As this story unravels, the reader is able to observe the changing of a relationship, tradition, and young man. While reading, each character appears equally content, yet neither is truly pleased. The root of the unhappiness in each character is due to the change that has occurred in Joe and in their tradition. While his father accepts his change of mind, he is quite obviously offended and most likely feels hurt by Joe’s decision. On the other hand, Joe expresses sorrowfulness. This leaves the reader’s mind focused on the past, when the relationship was ideal and each character was happy; reminiscing in the…
The connections and experiences josh witnesses introduces him to different types of relationships. Different relationships rely on the connections individual’s experience. Through his mum josh learns that even though you haven’t seen or heard from some one you loved and cared for, for a period of time even considering what they have been through she shows that unconditional love for her son Michael. “Michael, Michael, where are you? Why wont you speak to your father and me let us know where you are. It’s not fair…” (James Moloney, lost property, pg57) “There were happier times… I need to keep telling myself that” (James Moloney, lost property, pg98) this indicates the forever love and care she has for her son as she worries and cares about…
I noticed that Jim has a negative image about himself. Jim believes that his father has a unrealistic expectation of him.…
What is a father? A father is someone who is more than just a person who created you. A father is a person who should be a mentor to you and helps guide you through life. What isn't a father is one who simply puts their children aside to live their own lives and have no part in their children's life and growth. The stories I will be contrasting are "The Last Game," by Jan Weiner and "Reunion," by John Cheever. My first reason of contrast is that in "Last Game," the relationship between characters Jan Weiner and his father is that of mutual admiration in which the son had great respect for his, his pride and braveness of choice which is contrasted in "Reunion," as the son Charlie has feelings of disdain for his a father in that his father's actions were disappointing, disgraceful and selfish. My second reason of contrast is in "Last Game," Jan Weiner's father is dealing with political problems in that he lived in the time of the holocaust and was Jewish, consistently chased by Nazi's who forced him to make a tough decision on suicide as opposed to dying the Nazi way which is contrasted in "Reunion," where the father is dealing with psychological problems in that he is a drunk who's very obnoxious with an abusive mentality. My last reason of contrast of contrast is in "Last Game," there is a strong bond between Jan and his father where their sense of family was strong and they had a deep understanding for each other is contrasted in "Reunion," as there was a lack of a bond due to the father's arrogance and bad personality. I chose these three reasons because I believe they represent and answer the questions what is and isn't a father.…
an identity crisis. He was constantly reminded of the disappointment he was to his father, and started to…
3 Important Lines: On page 19 Jeremy’s parents are talking, Jeremy’s dad speaks first “Where have you been?” “At school,” Mom said, twisting her blonde hair and fixing it in a bun with a pencil. “You’re three hours late. Why didn’t you call?” I chose this conversation because it shows lack of trust and the father starting to get suspicious about his wife and her actions. On page 26 Jeremy’s dad calls the rest of the family downstairs and says “So, Phoebe, tell us. We’re all waiting” “I’m leaving” was all she dais sobbing deeply, her voice thin and fragile. “I’m leaving. I can’t take this anymore” The significance of these lines is that this is where the whole family’s lives turn around and is the climax of the story. On page 59 Jeremy is talking about the affect his mother leaving has had on him “In the first weeks after my mom left, I felt that I wouldn’t mind just going to sleep and not waking up. My head was so full of bad thoughts that…
The main character had a terrible relationship with his father. They didn’t see eye to eye at all. The father just took him to baseball games and left him there with an usher that he paid to watch him. The absence of a father figure was significant to his childhood. When he grew up he tried to be anything but that memory. He was involved in his children’s lives. This would be a family theme where the parent separates themselves from the child, so they could attend to their own matters in life. The next theme can be seen in the family that has the young girl being feed information like a sponge ruining her childhood so she could get ahead intellectually. The parents did not see her as a child but as some sort of machine. It is not the proper way to raise a child. She was socially awkward and didn’t have the social skills to socialize with the other children at Kevin’s birthday party. This theme is where the parents treat the child as an object rather than a living being. The next one is in the single mom with the two kids. She struggles to support for her family and her children disrespect her all the time. The son was so distant from her and left all the time, while the daughter was in love with a troubled boy. The son was having problems with himself since she went through puberty and he didn’t have a father figure to explain all the changes in his body and while he was feeling certain things. Todd became that father figure when he married the boy’s sister and got to explain what was happening through experience. This helped out the single mother trying to support her two children. The youngest son and brother of Gil the main character displayed the same type of parenting as the grandfather did with Gil, abandoning his child and dumping him with whoever would take care of him.…
The Joad family loses everything they have between their farm land, house and crops, they are forced to leave their land and to move somewhere else. The family only has a little bit of money so it is hard for them to find something and they are out of work and are not bringing in any money to help will the cost of things. Jim Casy faces a problem with sinful thoughts and being a minister. Jim Casy later gets killed in the novel because of…
When he tells his father, his father responds, “There is no one to see.” The father than states that, “they must go now”. The boy gets very upset and the father questions, “Do you want to die? Is that what you want?” When the boy responds, “I don’t care,” the father gets upset and expresses to the boy that he, “musn’t say that” (McCarthy 85). This is a primary example of the father reassuring the boy still has hope. The father not only makes sure the boy has hope, he also tries to give the boy hope. He gives the boy hope by telling them they are not going to die soon. This is proven in the novel when the boy asks, “Are we going to die” and the man says, “Sometime. Not…
The Bragg family grew up with virtually nothing. The father left the family a number of times, offering no financial assistance and stealing whatever he could before he left. When he was there, he was usually drunk and physically abusive to the mother. He rarely went after the children, but when he did the mother was always there to offer protection. Mr. Bragg's mother's life consisted of working herself to exhaustion and using whatever money she had on the children.…
Furthermore, not only do the parents disregard their kids and cause them to face difficult situations on their own, but they also hindered their [the kids] progress. “Someone had slashed him [Oz] apart with a knife and stole all the money. I knew it was Dad … stoop this low … I just want to win a stupid little scholarship” (Walls 228,227). The siblings acquired jobs to help them escape to New York because they felt unfulfilled with their current life in Welch. Ordinarily, Dad’s interest was solely in the money he used for buying alcohol or gambling and he refused to care about the children’s dreams. When Dad stole the money, intended for Lori’s escape, the kids’ challenge was to work harder to recoup the lost money. Jeannette matured through her new experiences with her father as she realized that her Dad was not a hero but an alcoholic who would steal money from his kids for his desires. With his strong opinions, Dad did anything in his will to prove Lori wrong and his frustration caused him to ruin Lori’s sculpture for a scholarship. Living with neglectful parents was hard enough, but the worst result was that it brought out mental anguish in the children, especially…
For example when Jeannette was trying to own up to her sister's promise she couldn’t. She wanted to so bad but to other people that had read that quote that's motivation that the author was trying to tell us. Why this illustrates with other people till today is that there's examples out in the real world with poverty and also have their own different type of struggles just as Jeannette’s. On the page 255 Jeannette presents again about being homelessness from the parents view making the entire situation that they’re in a great wild adventure. The parents disguise the truth to the kids making their lives look like a breeze in the wind and refuse to even tell the truth. The parents like being poor they say to Jeannette Walls and the other children because having money is being spoiled and giving your children too much attention is bad as well. The parents almost make it sound that being homeless good and being poor is a good thing. That is why when Jeannette and the other kids try offering money to help their parents they refuse. This describes a deep introduction to…
Sam another young man talked about in the book was raised by his mother Ruthener Davis and his father, Kenneth Davis. Years later they divorced and that was the turning point for Sam's family. His mother Ruthener had little education and no work experience which caused her to go on welfare. Sometimes it would be a struggle to get food or pay bills. She depended a lot on Sam, he read her mail, made bank deposits, and writing out money orders for bills. He likes having the responsibilities but Sam felt like it was too much for someone his age to handle.…
The father is depressed and it’ obvious while reading the beginning where he describes the lake of his childhood and the same lake during his elder years:…
-Dad’s “shoulders and head shook from the deep sobs that came from down inside him” “I realized how badly hurt he was, as badly as me” (Bell, 12)…