The Extraordinary Bond of Sisterhood
“Since your sister moved out, aren’t you excited to have your own car without having to share?” This past year many friends and family have frequently asked me this question. I have not been able to fully answer it until now. Though she has been gone over a year, I often find myself walking into the empty room where my sister Fallon and I once spent countless nights lying on the small twin bed, watching movies, laughing and even crying. The room that was once beige and full of leopard and animal print is slowly being transformed into a light yellow. My little sister, Brittany, is trying to alter Fallon’s mess and chaos into her new room; it will take some getting used to. As it is, I still go into her room to borrow something only to see an empty closet looking back at me. Whether Fallon is at home or living somewhere else, she will always be the older sister that I look up to and want to emulate.
When I see the closet looking back at me, with just a graduation robe hanging in it, I can not help but stop to reminisce. In my old house my sister and I shared a room and my little sister had her own room because she was the baby. I lived with my big sister in our room for the first eight years of my life. We shared a closet, bunk- beds, a dresser, and toys. When we moved into our current house it was a huge adjustment. I had to learn to sleep without the comforting thought of Fallon underneath me, or being able to giggle and be silly until Mom or Dad came in and got angry. When we got our new rooms, Fallon, Brittany and I started our tradition of knocking on the wall to each other before falling asleep, this was our way of saying goodnight. Now I have amended knocking on the wall to talking on the phone every night. I have dealt with separating into different rooms, but splitting into different households has proven to be more of a challenge.
Fallon came home for a long weekend. I was glad to see her but I was not anxious for her mess and disarray to occupy my room.
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An extremely common theme from my interviews was the tension felt from family and peers. From very early on children are taught what is expected from them as either a male or female. Now at first, this might seem like a simple concept of just how someone raises their children, but there is more to it than that. Britney, during my interview with her, said how she felt that “gender expectations are just stereotypes.” This is a great example of gender stereotyping through socialization. Tension is caused by my interviewees’ differing views from the people they have tension with whether it is family or friends. The older of my two interviewees, Ahmed and Bernadean, had a stronger sense of tension between them and family members. Sexism,
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