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    My Son Monologue

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    Yes‚ yes. That’s my son. That...was my son. And I’ll tell you now‚ because I know you are going to ask. I don’t know why. Do you hear me? I don’t know why he did it. I don’t know why. He was my son. I don’t know why he did it‚ but I think...I think that I saw it coming. Not like‚ I knew for sure he was gonna...do what he did. He saw a therapist‚ every Tuesday. And she used to tell me some...some messed up things. He never really liked people. Was always anti-social. Always a little sad

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    My Son the Fanatic

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    My son the fanatic essay words: 637 Parvez is worried about his son and the sudden change in his behavior. For years Parvez boasted to his friends about his son‚ but now a problem had occurred that Parvez couldn’t tell them about. Initially Parvez thought that drugs was the reason for the sons transformation‚ but that idea ended abruptly when he found him praying. According to Ali his father is way to implicated in Western civilization. Parvez doesn’t comment on that directly‚ but he describes

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    My Son the Fanatic

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    My son the fanatic The generation gap is a dilemma which frequently occurs among immigrants‚ and in his short story My son the fanatic‚ Hanif Kureishi brings up the issue concerned. Kureishi introduces us to a father‚ who’s alarmed and puzzled by his sons’ strange behavior‚ which proves out to be against his own values. During this‚ Kureishi touches on the topics fanaticism and religion‚ and how these can change ones behavior towards ones family. Kureishi also focuses on how people relate to their

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    now‚ it sure felt that way. It was as if we traveled back thirty years‚ before it all happened. Yet I barely recognized my son. My scrawny‚ short son had turned into a man. In fact‚ he was taller than me‚ strongly built‚ with facial hair and glasses. You don’t notice change when you see it everyday. But looking at my son‚ I barely recognized him. “We should set up camp‚” my son responded. “You’ve always put business first. I’ve always respected that about you‚” I laughed. From a young age‚ he

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    My Son the Fanatic

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    The story: ”My Son the Fanatic”‚ takes place in Parvez’s house. This is the place that the story mainly takes place in‚ and it is also here that the conflicts erupt. The text also takes place at Parvez’s workplace; this is the place that Parvez uses to figure out what problems his son might have. The last place that the story takes place in is the restaurant that Parvez and his son‚ Ali‚ visits. The restaurant is where you could say that Parvez realizes how religious his son has become‚ and that

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    My Son The Man

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    Through the reading of Sharon Olds’ poem “My Son the Man”‚ a mother is witnessing her son growing up into a man. Olds explores her sadness on how her son matures‚ while also realizing he is able to escape from her tight grasp. Olds examinants how her son grows from a little boy to a man‚ how she has to get ready to let him go‚ and how he finally has freedom. “My Son the Man” starts with an allusion‚ “Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider” (1). The son has already physically matured. His physical

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    My Son the Man

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    I cannot express the love and fear for my child until I actually become a father. I do know a mother’s love runs deep though. Mothers are more nurturing‚ caring‚ more emotional and loving than a father in most cases. I know my mother hates that I am growing up so fast‚ she even tells me sometimes that she still wishes I was a little baby that she could hold in her arms and rock to sleep. “My Son the Man” by Sharon Olds expresses the same feeling that my mom does. She is afraid of her “baby boy”

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    my son the marine

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    English Comp. II Writing Assignment 1 Rough Draft February 10‚ 2014 Melanie A. Tucker Dissecting “My Son the Marine” The story “My Son the Marine” Is written by Frank Schueffer. The reason for this paper is to identify weather or no to author used logos ethos or pathos in the story. The story took place on a summer day. One day after high school a young boy decides he wanted to join the military. The young boy talks to almost all of the military recruiters except one. Later that afternoon

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    My Son the Fanatic

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    My Son the Fanatic 1. Introduction The theme of my term paper is the analysis of a short story with special regard to the socio-cultural and historical background. All the stories I could have chosen for that in school result from our semester theme "Britain: Past and Present"‚ but the story of my special choice was: "My son the fanatic"‚ by Hanif Kureishi. I have chosen this story because‚ as reported by my English teacher‚ this story does not only describe the situation of immigrants in Great

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    My Son the Fanatic

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    having to maintain one’s cultural background at the same time as embracing others’. In his short story “My Son the Fanatic”‚ Hanif Kureishi treats the drawbacks of immigrating while bringing it together with more universal matters such as growing up. We are introduced to the Pakistani protagonist Parvez‚ who once migrated from his native country. He now lives in England with his wife and their son‚ Ali‚ who hasn’t been brought up very religiously in spite of them being Muslims. This is presumably related

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