Motley Crue you Love
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The Motley Crue You Love
Happy families are all alike,
Unhappy families are all unhappy in
There own way.
-From Anna Karenina
By Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910)
Family is something that everyone possesses, weather you feel affection for them or not. They might be biological, sociable, occupational, or just the line of species in which you are classified. Leo Tolstoy and Flannery O'Connor had a contradictory view of family in there writing. Dissimilar to most stories of the time, the two stories did not end with the customary positive type ending but instead with heartbreak, and events that happen in life, such as death and illness. Tolstoy and O'Connor both wrote descriptions completely different from one another, but with a theme of family and life enhanced in both. The two stories discuss the impact of looming death, selfishness, and tragedy. The two stories influence both life and their view of what most think a family is and should be.
People would like to believe that there life in perfect and that there family can do no wrong. People live in an imaginary world, and instead most sweep whatever secrets under the rug and try to ignore the fact that it was ever there...