In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark, represents how important family time is to the heart. “…caregiving should be a way of life. This is not to say that caregiving is an integral part of life. Alice shows the opposite of good family time to hint to the reader about what is really going on behind the scenes. The author “takes the reader directly into the world of care by dramatizing the meaning of reciprocal human relationships. It also highlights some of the central themes of this book: that there is a difference between kindness as a feeling and kindness as a practice, that kindness 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 loved to have fun and spend time with his friends. Laird and his parents didn't have the closest relationship but they still talked about things. Everything was turned upside down for Laird, his parents and a little for his sister too. He became very ill with an unnamed illness. Laird never wanted to tell his parents about the illness because he was embarrassed. During Douglas Eisner's Critical Thinking and Literature class at a community college, he taught and discussed Tony Kushner's Angels in America: Millennium Approaches. His students reacted in ways he never expected. They insisted he was trying to teach them “a world without God.” Three students also said they were offended by the “portrayals of homosexuality.” Another discussion began about the fact that the story was about AIDS and the problems it poses. 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, that ... middle of paper ... do. You can't choose a family to live with, but you have to make the most 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. and Cain, W. (2006). In Gloaming. In AE Dark, an introduction to literature (pp. 118-130). New York: Pearson Longman. Eisner, D. (1999). Homophobia and the disappearance of the multicultural community: strategies for change in the community college. Retrieved January 2014 from the 1998 MLA Conference in San Francisco, California: http://www.adfl.org/bulletin/V31N1/311054.htmGordon, S., Benner, P., & Noddings, N. (1996). Caregiving: Readings on 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.