2. Family in Television
● In the hit television show Breaking
Bad, Walter White goes to great
lengths to leave money for his
family in case he looses his battle
against terminal cancer.
● American Dad is a comedy show
of how a small town family copes
with the day to day challenges of
keeping an alien and talking fish in
their household.
● In the show Weeds, Nancy Botwin
sells marijuana to keep her family
intact after loosing her husband to
a heart attack. It also shows a
strong family unit that sticks
through tough times.
3. Family in Animation
● “The Incredibles” is a
animated movie of a family
with superpowers that grow
closer together while
fighting a vengeful villian.
● Happy Feet is about the
difficulty of trying to be
accepted by your family
and peers for being
different.
● The animated movie
Finding Nemo is about a
young clown fish that
retaliates against his father
and ends up kidnapped.
With the help of another
fish, the dad re-unites his
family.
4. Family in Film
● Yours, Mine and Ours is a 1968 film
of two large, incredibly different
families merging and coming to
understand their differences after a
long line of bouts.
● Ben Stiller plays a man who tries to
get acceptance in to his to-be brides
family in Meet the Parents.
● The Parent Trap is a film of two twin
girls, separated at birth by their
parents, who later meet and go
through great lengths to get their
divorced parents together again.
5. Family in poetry
● Goblin Market by Christina
Rossetti is a narrative poem of two
sisters. The eldest sister Lizzie
puts herself in harms way to save
her younger sister Laura, who eats
the forbidden goblin fruit and is at
the brink of death. It shows what
lengths a sister would go through
to save her only family.
● The Lonely Pipes of Scotland
show that families can transcend
generations and the strong bond
one can have with their ancestors.
● One Sister I have in our House by
Emily Dickinson Shows the strong
connection she had with her sister.
I shows a closeness family
members have.
6. Family in Painting
● Family of Saltibanques by
Picasso involves a odd circus
family. It shows that family can
come in many different forms.
● American Gothic represents a
humble union between husband
and wife.
● Christ in the House of His
Parents depicts young Jesus in
Joseph's workshop with an injury
in hand. It shows the nurturing
values of a family with as they
offer their aid.
