Dysfunctional Families in B.B and Village By The Sea

Introduction
Both stories B.B and The Village By The Sea are stories where the families in the stories are dysfunctional families. To understand more about the dysfunctional families, the definition of it is that the parents and the children do not fulfill their roles. For the case of the parents, they should be working and caring for their children while for the case of the children, they should be enjoying their childhood.

Similarities
Similarities of course can be found both stories, most importantly the families are dysfunctional and the victims are often the children.

Just like in B.B, where her parents share their secrets with B.B and this was harmful to the child as B.B had to force herself to think like an adult and thus carrying a heavy burden.

While in the Village By The Sea, the victims of the dysfunctional family was Hari and Lila. Father was a drunkard, Mother was invalid due to sickness, this forced Hari and Lila to give up their education and take up the responsibility of looking after their sisters and the family. Hari bringing back income for the family while Lila being the homemaker of the family.

In both stories, the fathers of the similar in some ways as both fathers had left there families to fend for themselves.

Differences
On the whole the condition of B.B's family was somewhat better than that of Hari and Lila's family. Firstly, B.B is very stressed up and carrying heavy burdens but she still had food to eat, good clothes to wear and education. She also did not have to do household chores and work for income unlike Hari. Moreover, B.B's parents were also more "responsible" as compared to Lila and Hari's parents.

Overall, the victim of an dysfunctional family is most of the time children.

A movie by Elvis Presley that portray a kid that comes from a dysfunctional family, Wild in The Country.