Family teaches compassion, perseverance, introduces hardship and how to overcome it. Though the anatomy of families may differ, the love is always the same. The extent of what family is branches much further than the simple genetic relation; for many, family is neighborhoods, communities, and friends. The intricacies of family life build the foundation for love, and love often shines in some of the most stark, impossible situations. Unfortunately, that is not a guarantee, as can be seen in the Sniper.
The protagonist is a member of two extremely powerful families, his genetic one and the military. The main character was in a shootout against the opposition that once was part of his army before the split. He shot a man, and won the shootout.…show more content… ¨A meadowlark sitting on a fencepost hunched his wings and flew. I kicked through the dust of the road¨ (Stafford 406). Only when the relationship forms between the narrator and Evangeline, does the reader feel something other than discontent. The love that shines through their relationship changes the mood of the writing, and an image of a brilliant, warm light dazzling light through a sea of gray is articulated to the reader. Their love being the light, and the gray being the town. Evangeline's complicated family and love for the boy conflict, and from that comes the exciting beginning and disappointing end. The environment in which the protagonist lives can cause immense struggles. Often the grueling circumstance is family, however, occasionally its…show more content… She struggles between the child in her, and the women she is soon to become. When she hears her parents fight, her eyes open to the world in which she has been living. In the story, her childhood is represented by beautiful marigolds. ¨[...] a brilliant splash of sunny yellow against the dust- Miss Lottie’s marigolds¨ (Collier 410). They pop out against the dark, barren dirt that represents the racism. Her child-like love was built by her family, and brings innocent joy to the awful place she lives. Her family and the love in it combined and created her- an exception to the society that rejects her and her
