Family

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A wooden figure pushes a wheelbarrow of bricks beside three figures resting in a green hammock.
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The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Jane Austen

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Our interpretation.

The speaker asserts that the junior sibling is obliged to carry costs of the elder's enjoyment, an arrangement that favours the older one.

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Painterly small wooden figures grouped beside a gold ring on a worn wooden surface.
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In this life, family is the most precious gift we are given, the most sacred. Turn your back on them and that is when you truly have nothing.
What it means May contain spoilers.

Our interpretation.

Family is presented as life's most precious and sacred gift; rejecting them, the speaker warns, leaves a person with nothing of real worth.

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