Friday, December 27, 2013
18.Why Families Fight During Holidays
In
this article by Olga Khazan she explores why families fight during
holidays. She has four main subtitles that she explores throughout her essay.
Her thesis is to prove why families are more prone to fight during Christmas
and the New Year. First she talks about The Narcissism of Small Differences and gives the example of
civil wars. Usually when there is a tight knit community of similar people the
fights are over minuscular differences and according to Sigmund Freud they are
done in order to focus on the things that are different form each other because
they all seek uniqueness. Social allergens according to Joe Palca who wrote a
book on why people get annoyed, repetitive gestures that can cause a big
reaction. The accumulative amount of these annoyances can lead to huge fights. Thirdly
there is the passive aggressions “"Some of
the people being demeaned as passive-aggressive are in fact being extremely
careful not to commit mistakes, a strategy that has been successful for
them," Dr. E. Tory Higgins, director of the Motivation Science Center at
Columbia University, told the New York
Times.”
Lastly there is sibling rivalry that does not end after childhood, actually it
continues until their adulthood even if they do not live with their parents
anymore. Khazan ends her article talking about how to avoid these conflicts and
how to have a truly mery christamas.
Khazan does an exceptional job in proving her
thesis. She uses credible sorces such as Sigmund Freud, Joe Palca, and Dr.E.
Torry Higgins in order to support her ideas. She also is very organized in
exposing her main points. Subtitles are always an effective way to convey
different subtopics in a large essay. She made good use of her language and
used quotes in order to prove her points. Overall this is a very effective
essay because it conveyed its message that was the reasons why there are family
fights and used credible sources to back it up.
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