Blog 21: Quote Integration

All too often, people can find themselves stressed out and in a bitter disposition with life, parents and family encourage the individual to keep going, but frineds can offer a unique perspective. Writer Chris Fitinolpoulos explains that many young adults escape the pressure fo parental and social authority by turning to their friends. One day Chris found a saying scrawled across a desk from a bored student that read "All I want is a different view." This simple quote explains one of the unique roles that friends can play in life which is being able to offer a new perspecitve on life when. When a child has no where left to turn, they turn to family and friends for something that help them keep going. Friends act as a support to get through the rough times when family may not be around. For instance, when attending college and family is not nearby, friends are there to act as the individual's support and comrade. In the television series Firefly, Mal and his crew find themselves in grim situations and that appear to have no good way out. However, the crew members help keep each other positive and stick together to fight through these tough situations.  Friends will be there for their fellow comrades through the thick and thin while helping to keep each other a float in times of despair.

I still need to find a better way to tie these quotes in with my paper’s thesis. I can find a message that I like, but I am finding it increasingly difficult to tie it back to my main idea. Does anyone have any suggestions?

My thesis is:

The writers of the series Firefly redefine the conventional meaning of family by introducing a group of people that are united for a common cause and function as a family, but are not actually all related by blood.