{"id":343,"date":"2023-04-12T21:17:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T21:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/?page_id=343"},"modified":"2024-12-05T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T18:35:50","slug":"purpose","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/purpose\/","title":{"rendered":"Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose, Themes and Conflicts<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s opening of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/books\/edition\/Anna_Karenina\/WhwZEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=1&amp;printsec=frontcover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anna Karenina<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Universal themes are embedded in all families.\u00a0 When a couple unites, starts a family, grows, and ages, conflicts develop.\u00a0 How conflicts manifest themselves and become resolved or unresolved are unique in each family.\u00a0 I want to explore universal family themes and how they were uniquely manifested in the Wills family.\u00a0 In the post section of this site, I&#8217;ll try to answer my own questions about individuals and ancestors who struggled with the conflicts that ensued and how they tried to resolve them one hundred years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some of the\u00a0 universal themes that broadly affected the Wills Family:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>ndependence and self-sustaining versus dependency as manifested in leaving home &amp; homeland, emigration, family cohesiveness versus separation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>S<\/strong>ocial class in 19th century America, working class poverty, labor, economics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I<\/strong>mmigration and cultural adaptation in 19th and 20th century America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>R<\/strong>eligious zealotry and religious intolerance manifested in a Protestant- Roman Catholic tension pervasive in 19th and early 20th centuries in USA.\u00a0 The single-mindedness of adults caught in religious frameworks established in religious orthodoxy and the bible.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And here are the unique conflicts that greatly affected individuals in the Wills family:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>D<\/strong>isinheritance, abandonment, detachment, social isolation versus engagement<\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>lcohol Addiction<\/p>\n<p><strong>De<\/strong>pression, Loss of self-identity, loss of purpose<\/p>\n<p><strong>L<\/strong>oss of family through death and disinheritance<\/p>\n<p><strong>F<\/strong>amily Disintegration, children of alcoholics,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose, Themes and Conflicts &#8220;Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.&#8221; Leo Tolstoy&#8217;s opening of Anna Karenina. Universal themes are embedded in all families.\u00a0 When a couple unites, starts a family, grows, and ages, conflicts develop.\u00a0 How conflicts manifest themselves and become resolved or unresolved are unique in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/purpose\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Purpose&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/343\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francoamericangravy.com\/wills\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}