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Book Report On Cheaper By The Dozen
About the Gilbreth Family
In the novel Cheaper By the Dozen written by Frank Jr Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey is a memoir about their family's style of living. It talks about how the family worked together as a group helping each other out. It also mentions that the family has a family council in which people do different things like for example a few people are supposed to buy things for the family. If shows that a family should be for each other in everything, for example, in the movie and the novel the father sacrificed his own health for his family. The parents are also very protective of their kids, especially the father because when new trends start coming around the parents will not let the join in on them.
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