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In my senior year of high school, I was faced with a difficult decision: go to South Carolina to see my brother graduate from basic training or stay at school and compete in the wrestling meet that was scheduled for that week. If I went to see my brother, I would have let my wrestling team down as I would not have been there for them. But, if I wrestled in the meet, I would have felt like I let my brother down as I would not have been there in South Carolina, at Fort Jackson, to watch his graduation and to spend Family Day with him. I ended up going to see my brother because I had not seen him in a while and I missed him terribly. My brother and I have always been close and when he started off in the army, it was tough being without him in my everyday life. As a brother of an army soldier, I would have negative thoughts of what could happen to him throughout his time in the army, so I decided to go see him in case there were not going to be many more opportunities for me to see him. So, I let my wrestling team down initially, but it all worked out when the other team dealt with an unexpected circumstance in which they had to cancel the meet. So, in the end, I was able to see my brother without missing out on a wrestling meet.

Jane Eyre grew to be loyal to her family throughout the novel. She developed into a person who cared for the family she still had left, even if she refused to recognize them as such early on in the novel. Jane's Aunt Reed sent her off to a boarding school and Jane told her she would never call her aunt again. However, as she discovered the news of her aunt falling ill and on her death bed, Jane did not think about her decision, rapidly determining that she must go see her Aunt Reed as Bessie told Jane her aunt requested to see her. This shows loyalty to a family member and later in the novel, Jane is also loyal to family when she discovers Mary, Diana, and Mr. Rivers are in fact her cousins. When Mr. Rivers informs Jane of the amount her uncle is leaving her, twenty thousand pounds, Jane once again shows her loyalty to family by offering to split the sum four ways between her and her newly found cousins. Because of these instances of loyalty, I would think that if Jane were to have my dilemma, she would choose to go see the family member no matter what circumstance would be missed out upon her leaving. So, if Jane Eyre were in my shoes, she would have foregone the wrestling meet in order to see my brother graduate from basic training in Fort Jackson, South Carolina.