Essay About Brother Carlos And Sister Alex

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The purpose of this paper is to show the communication climate between my two
family members.The two family members I am going to be doing my paper on is my
brother Carlos and my sister Alex. Carlos can be very supportive at most times, he can
also be clever, but he also tends to be a bit stubborn. If anybody needs help with
something, or they need a shoulder to cry on, Carlos will be there for them. He knows just
what to say and is able to make someone laugh when they dont even feel like smiling.
Alex is a very dependable person, she will not ever let you down and keeps her word
whenever she makes a promise to someone. The downside to all of this is that she stresses
so much over other people and puts them before herself which causes her to have metal
breakdowns every once in awhile. Carlos and Alex have only known each other for two
years; because two years ago, she was adopted into our family. A little after her sixteenth
birthday. The relationship between Carlos and Alex are stronger than one would think if
one of the siblings were adopted. They both get along better than Carlos and I ever did. I
personally cant really tell what made those two close in a matter of a few months, but I do
believe it was the fact that Carlos lived with our father when my parents got divorced
when I was 8 and I lived with my mother. Carlos and I werent reunited until my our
mother got remarried and Carlos wanted to come live with our mother instead. Shortly
there after since our mother couldnt have children anymore, she decided to adopt Alex.
When she first came to live with us she didnt really talk to anyone except Carlos, since
they had both experienced a similar life prior to the adoption. If one didnt know any
better, they would probably think Carlos and Alex were faternal twins since they act so
much alike and they think so much alike as well. The two are just about inseperable. The
spend the majority of their day together until it is time to do homework and off to bed.
Alex had a performance in her theatre class a few months after she started going to
the same school I did. It was Romeo And Juliet. She had the lead of Juliet and she had
been practicing for months on her part. The only person out of all of family that really
spent time helping her practice her lines was Carlos. Alex was really freaked out come
opening night of the play. My mom,stepdad, and I kept telling her not to be nervous and
that she would be fine, Carlos kept telling her, go ahead and be nervous and to put all that
nervous energy into her part. This was also the time though that she was still a little iffy
with our family. It wasnt until than that she realized that Carlos was there to help her. She
had come to recognition to Carlos and his help.
Carlos had been in a bit of a depression for a little while before he graduated from
high school. All he did for weeks on end though was sit around the house and mope, he
didnt go out with his friends like he normally did, and he would hardly ever eat. At that
point he also started fighting with everybody in the house. Even the smallest thing would
set him off on a angry rampage to where he would throw things in his room and punch a
hole in the wall. It wasnt very pretty, at all. The entire family tried getting him to calm
down and out of his rut, but his wall that he had up just wouldnt budge. It wasnt until I
ended up in the hopsital after a seizure did he snap out of his mood for a little while. When
my stepdad, mom, Alex were sitting next to my bed in the room, Carlos came barging in
and started throwing all sorts of questions asking if I was ok and such. He even started
crying. Alex asked him what the matter was and why was he being so emotional. Carlos
told her that since I had been in the hospital so much prior to than and that he had seen me
have so many seizures lately, he felt helpless and was mad at himself that he couldnt do
anything to help or even stop my seizures. He went on to say that his friends had also been
giving him hell about the epileptic fits they saw me having at school. They thought it was
kind of funny that my body convulsed the way it did and didnt think of it as a big deal
since they saw me shrug it off like it was nothing. It had made him mad hearing that they
thought it was funny that I was having such horrible seizures. At that point Alex saw him
starting to heave heavier sobs and hugged him and just patted him on the back, and kept
telling him that everything was going to be alright. Alex had acknowledged Carlos feelings
and comforted the best that she could.
Alex had also sprialed down into a bit of a rut herself when she first came to live
with us. The entire family tried figuring out what was wrong with her so we could all
figure out how to help her. Her wall that was up though just wouldnt budge. We all heard