If you kept your brother or sister or children in a barn, fed them hay, made them run dozens of miles a day, and occasionally gave them a bath by spraying them down with a hose… well, someone would probably call protective services. But if you keep your horse in a nice warm barn, feed them, ride them all over the countryside, and brush and bathe them… well, then they're family.
Funny how that works. But family is different to different people. And to different species. All the human-to-human and human-to-horse relationships differ wildly, making this word very hard to define.
Questions About Family
- Does Sean place any value on family?
- Why does Puck try to keep her family together? Why does Gabe want to leave, and why doesn't he care about the consequences?
- Besides the two main characters, what other families do we meet on the island? What kind of families are they?