In the book the Brothers K, by David James Duncan the title of section five of "The leftovers" chapter is called "Mathew 10:36 Revisited." In the Bible, this verse says, "A man's enemies will be the members of his own household." At times, enemies are exactly what some members of the Chance family seem to be to each other. They often do things to each other without thinking or caring about how they will effects will be for the people in their family. .
Laura's three sons Kade, Everett, Peter and even her husband Hugh have different ideas about religion than Laura, because they weren't always willing to go along with what they were told about religion Laura felt they were all against her. Laura felt that, no matter what the cost, she must convince her other three children to believe that their brothers were wrong to feel the way they did about religion. Kincade describes Luara's trying to turn his siblings against him as, "Witch-hunters think that they"re right, they think you"re wrong, and they think that as long as they can prove it, how they prove it doesn't matter." (266) In her foolish and insane quest to prove herself and save three of her kids, she was willing to ruin her relationship with her husband and other three kids. When Kincade says, "I wished to hell I was smarter, or better at baseball."(369) It shows how much Laura and even Everett become enemies of their family when they fight and don't care about who they"re hurting. .
When Kincade was trying to get his father, Hugh to tell him about his life and to have a real conversation with him he, his father got frustrated. "But what is it with you? What do you expect from me?"(99) Hugh did not know how to respond to Kincade and he punched him. Hugh did not know what to say, he did not stop to think about what the effect would be on his relationship with his son, and so he became Kincade's enemy. As time goes on and Kincade grows up he begins to forgive his dad for punching him but everything Kincade felt that night comes back to him.
