Family Reflection In The Life Of The Grape Community

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The Grape family lives in Endora, Iowa, ghost town, where they farmed, run down, old and rural community. Demographically, the grape family lives in a small town of a population of 2000 people. The community is very much close up together, everyone is familiar with each other within the town, it is also known to be a town of where, displacement do not occur. When individuals moved to the city, they family gets established for a longer period of time. People stayed there and did not leave when they grow up. People in that town locally owned businesses and others tried to grow their own food(agriculture). Mostly people that lived in this town were predominantly white, little to no diversity. In that town they were criminal justice system, which Arnie was …show more content…

There is also Ellen, who wants attention but also embossed by her mother’s situation. Amy in this situation feels stuck. They are discriminated against because of Bonnie, for example, when Arnie was caught climbing the town water tower and when the police came they took him to the police station and as the mother went there to get Arnie, everyone just stared at her, taking pictures, giggling etc. it showed low value to the community. However, even though the family face difficulties, they are still going after so much, Gilbert and Amy of very responsible and selfless people, there are strengths that kept them together as a family. They is safety in the home and were adaptable family. They have movie nights, basically spent free time together, they had table time, where they would bring the table to where their mother was. They also have a strong sense of family bond, role division. They take good care of Arnie in anyway possible. They sacrificed their own needs in some way and understand the health of Arnie is limited. They highly depended on each other and had sense of play and humor when they were together. But there were also weaknesses in the family, the communication tense between family members, knowing

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