When someone talks about family what comes to your mind? The word family is just a simple six letter word but so complicated because it has a different meaning to everyone, what it means to you might not be what it means to me. The dictionary defines family as a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children but is that all it takes to be called a family. In the Gary Soto piece, we saw how when he wanted to go the pool and sister wanted to go to that he was willing to put her first when by paying for her instead of keeping his money
The members of a family put other members of the family before themselves. In the year 2012 close to my birthday my mum and dad were involved in accident on their
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I stayed with her and we talked but she never wanted to talk about herself but about me and how I was and every single detailed that had happened to me while I was away, I went to visit my dad next and while he was in better shape than my mum he still wasn’t his best. I came back home in August and shortly after my return my dad was released, he had spent two months in a hospital bed and my mum was going to be spending more but it was good to have my dad back. We all had to pitch in to help him with bringing things for me and helping him stand to hold the crushes he had because his leg was still in a cast. I visited my mum in hospital every day that I could and was glad when she came home early September but the whole family reunion was going to be a short one because by late October I would be leaving with my brother to the U. S A, we were all supposed to leave together but because of the accident my parent won’t be able to make it and although they could have allowed us to come with them the next month my parents didn’t want me and my brother to miss a month of school and even though I told them It was fine with me to