A Shared Problem

All families are essentially the same, because they all experience important events such as death and disagreement. Every family has different ideologies and cultural backgrounds, but they all function the same way. Family members fight and argue, but that is what made them family. No family is perfect, but everyone is still forced to put up with each other. Families experience the same events no matter where they are.
Every family, at one point or another, experiences a death that greatly affected the welfare of the family members. Cory accepts Raynell at Troy’s funeral “You go on in the house and change them shoes…so we can go to Papa’s funeral” (245). Troy causes his family to fall apart after having an illegitimate daughter with another woman. Troy’s death is the key catalyst which lures Cory back to his house and sees his little sister. Through his little sister, Cory is able to join his family once again. He forgives his father’s actions and accepts the new family member. In The Moth, Abuelita’s death causes a change in the narrator’s personality, “endings are inevitable, they are necessary for rebirths” (276). The death of her grandmother causes a change in how the narrator sees people. She usually separates herself from her family and does her own things. Though, during Abuelita’s death, the narrator wishes to be with her mother, an act which would never happen with her old self. Gretta remembers her ex-lover, “And when I was only a week in the convent he died and he was buried in Oughterard” (189). In this case, the death actually tears a family apart. Like any other family, Gabriel and Gretta experience a death that forger changes their lives. The memory of Michael makes Gretta questions her marriage, creating a rip in ...

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... major consequences. It establishes Charlie as an enemy to Marion and separates father and daughter. The narrator from The Moth fights with her family so much that she “was used to the whipping by then” (273). It seems like the narrator is singled out by every other member of her family. The constant whipping and punishment only successfully drive her further away emotionally. Her family disagreements about her personality only build a wall between her and her family. Family disagreements only further strain family relationship.
All families are essentially the same because they all go through the same types of problems such as death and family squabble. Every family has to go through this at least once throughout their times. There is no family that is completely perfect. Instead, the fighting and the imperfects in a family make them more similar to one another.