It's Love Without Hesitation

In the book, They Poured Fire on us From the Sky, I feel as if the author portrays “family” in several different ways; whether it’s true blood relations to one another that makes up a single family or just the people within their village making up a family, both are being treated as the same type of relationship. I really feel like the author depicts greatly on how family doesn’t always mean they are siblings, cousins, aunts or uncles; it can just be the wide meaning of loving each other and caring for those who you love.

In this story, it is evident that the young boys of the village are being shown as brothers and when one doesn’t stick with the bunch—it is frown upon because family means forever being by each other’s side. They will always eat dinner together and go to each true family’s houses at supper and share laughs with one another as real brothers would do. They experience pain and harsh times with each other and that is what the author wants to show is how each day of struggle, brings each one of them closer together as a family.

The aspects of family coming from the author is simply just what I explained; being together and growing as individuals, sharing love and bravery with one another is what a family is about. This village is completely all family orientated, but at some moments, it’s not always clear to the reader until all these stories really come together and form a whole loving relationship through each character’s story coming from the author.

The relationship with my family shows just the same pieces, but in different ways. My family comes together for dinner, supports one another in everything they do, and stands up for each other when one falls down. Comparison to the story; I see the village working as a single person. Culture differences are extremely out of range from where I sit and what I know as a family, but that’s where it becomes interesting in these stories; I’m taking in a whole new life’s perspective and living in a completely different world than these characters and how the author illustrates his young life.

Families have responsibilities, duties, morals, values, and aspects, which may or may not relate to another’s family that probably might seem the same, but could actually be strongly diverse in numerous ways. What I mean by that, is essentially everyone has their own story behind what is being said or what is shown; but at the end of the day, family will always mean one thing to me, and that is loving those certain people in your life without any hesitations. Blood relation or not; sometimes love is more than what we think it is and this book, They Poured on Us From the Sky, I perceive that meaning being reflected.