One Family

Author's Note: This piece is about a book that I read called One Summer by David Baldacci.  In this response I will be discussing family.  I will try to use irony, litotes, antithetical patterns, repetitive initial patterns, and climatic patterns.

Families are always cooperative.  Why wouldn't you love them when they don't seem to care or see how everything is different?  That's what Mikki thought when her family began to fall apart.  Sometimes life isn't perfect, which gives families all the more reason not to be.  There are days where you would kill your siblings, but you know that you would kill for them any day.  Family is irreplaceable.  They are a part of you, and without them life wouldn't be the same.

In a family, everyone has something in common; they are connected in one way or another.  Family is not the same when someone is melancholy, lost, or gone.  These people are a part of you. Some days life will be hard on you, but your family will always be there to support you; they feel what you are feeling and they may even know you more than you know yourself.  The people in your family are pieces of a puzzle that make up you.  Without them you wouldn't be you.  They are a support system.

Besides always being at your side, they care for you in other ways.  Home is where the family is.  When you're away from them too long, you feel homesick -- with them too long you get annoyed.  I guess that's why they say there's no place like home.  They provide comfort and safety.  A safe haven.  Your family is a blessing that just keeps giving.

Another minor thing that families bring that you can't get everywhere in the world is joy.  There will be many people that you meet in life for many different reasons, and not all of them will be kind or willing to laugh along with you.  Some won't cheer you up or help you laugh it off.  Family will.  They'll cheer with you, they'll make you laugh just because they are family.  Happiness isn't rare, but the elation that family emits is.  They are rays of love that light up your world.

A family is an unique group of people that are connected to you.  They make you laugh, they make you cry, they help you forgive, the help you forget; through it all, they are there.  Never will they cease to love you.  Each one is different, because there is one for everyone in the world.  Family comes first.  After all, "family is the most important thing in the world." -Princess Diana