Any Known Blood
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Any Known Blood
“Love makes a family” - Gigi Kaeser
Everybody is born with a family, but some are unfortunate to lose their family in the dawn of their lives, unfortunate to lose the warmth and care of a family. They are left with a thirst for love in a drought land of crisis. But nothing can quench their thirst for love, nor can anyone replace the love of a family. We should feel fortunate to have a family. We should feel blessed to have the love of our family members. Any Known Blood is a novel that communicates to us about the importance of having a family and the great value it holds. Family is beyond any race, it is not about mixing different race or living under the same roof but it is the genuine love inside one’s family. In the novel, “Any Known Blood”, the author Lawrence Hill suggest that the love is the root of having an intact family through any crisis.
Langston Cane I does not have the privilege to be with his family and is sold to other master to work on their barn. He lives a dreadful life of a slave but was successful in running away through the Underground Railroad, so a man with no love of a family to begin with struggle having a family of his own. From his memoir that he later gives to his son, we find him talking to himself before abandoning his family to join the John Brown’s raid. He ponders, “I was not made for Oakville. I was not made for marriage. I was not made for church and children and unwavering employment.” (Hill.473) The above citation shows how Langston Cane really feels about having a family even though he loves his wife and his children. It reveals that Langston Cane is not committed to the relationship, not only to his wife but to his children too. At some point it also shows his regret of marrying Matilda. Langston Cane himself is to blame for the crisis the family will go through in the future without him to support them.
Langston Cane II experiences a great deal of hardship when his father leaves him with no...
“Love makes a family” - Gigi Kaeser
Everybody is born with a family, but some are unfortunate to lose their family in the dawn of their lives, unfortunate to lose the warmth and care of a family. They are left with a thirst for love in a drought land of crisis. But nothing can quench their thirst for love, nor can anyone replace the love of a family. We should feel fortunate to have a family. We should feel blessed to have the love of our family members. Any Known Blood is a novel that communicates to us about the importance of having a family and the great value it holds. Family is beyond any race, it is not about mixing different race or living under the same roof but it is the genuine love inside one’s family. In the novel, “Any Known Blood”, the author Lawrence Hill suggest that the love is the root of having an intact family through any crisis.
Langston Cane I does not have the privilege to be with his family and is sold to other master to work on their barn. He lives a dreadful life of a slave but was successful in running away through the Underground Railroad, so a man with no love of a family to begin with struggle having a family of his own. From his memoir that he later gives to his son, we find him talking to himself before abandoning his family to join the John Brown’s raid. He ponders, “I was not made for Oakville. I was not made for marriage. I was not made for church and children and unwavering employment.” (Hill.473) The above citation shows how Langston Cane really feels about having a family even though he loves his wife and his children. It reveals that Langston Cane is not committed to the relationship, not only to his wife but to his children too. At some point it also shows his regret of marrying Matilda. Langston Cane himself is to blame for the crisis the family will go through in the future without him to support them.
Langston Cane II experiences a great deal of hardship when his father leaves him with no...