|
Family Relations
Below is a list of Writing Ideas to help you with your biography.
See our instructions if you need help
printing these Writing Ideas or finding Writing Ideas related
to other Topics.
- How many children were in his family? How many boys? How many girls?
- What did he do with his siblings? Did he play together when they were young? Did he talk about friends, school, or other matters as they grew up?
- Did he have to share a room with any of his brothers or sisters? If so, what was it like? Did he enjoy having the company, or did it seem like he never had any privacy?
- Did he fight with his brothers or sisters a lot? If yes, what did they fight about? Attention? Friends? Chores? Clothes? What did his parents do when they fought?
- Was there ever any teasing among him and his siblings? Did any of the jokes continue throughout their lives?
- Was there one brother or sister he always felt he could count on? Someone he could always talk to? Did they always seem to be there when he needed protection? Did he think of this person as his best friend or guardian?
- Did they borrow each other's clothes? If yes, with or without permission? Did anything ever get ruined or stained when it shouldn't have been worn? If yes, what happened?
- What was the best part about having brothers and sisters? What was the worst?
- Did they go to school together? How many years apart were they? Did they do things with the same crowd? If so, did it ever cause any kind of conflict? What was it? Whom with?
- Did he ever date a brother's or sister's friend? If so, how did they feel about it? Did it cause problems between them? What kind? How did it all turn out?
- Did the baby of the family seem to get away with murder? Was it he who was the baby?
- Did he always seem to get blamed when something bad happened? Did he ever try to blame things on his siblings? If so, what were some of the incidents? Were his parents good about letting everyone tell their side of the story?
- Was he and his siblings often asked to watch each other? What happened during these times? Was anyone bossy? Could he do anything he wanted?
- Did he look up to one of his siblings with admiration? Did he want to be just like them? Did he turn out with similar or completely opposite personalities?
- Did he feel his parents favored one of the children more than the others, or was everyone treated equally? Did he ever wonder what it would be like to be an only child? Did he ever wish he was? Why or why not?
- If he was a middle child, did it seem like he was always too young but not old enough? Did the older ones always pick on him and leave the youngest alone? Did the youngest always blame him instead of the oldest?
- Once they were grown, how did the relationship between him and his siblings change? Did they see each other very often?
- Did he have a twin? Was it a brother or sister? Were they identical? What was his twin's name?
- If he had a twin, did they ever play the switching game? Whom did they try to convince? Did they succeed? Did they do this often? How did this affect his relationship with his twin?
- Did he feel like they were always competing? How did they compare to each other in different aspects of life? In sports, musical talents, academics, friends, and character, for example?
- If he had other siblings, was he closer to his twin? Did they share everything like best friends or did they fight and compete over everything?
[ Continue with This Topic | Next Topic/List of Topics ]
|
 |
