In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark represents how important time spent with family is to one's heart. “…care must be a lifestyle. That doesn't mean care is lifelong.” Alice shows the opposite of good family time to hint to the reader what is really happening behind the scenes. The author “drags the reader directly into the world of caregiving by dramatizing the meaning of mutual human relationships. It also highlights some of the central themes of this book: that there is a difference between caring as a feeling and caring as a practice, that caring is crucial to the human community, and that it involves skills that can be taught and learned. The main character, Laird, was a normal teenager who liked to have fun and hang out with his friends. Laird and his parents didn't have a very close relationship but they still talked about certain things. Everything was upside down for Laird, his parents and a little bit for his sister too. He became seriously ill with an unnamed disease. Laird never wanted to talk to his parents about the disease because he was embarrassed. In Douglas Eisner's Critical Thinking and Literature class at Community College, he taught and discussed Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. His students reacted in a way he had never thought of. They insisted that he was trying to teach them “a world without God.” Three students also said they were offended by “portrayals of homosexuality.” Another discussion started that the story was about AIDS and the problems that come with it. Eisner realized that there was "a big hole in [his] students' education." “It was only when we directly addressed the issue of sexuality, particularly homosexuality,……halfway through the paper……do. You can't choose a family to be with, but you have to make the best of them and love them for who they are. “Friends come and go, but family is always there.” –Melissa PateWorks cited Barnet, S., Burto, W., & Cain, W. (2006). In the twilight. In A. E. Dark, An Introduction to Literature (pp. 118-130). New York: Pearson Longman.Eisner, D. (1999). Homophobia and the end of the multicultural community: strategies for change in the community college. Retrieved January 2014 from the 1998 MLA convention in San Francisco, California: http://www.adfl.org/bulletin/V31N1/311054.htm Gordon, S., Benner, P., & Noddings, N. (1996) . Caregiving: Readings in Knowledge, Practice, Ethics, and Policy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.Guralnik, D. B. (1976). Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language. United States of America: The World Publishing Company.