Alice has been married and divorced twice and has two grown children, Kim (32) and Jonathan (30) from her first marriage. Alice grew up in a predominantly white neighborhood just south of Phoenix. Her parents John and Mary have owned a small business in downtown Phoenix for the last 40 years. Her father spent long hours at the family business and had little interaction with the children. Child rearing was primarily left up to Alice’s mother, Mary.
She travels back home by van to her mother and other relatives who feel she is not being traditional enough. Flora, born and raised in Arusha, one of Tanzania’s biggest cities, doesn’t come from a traditional family but decided to marry into one. After marrying her husband, they moved to Kinjungo, a city with no running water, electricity or plumbing; it’s a 40 minute walk just to get water. She has lived in Kinjungo for 11 years with no contact with her family. She lives a Kinjungo lifestyle that requires her husband to be a hunter and gatherer and he just relies on the earth for food and water.
Her whole life she was kept to the family and isolated from society because of the family’s idea of being better than everyone. When Emily’s father dies she tells everyone that he wasn’t dead, “she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will” (Faulkner p# 240). Emily couldn’t change and tried to hold on. The character Miss Brill is isolated in a different manner. Every Sunday Miss Brill would go to the park and “Only two people shared her special seat”(Mansfield p# 276).
He is the primary breadwinner for the family. The mother LK is retired from her previous job due to disability, but works part time for the public school system preparing food for the lunch programs at various schools. She also helps at the automotive shop doing customer service work when needed. The children are all about 4 years apart and have only loose bonds due to the age differences. The oldest son TS no longer lives at home and works construction and is not married.
Most workaholics are in marriages that have been going on for many years, and this lack of attention has been hurting their wife for majority of the relationship. Women claim that they have to raise their children alone. Emotional connections are lost when fathers work too much. “My husband works too much and it used to bother my child as he was growing up. He understands now because he is a little older, but just as I was, he was always worried that something happened to his father.
(BODY) (KEY POINT) Alice Munro depicts childhood attitude of the narrator when she remembers her childhood. (SUPPORTING DETAILS) She has an eight years old friend Steve Gauley, drowned. It seemed a worse shame that there was no mother, no grandmother, aunt or even sister to received Steve Gauley and give him his due respect. He has a father who saw Steve as an accident to his life. The funeral held in their house and her mother did most of the arranging of Steve funeral.
Dealing with hardship is something that has evolved into a second nature for me and my family. As far as I can remember, my family always struggled financially: My father lost his job when I was 9 years old, and he failed to get a proper job ever since. Though my family has struggled a great deal and is still struggling, my family always stuck by its moral values and an aim to get the best possible education for me and my siblings so we can overcome our problems. I was born in Karachi, Pakistan and I lived there for 15 years, before I moved to the United States in July of 2008. Moving to the United States was not an easy decision, though my mom side of the family lived in the United States, but my parents made this choice solely because they wanted better future for me,my sister, and my brother.
However, as evident in both novels, this traditional middle-class family structure does not conform to the conditions that the characters are faced with during the industrialization period. In “Mary Barton”, for instance, Mary lives only with her father after her mother and brother died. Mary’s brother died of hunger due to their very poor living conditions caused by the economic depression (Corey, 1). Mary’s father, John, then becomes involve in the workers’ union to expose the poverty stricken people, and leaves Mary "more of her own way than is common in any rank with girls of her age" (Gaskell, 23). She is without a mother to guide her in life, and to arrange marriage of any sort.
Throughout his life, Housman faced many hardships. He was frail, often sickly, very devoted to his mother, and alienated from his father. (Magill 922) The loss of his mother at age 12 shattered his childhood and left him with tremendous feelings of loneliness, from which he never fully recovered. His father began to drink as a result of his mother's death and began a long slip into poverty. When Housman went to college, he had a deep and lasting friendship with Moses Jackson.
My Dad was the sole provider in our household but we always made it. My Mom is a housewife and I have two sister and a younger brother. Yes, we had tough times where my Dad lost his job, he has been on unemployment several times but never accepted welfare and an option. My father believes a man should work to provide for his family, being on welfare is not acceptable for him. He feels ashamed to raise his kids on Government money.