Most people realize that blood doesn’t make a family, love does. But, is it possible to still be a family but have a very faint or no remembrance of that person? Could someone still be your family and impact you so much, even though the one thing you remember is a book, song, activity, or chore they did with you? Make Lemonade by Virginia Euwer Wolff follows the story of teen mom Jolly, with fourteen year old LaVaughn as her only help, support, and family besides her two children. There are many examples of family members: meaning that are no longer remembered or only few memories remain, blood or no blood. Through the relationships between LaVaughn, Jolly, Jeremy, and LaVaughn’s Mom, the readers can see that family has the most significant impact even if they are a faint memory.
Jolly has lots of examples of people, family, that she doesn’t remember that well, or perhaps forgotten completely. One example would be her Grandma. Jolly tells LaVaughn one day of her Grandma, the woman who took her in.
“‘I mean a big-G Gram, a lady took care of me,’ she says this time.
‘Put me back together all the time.
Hugged me, preached to me, put me in bed.
That kind of Gram.
She put me a vitamin pill on the table every breakfast.
She had socks clean in the drawer for me, my own towel.’” (Wolff 155)
Jolly doesn’t have that much memory of her Grandma. She only
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Even though Jeremy will completely forget, the impact from LaVaughn will be forever. From the moment Jeremy takes LaVaughn’s hand the first day, a life long impact on both of them would happen. LaVaughn’s impact on Jeremy starts off strong when she teaches him how to make a bed and scrub the floor, and even go to the bathroom by himself (Wolff 40). Throughout the book, LaVaughn and Jeremy’s connection grows stronger and they start to impact each other