In Mr. Ives’ Christmas, Oscar Hijuelos crafts a deeply sentimental work of fiction about faith and the different cohesive mechanisms of family. This paper will meditate on the different, and in some cases, evolving familial mechanisms. This will be done, first off, by broadly discussing some of the less pronounced families in the novel, and then by greatly narrowing the scope of the essay and discussing in detail the familial evolution of the Ives’.

Hijuelos presents a variance of families in this novel. Every family’s values seem to be in contention with another’s, but despite this notion, the families are bound together by choice, action, relation and sympathy. The most developed and indeed the main families in this story are the Ives’ (both senior and junior), the MacGuire’s, the Ramirez’s and the Gomez’s. For sake of brevity, and for a better developed analysis, the senior Ives’ and Gomez’s will not be discussed.

The MacGuire's are......

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Title: Mechanisms Of Cohesion
Approximate Word Count: 1471
Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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