Comparing Family In Catch The Moon, And Everyday Use

What is family? The word family can be described in many ways. A group of people who share the same DNA. A group of people you love. There are many ways to describe family. The short stories “Two Kinds”, “Chee’s Daughter”, “Catch the Moon”, and “Everyday Use”, all have one thing in common and that is family. They all show he differen family connections. Family connections are how families keep connected with their differences. Anyone can be family. To put it another way, a group made up of friends, parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins can be a family, or a group made up of just friends can be a family. In the story “Two Kinds”, her mother and Auntie Lindo are best friends. Don’t get along but they spend so much time together they are family. Jing-mei and Auntie Lindo’s daughter Waverly, have been as close as sisters because of this and, “In other words, for the most part, we hated
I thought she was snotty.”, in the words of Jing-mei. Their mothers were always comparing them to each other. To put it differently, in “Chee’s Daughter”, Chee considers his wife’s parents as family only because of his wife and daughter. his wife had died earlier in the year and he wants to keep the connection to the Little One’s grandparents but that doesn’t mean he has to like them. In general both stories show how families can be family even when the going's rough. Chee traded food that would keep his in-laws fed over the winter for the Little One when they didn't have any money from their failing business. Jing-mai and her mother stay together even after a big argument they