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Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Shameless Similarities between Life in Shameless and south side Chicago Television shows and movies are used to communicate what happens in the society we live in.The website Experience Project 2016 has several experiences from people who hail from dysfunctional families. Jack Jacobson has also written a book about his dysfunctional family but it is yet to be published but gives a glimpse of his family. Jack's father is a corrupt figure and is involved in a lot of scams in which he involves his family particularly Jack's uncle Robert and his brother and sister. This is similar to Frank's behavior. When Jack stands up to his father, his whole family turn against him. Jack's mother leaves the family after being cheated on. The movie Shameless portrays as much by mirroring real life events in south side Chicago. The Gallagher siblings who only have their dad represent most modern families in which only one parent is present in the family. Despite his being alive, Frank is an absentee father whose life has been destroyed by alcohol. This notion resonates well in the modern south side Chicago in which one of the parents is enslaved by alcoholism.This absenteeism always leads the children especially the girls and the first borns to mature fast and take up the responsibility of keeping their family together. Fiona in the movie portrays this ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : ] }, "author" : , "container-title" : "A.V. CLUB", "id" : "ITEM-1", "issued" : { "date-parts" : ] }, "title" : "The Gallaghersu2014and our GSD (Gallagher Stress Disorder)u2014are back on Shameless u00b7 TV Club u00b7 The A.V. Club", "type" :
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