Family Dynamics

 Hello everyone and welcome to this week's Top 5 Wednesday blog post. World Family Day was on the 15th of May and so this weeks prompt is about family dynamics in a book. So in this Top 5 Wednesday blog post, I will be looking at some of my favourite families from the books I have read. Obviously, by family, we do not exclusively mean related by blood and so some of the books on this list may be a group of friends who made a good family. Anyway, let's get straight to this weeks post about family dynamics and my favourite families in the different books I have read.

1. The Fault in Our Stars

Firstly, we have the Fault in Our Stars by John Green, which is an incredible book. All the teenagers with cancer in this book seem to have two families which is lovely. Firstly, they have their actual families who are extremely supportive of them and want to see them have the best lives possible. This is obviously an important element that is included in all families as parents do not want their children to be harmed.  On top of that, the characters in this book also have their family of friends who are all going through similar things and are supportive of each other which is lovely to see.

2. To Kill a Mockingbird

Next, this is one of my favourite novels written by the incredible Harper Lee. The Atticus family is a great family which is a good role model for all other families. Everyone knows who is in control, they are all happy and love each other and they are all self-dependant and have been brought up to be the best people they can be which is quite good. Therefore, I like this family because it just seems to be the dream family where they all get on together and are more like friends than family members for the most part of the story.

3. Of Mice and Men

This is another American novel and this time we are looking at the family of the friends George and Lenny. Not only there are some family connections between the two men, but they are simply good friends. Lenny most of the time seems an inconvenience because of his behaviour and is constantly getting himself and George kicked out of jobs. However, they always stick together and support each other right to the very end which is just great. They are good role models for any friends and how to support each other.

4. Grand Openings Can Be Murder

The next book is another example of great family support because Felicity has lost a husband, started a new business which then soon became a murder scene. It is just amazing the amount of family and friend support Felicity got during this story and showed how she not only had her real family but also her family of friends who were all great and helped each other out. Most importantly, everyone helped Felicity through the things she was going through in the story which is great and they all had Felicities best interest at heart.

5. An Inspector Calls

Finally, we have An Inspector Calls. The Birling family was quite the opposite of a perfect family because Eric and Sheila did not get the support they needed and were not treated very nice. Some may say that Eric and Sheila have been brainwashed however I quite liked this family. The Birling family were a great example of an upper-middle-class capitalist family who had all the luxuries which, to be honest, is my ideal family.

Anyway, that is all for this week's Top 5 Wednesday post and I hope you enjoyed it. Please feel free to comment below what you thought of this post and what some of your favourite families from books are. Please do look around this blog at all the other blog posts we have to offer and please do share this link with your friends to help get this post out there. I look forward to writing the next post.

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