Support And Happiness In Gary Soto's Looking For Work

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In Gary Soto’s short story “Looking for Work” support, and happiness are the essentials to be a successful family. Those two points goes “hand in hand”, a lot of families in todays society gets ripped apart because they have lack of happiness and support. Happiness is nothing that comes over a day or two, it comes when we are surrounded with people that we love. Support and trust are also something that does not comes over a night, that is something that takes time to build. However, support does not mean that we need to support each other economically, we can support each other in many different ways, like be there for someone when they feel down.

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