Immature Ingratitude
Throughout life one is taught that the family is the pure substance of our occasionally cruel society. A family, therefore, is a shield or a bubble if you will, against hatred of the unmerciful world. But how genuine and benevolent are families? One can even argue that the family can be threatening and ungrateful. When examining an essay by Barbara Ehrenreich entitled "Are Families Dangerous?" we find ourselves drawn into her observations that a family can be a "personal hell" (Pg. 2203). In contrast, the poem by Robert Hayden entitled "Those winter Sundays" lets us examine a softer side of the family.Mostly in youth we are accustomed to feelings of ungratefulness because things are expected to be done for us. Throughout life people experience deeds of ingratitude that they themselves have displ
Ehrenreich, Barbara, "Are Families Dangerous?" Reading Critical, Writing Well 5th Ed. Bedford/Martin: Cooper, 1999. 131-33 Examples of ingratitude had been plentiful toward my father since my mother had passed, but none that sit so deeply in my memory as Christmas Day 2000. You see, before my mother had passed one can say that my family was upper-middle class. After her passing my father began to struggle between mortgage payments, loans, college, food etc. and no insurance to fall back on. I can recall the cold and snowy morning I first walked to the Christmas tree to see what "Santa" had brought, yet to my amazement there was hardly anything there. A few toys some clothes but all in all nothing. I marched upstairs and without thinking twice began yelling at my father. We didn't speak for a couple days thereafter unt
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