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| Medium | Title | What it teaches | |--------|-------|------------------| | Film | August: Osage County | How secrets surface at a family gathering | | Film | Ordinary People | The silent war after a family tragedy | | TV | Succession | Power, inheritance, and emotional starvation | | TV | Six Feet Under | Family business + death + unresolved love | | Novel | The Corrections (Franzen) | Adult children and aging parents | | Novel | Homegoing (Yaa Gyasi) | Generational trauma across time | | Play | The Glass Menagerie | Memory, regret, and sibling bonds | You have the characters; now you need the plot
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