The simple thought of the warmth of the house full with children and a partner of our life awakes our desires. Therefore, family is something everyone dreams of while being a kid, a teenager or even an adult. All the enjoyable advantages makes us want have a "happy family." Nevertheless, rarely we think of it as a responsibility. Even though, family connects with pleasure and love, it also does complicate our lives. Looking through different generations and civilizations we acknowledge the family as unity but not always as joy and happiness.

Reading the book "The Good Earth", by Pearl S. Buck, we recognize family as a tradition - not will, as a responsibility - not release. Since the author emphasized the importance of marriage, there appears to be the question about its purpose. By simply looking at the common sense of this piece of work the overall meaning...