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

Subject of Family in Lessings Flight, Hughes M opposite to Son, Kincaids Girl and Adrienne Richs Poem, MercedFamily as defined by Websters College Dictionary screw be one of many different people. Family can be your parents, spouse, children, brother, sister, grandmother, uncle, any blood carnal knowledge, or even people who are not blood link that share that common bond (Webster 475). My definition of family is similar to Websters, but I feel that there is more to it than just being a blood relative or close friend. A persons actions, beliefs, and morals play a major role in deciding who makes it into that family group. Family becomes more of an supposition or feeling, like love or hate, than just who a person is or where they fall in your family tree. There have been people that I have considered immediate than family just by their actions, even though they were nowhere near related to me. Fortunately, I have not had any blood relation family members make me handle they were not in my family (maybe my older sister when we were younger, but that doesnt count). While reading from Children and Families in our text, I came across many readings that I feel were stimulate in many different ways by what the author 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 individually other. They were the short story Flight by Doris Lessing and the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes. There was also one 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 lean 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 is to confirm the family together, throughout anything that happens. While reading through the writings from Children and Families in our textbook, I see many different connotations of what family means either to the generator, or the meaning that the writer is trying 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 stand at what family has become to some people and that it needs to be changed back 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.