Family by Kyle McNaught
Unit
Conflict
Worth
The family stood huddled together.
Though Ammu, Estha and Rahel were allowed to attend the funeral, they were made to stand separately, not with the rest of the family.
Definition
Looking back now, to Rahel it seemed as though this difficulty
that their family had with classification ran much deeper than the
jam-jelly question.
It was the kind of time in the life of a family when something
happens to nudge its hidden morality from its resting place and make it bubble to the surface and float for a while.
Here however it was peacetime and the family in the Plymouth traveled without fear or foreboding.
Blackmail
He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family
would have to pay him not to publish.
Ammu said that there was only one person in the family who was a fit candidate for biographical blackmail and that was Chacko himself.
His family were once-wealthy zamindars who had migrated to Calcutta from East Bengal after Partition.
After six unbearable months of anxiety, to Pappachi's intense disappointment he was told that his moth had finally been identified as a slightly unusual race of a well-known species that belonged to the tropical family Lymantriidae.
Benefit
His family were once-wealthy zamindars who had migrated to Calcutta from East Bengal after Partition.
He wouldn't allow Mammachi or anyone else in the family to use it, or even to sit in it.
Mammachi pasted, in the family photograph album, the clipping from the Indian Express that reported Pappachi's death.
They were a family of Anglophiles.
Almost immediately, the financial slide began, but was artificially buoyed by extravagant bank loans that Chacko raised by mortgaging the family's rice fields around the Ayemenern House.
Like a normal family.
My family will be expecting me.
For a family with London connections.
They were mostly photographs of Lenin and his family.
My husband's family used to own this whole hill.
Of course they did not even remotely suspect that the missile, when it was fired, the one that would annihilate the family's Good Name forever, would come from a completely unexpected quarter.
He assumed, not without reason, that he would be the first in his
family to follow in his mother's wake.
Mammachi said it ran in their family.
Her family lived in London.
Of his family Margaret Kochamma knew very little.
hierarchy
Without her family's consent.
Without his family's knowledge.
Ammu was incoherent with rage and disbelief at what was happening to her--at being locked away like the family lunatic in a medieval household.
He started by recounting to Mammachi how much her family had done for his.
Mammachi, though annoyed at his drunkenness, wasn't averse to listening to bardic stories about herself and her family's Christian munificence.
She had defiled generations of breeding (The Little Blessed One, blessed personally by the Patriarch of Antioch, an Imperial Entomologist, a Rhodes Scholar from Oxford) and brought the family to its knees.
He had been educated by her family, in the Untouchables' school started by her father, Punnyan Kunju
He was trained to be a carpenter by her family, the house he lived in was given to his grandfather by her family.
He owed everything to her family.
As though something in their family genes had bestowed on them compulsory bumps that appeared randomly on different parts of their bodies.
More were sold to keep the family in food and clothes.
By the time Chacko emigrated to Canada, the family's only income came from the rubber estate that adjoined the Ayemenern House and the few coconut trees in the compound.
A Family Friend who happened to be
going to Madras.
For now he left the little family alone.
And for the little family curled up and asleep on a blue cross-stitch counterpane?
Her family (husband and three children) was already eating.
I could lose everything. My Job. My family. My livelihood. Everything.
My dearest Papa, Koh-i-noor is upset because her family seems to neither understand nor care about her well-being ...
No one else from the family was there.
"Mother"
142
"Father"
109
"Twins"
74