Familial love, while much different from romantic love, has just as much strength and emotion. The ideas of unconditional love and caring remain the same for both types of love, but the physical attraction lacks with familial love. However, in place of physical attraction familial love has something that romantic love, usually, doesn’t have- flesh and blood relation. The connection formed when you share a huge part of who you are and what makes you with someone the bond formed can be the foundation of love. Additionally, I feel that familial love can also be a love of your home and a connection with your roots. Within Six Kinds of Sky, there is a strong bond between Joni and her family and the reservation. In the story Joni has recently died and her husband returns back to her home Indian Reservation for her burial. The love her family has for her is shown by the fact that they still have her buried at home on the reservation, even though they didn’t approve of her husband and the woman her non-traditional lifestyle led her to become. But nonetheless their love for her is unconditional and they accept her back to be buried. During Joni’s life when they went out to California her husband would often find her staring up at the palm trees with a look on her face that expressed her regret in her choice to move off the reservation. Her husband admitted to,”…fool[ing] her away from her people, [and] her world” (114). Her expressions of melancholy and her alcoholism gave proof to the intolerable of the separation between Joni’s home and her family.
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