Family can be both a source of pain and of love from "summary" of The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Family, oh Lord, family. They can be the ones who raise you up to the heavens with their love, or they can be the ones who drag you down to the depths of hell with their cruelty. It's a strange thing, the way blood ties can bind you and break you all at once. In my life, family has been a tangled mess of pain and love. Mama, she was the one who brought me into this world, the one who should have protected me from harm. But instead, she turned a blind eye to the suffering I faced at the hands of my so-called father. She stood by and let him beat me down, day after day, as if my pain meant nothing to her. And so, I learned early on that family could be a source of deep, unrelenting pain. But then there was Nettie, my sister. Oh Nettie, she was the light in my darkness, the one who showed me what love could...
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