The Importance of Family In Fiction
What big ideas can you think of that movies, books, plays, tv shows, comics and whatnot have in common? Sure love is one, life is one, matter is one, but there’s also one special idea, and that’s family. Every person (and animal) in the world is part of a family that started generations upon generations ago. You can find out great things about yourself just by looking at your family. My parents are immigrants from Lebanon who came from big families. That especially gives me a ton of cousins! I had found out that my paternal grandfather ran a printing press, my maternal grandfather was a mason, my paternal aunt used to work at a computer repair hotline, my maternal uncle is a professional hair stylist, and that one of my cousins is a writer/director (which is one of the things I want to be). Now enough about my family, let’s just talk about family “in general”. My drawing of the Pearsons, from This Is Us If you’ve read many books, or have seen many movies/ TV shows