The portion of my paper that I need assistance on is relating my topic to the real world in a non-listing format. 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 functoin as a family, but are not related by blood. I am trying to show that the crew of Serenity functions much like a family does. There are roles that alternate between characters and there is the deep level of connection between the characters, which are two traits of a family. The last point of my paper would be to validate these two traits between the real world and Firefly in order to convince the reader that these groups could also be considered a “family”. The harder part is that I am finding it hard to think of a reason of why people should care about this message. Should I continue with this thesis or aim for something like “Home is where the heart is” type of thing? Maybe the importance that these groups are considered family is so that people who are away from their families realize that there are actually more “families” they are in just where they are at. Like a college student who is from out of state or another country; there is a sense of home and a group of people that care right where they are much like a family was for their younger years. Well if anyone has any ideas please feel free to post them to help me out. Thanks in advance.
To prove that the idea is important you may want to introduce real world examples that make the reader consider their own sense of stability in their "family". What if they had no family and found solice in a new group of people who share a common interest. However I do think the the "Home is where the heart is" approach may be slightly easier to extend on.
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