Question

short paragraph about family ties

Answer 1

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Throughout history, family has always been very important to people in many different aspects. The significance of family shines through even when struggles surface. When faced with a difficulty, such as disease or death, many turn towards a familial relationship to ease the tension. Many obstacles may arise, but it can be overcome with the help of family. N. Scott Momaday depicts his close family ties through his writings in "The Way to Rainy Mountain," where he explores his relationship between himself and his grandmother. This displays the type of relation that can be found between closely tied family members. 
        
        
        Many authors consider family to be the most significant of all relationships.Whether it be in a novel, newspaper article, or essay written for a magazine or newspaper, the reader is able to see that every family relationship is unique and has something different to offer as well.Sometimes friends can seem as close as family. Through the eyes of Roger Angell, one can see the importance of friendship sometimes overrides family. 
        
        No matter who you consider your family to be, you are always going to have someone to lean on when times get tough. This is seen very well in the article "Hard Lines: Life in rerun, now playing near you" by Roger Angell. "Hard Lines" is about Angell's relationship with his best friend Walker Field, as he reminisces about past memories with his friend over the phone to Field's daughter, Cally. He is doing this for her because Field died at the young age of 38 from pneumonia and she realized now, in her fifties, that the memory of her father was very vague and wanted to hear some nostalgic stories about her father from someone who knew him best. Even though Cally and Roger had not talked or seen each other for many years, she knew that calling Roger would be the best person to talk about her father with since the two were so close, almost like brothers. These two are just a few of the many that form a bond that makes them so close, they consider each other family, even though they are not blood related. 
        
        As seen with Angell and his best friend from his earlier years, they considered themselves to be family, even though they were not blood related. But with every type of 'family' you have, it almost always seems like someone will always find something wrong with family or someone to be angry at, no matter if they have a good reason to be angry or not. This is something that happens all the time in families and can be seen in Dominick Dunne's article, "A Death in the Family". In "A Death in the Family", Dunne talks about how the recent death of his brother, John, from prostate cancer, made him reminisce about how before his diagnosis of Johns cancer they had a very up and down relationship that hadn't always been the greatest. For the most part, they did have a good relationship but after becoming business partners in the film industry, it took a toll on the two of them that eventually led them to end working together. With many other factors as well, they didn't speak for many years but with John's cancer diagnosis changed everything for both. The diagnosis made them realize that all the fights and grudges they had from years earlier didn't matter anymore because with the news of something big like cancer, makes you realize that there are more important things in life than any grudges you may have had from years before.