily now feels like is family would say to her. This also contains the other side of the coin in the fact that T.Ray would never ask her a question like that to better comprehend her troubles. Also, Sue Monk Kid uses syntax to further prove this point by writing a very long sentence about how Lily feels about life to further emphasize the curses that her past family has laid upon her, and how she wants to move on, but she feels as if she is caught in a crevice. In Reading B, it explains this theme using syntax by doing something very similar to that of which Sue Monk Kid used; a long run on sentence to emphasize the problems that Cecile Gilmer’s family had created. On the other hand Cecile Gilmer also used syntax to show the blessings that family can provide in long sentences as well to emphasize the big point. “She made sure I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework, Jordache jeans, puka shell necklaces, and nightly hugs.” This sentence rambles on about the blessings that her “other family” gave to her. Overall, both of these writings use syntax and other literary terms, like dialogue to further drive home the point that family brings both blessings and curses.
ReplyDeleteFamily is something that mostly everyone has. They don’t have to be biological; they are just the people who will always have your back and be there for you. Like all things, family has its blessings and curses. The theme of family and its blessings and curses is evident in the “Secret Life of Bees” and “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will”. In “The Secret Life of Bees”, Lily’s family and past causes her lots of problems. Sue Monk Kidd, the author, uses similes and metaphors to present this theme. In the text, it says, “I couldn’t go on biding my time like there was no end of it, no end to this summer.” This means that Lily would eventually have to face the truth about her family and it could ruin things with the Boatwrights. The excerpt mentions May, Rosaleen, and August in small ways that have big impact. She talks about May and Rosaleen in a cheerful manner like nothing is wrong, but when she mentions August, the dialogue makes it clear that Lily and her have a deep connection. The way in which the references to other characters was written, made it obvious that these women are like Lily’s family because they are all comfortable with each other. In the autobiography by Cecile Gilmer, she describes how her biological family fell apart and how she was “adopted” into a new family that loved her. Even though they weren’t biological they were still a family and they all acted like one. “Barb starched my drill team skirts same as Su’s. She made sure I had lunch money, [etc.]” This shows how new families can have their blessings when others could have curses. The mood of this passage is cheerful and heartwarming in order to give the reader a clear understanding of what a true family feels like. The author gives the word “home” a different meaning. Rather than just being a place to live, she transformed it into a place where the heart is. Both of these prompts show how family can have blessings and curses. The two authors do this by putting the theme out there in both obvious and unclear ways by going beneath the surface. Family doesn’t have to be your blood relatives, they just have to be the ones who love you.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the exert from Reading A and B it is evident that family does not only come with blessings, but also curses. In Reading A, Lily wants to come clean about her mother, and about how she has so much family now. Even though she has many more blessings it is also a curse because there is always a chance of losing them like her mother. Reading A says, "caught in a terrible crevice between living my life and not living it". When this happens it is clear that the blessing of family are lily living live, and the curses family brings along with it is not living life, and playing it safe. This means one could live life and risk it all to be happy with their blessings, or play it safe to prevent anything, and to not life life.In Reading B the lady talks about how one person can turn into family without any connection to one at all. These types of people are the blessings of life like when she talks about the beaches, those beaches were her blessing when every other part of family had turned into a curse. Both of these readings show how you only can always lose one who you thought was there, but there is always blessings in the family that are just hidden and you have to look for them.
ReplyDeleteFamily. A single word, with much meaning; some include they people who love them as family while others stick only to their true blood relatives. Family and its blessings and curses are depicted in the two pieces as providing comfort, support, care, but additionally emotional weakness. In Reading A, and excerpt of “The Secret Life of Bees”, the setting reflects one of familiarity for the narrator, making her feel at ease and at home. It is her self-formed family that creates this usual mood of regularity and contentment. Except, at this point, the perspective is distorted by Lily’s inner turmoil in paragraph 1, “I couldn’t go on biding my time like there was no end of it, no end to this summer. I felt tears spring up. I would have to come clean”. This shows how family can sometimes be a negative thing. Lily must feel guilty for lying to them, causing a sentimental weakness in Lily’s façade. Due to this guilt weighing down upon Lily’s spirits, she goes to August who seems to be a figure that the narrator looks up to as a maternal figure in her life, her true mother’s location is unknown as she only mentions having one of her mother’s belongings. In paragraph 3 of Reading A, Lily writes, “ I imagined August would say, ‘What’s on your mind, Lily? Are we finally gonna have our talk?’ ” This tone of casualness stays through the excerpt since the narrator appears to be thinking out her thoughts and deciding whether or not to reveal the truth to one of her newfound “family” members. The imagined dialogue that August would speak show that she cares for Lily although they are not technically related because, otherwise, she would not want to waste her time encouraging Lily to have this talk of theirs. Reading B also demonstrates how family can bring comfort to oneself merely with it’s title, “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will”. This is the author’s own definition of family, one not created with the boundaries of blood in mind, but love. The setting of the autobiography starts out as a desolate, loveless story of a girl and her beaten down father in a motel. The mood changed from one of depression to a more inspiring, hopeful look towards the future on the last sentence of the third paragraph with the simple word choice, “And that’s when my other family showed up”. The straightforwardness of that single phrase underlines the raw truth and feeling behind this action. The point of view of this is as the young girl so one feels, as they are reading the passage, how deeply the appreciation runs for this kind action and what exactly her new “parents” did. The pain that her former, real parents caused for the author Cecile Gilmer was replaced by the love of her best friend’s parents, Barbara and Roland Beach. Evidently, family can be a weakness or strength; family can pull you down or lift you up. That the benefits of the nurturing care the narrator was supplied with is evident in her second to last paragraph she wrote in Passage B, “The gave me a home that allowed be to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed by my past, and gave me the confidence to open my heart.” Again, the author’s use of syntax is one of clear-cut sentences with no excessive statements. Her grammar is compiled of consistent periods, as she wants nothing to distract from the message that she blatantly stated. That message is her title, family is… “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will”. Both reading passages, demonstrate how having family can be a pro and con. This theme is seen in the excerpt by Sue Monk Kidd and the autobiography by Cecile Gilmer as something that if one is a member of the family then one can depend on others to support and care about one another while making one’s mind more fragile and easy to harm.
ReplyDeleteLily Owens and Cecile Gilmer have very similar backgrounds but different views on the blessing and curses of family. In the excerpt of The Secret Life of Bees, Lily is very descriptive when she speaks. For example,” I considered getting up to turn on the fan but only sat there staring through the panes at the milky-blue sky, a sad, ragged feeling catching hold inside.” This is portraying that Lily is depressed and gloomy. This is how her young childhood family was. She also has very long sentences to symbolize how boring and long her days are. When she was young, she was always working on the peach farms and she got bored like some kids would if they had a bad family. Lily also creates an image in the excerpt to help display how terrible her life is without a family. She says,” Taking a deep breath, I stuffed my mother’s black Mary picture and her photograph into my pocket and started toward the pink house to find August.” This creates a picture in my mind of a girl suffering from the curse of a terrible family. On the other hand, Cecile Gilmer has a different point of view. She tells a biography about herself. Her tone is uplifting and formal because she had a great life when she taken care of. She had a good family and that’s why she is not talking in a depressing tone. Her sentence structure is to the point and short. She wants to deliver the point about having positive family blessings, and she does this by being clear and formal in her writing. Her family is like the lottery, once she was in it and accepted her life was complete like if you win the lottery your life is complete. Both of these pieces show the theme of family in different ways, but still showed the importance of good family blessings.
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In the book, the Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, one of the biggest themes is how family does not only come with blessings, but also with curses. In passage, Lily emphasizes how she feels the emotion inside building up so much they might come out. The curses of her family are the guilt and abuse. Her family blessings are also depicted in this paragraph, because families don’t always have to be the ones who you are blood connected to. This reading also shows the blessings because she really wants everyone to know who she is. In reading B, the author writes about how her own family wasn’t really one. With her mom dead and her dad not there, she really didn’t have a family life. This shows the curses of family because when a family member dies it impacts the family very badly. The reading piece also states that her best friend’s family took her in. Both passages show love and that a true family doesn’t have to be blood related.
ReplyDeleteFamily is a place where people turn to in times of trouble and moroseness. Family is a group that should love you unconditionally. Family is depicted in the two pieces of writing. The first piece, an excerpt from “The Secret Life of Bees,” is about the feelings of Lily, the narrator. It reveals how she feels from a complex family bond. It states in one part of the excerpt, “I imagined August would say,” What’s on your mind, Lily? … tell her every last thing, and then she would explain about my mother.” This reveals that Lily tries to find comfort in August. It seems that to Lily, August symbolizes a mother like figure. Lily, who lost her mother when she was very young, believes that August would do the job of a mother. Lily has lost her mother when she was less than 5 years old leaving her with an abusive father. Lily has no one left that is a true family. If one thinks of the perspective of Lily throughout the text, it shows that Lily tries to find a family like comfort in August. This reveals that everyone needs a family or a person who acts like one. Although the author sets a tone of pain and moroseness, she adds a tone of hope in the end with August. This shows that family has different aspects to it causing both pain and joy. In the second piece of writing, “The People Who Love You When No One Else Will,” is about how the author had no family left, but found a new family. The repetition of “I believe” is used to contrast what she used to believe to what she believes now. She thought she could only trust herself, but now she believes in family. The tone of this passage seems to lead toward the idea that everyone should learn to believe in family. The title of this passage shows us that family can be anyone who loves us when no one else would. These pieces both show family is a blessing. They allow you to find comfort and love. Family is something everyone needs.
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