During the course of the novel of ‘Deadly Unna?’ the readers are exposed to the negativity between the father and his son. This affects Blacky in way that his self-esteem is almost non-existent, and the negativity is prominent throughout the novel. Examples of the neglect shown by his father are that of the time when Bob refers to Blacky as a ‘gutless wonder’, and the journey we take through the story of Blacky’s deteriorating respect for him. The ‘gutless wonder’ incident was a influential part of the novel, as Blacky realises that his Dad isn’t one to take advice of someone he feels is inferior than him, thus saying, ‘My own son, a gutless wonder. A gutless fucking wonder!’ When Blacky explains to his father about the storm, Bob insults him rather than swallow his pride and takes his son’s advice on board.
In my opinion the single most impressive aspect of this film was watching the relationship between Don and his dad. Don’s dad was a drunk who was not very nice to Don. He would embarrass him in front of his friends and teammates. When the game was over and they lost the championship, Don’s dad came up to him and gave him a hug and his championship ring. I was not expecting him to give him the ring and call him a champ; I thought he was going to yell at him again.
As Victor was growing up, he was also steadily growing apart from his best friend Thomas due to social pressures. I think he didn’t want to be considered a weirdo because he affiliated with one. He was ashamed of being Thomas’s friend. So he beat up Thomas in front of everyone to just show that he wasn’t his friend. After that incident the two never spoke to each other up until the death of Victor’s father.
This highlights the bitterness of Jim’s father as he is alcoholic and he couldn’t do anything to help with the war. Noted that the way of how the father talks also suggested he was drunk at the time. Words like “s’pose”, “an’”, “v’”, “’Arvey” show a slur articulation, further proving that he was drunk. Despites the fear of losing his son, Jim’s father further persuades his son to join the war in
There was an old man who tried committing suicide but failed, and he decides to go get drunk which is understandable. If somebody is too much in despair to the point that they attempt suicide, most likely they wouldn’t want to be in a sober state of mind. I found the younger waiter completely insensitive, he told the older waiter “I’m sleepy now. I never get unto bed before three o’clock. He should have killed himself last week.” (Hemingway 143) and then he has the nerve to tell the man himself that he should have killed himself.
I hated reading the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It was a very good book but it was so depressing, tragic, and scary. As I read this story, one bad thing happened after another. I did not like the narrator Amir because he was very selfish throughout most of the book and took advantage of a special friendship that him and Hassan shared until Amir didn't want anything else to do with him. As a child, Amir was constantly trying to impress his father, Baba, who looked up to Hassan more than he did Amir.
As the years kept going by, my father had moments of sobriety and converted to Christianity; however, it was a vicious circle. I was a teenager, and to me it was very embarrassing going to school and seeing my dad walking drunk around the school area. There was a time when a friend of the family went home to tell my mom that my dad had fallen asleep in a corner of a sidewalk between a car that was parked. My mother had told me to go running and wake him up, since I was younger and faster. So I ran and saw him there… to my surprise, the moment I went to wake him up, there was a man in the car getting ready to take off; as he saw me helping my father he couldn’t believe how he didn’t realize that there was someone laying there and he could’ve ran over him.
Once married, he now sits alone drinking bourbon. This man has a substantial amount of money, but there is a rumor that he tried to kill himself. The second main character is the young waiter. He is portrayed as an impatient person trying to leave the café as quickly as possible. He has a wife waiting for him back at home.
When Hally was young his father “was dead drunk on the floor of the Central Hotel Bar” and Sam helped Hally bring him home. Hally’s father being him left a big empty space in Hally’s heart of a father figure missing and Sam slowly un knowingly started to heal and close the small hole. Sam would always be there for him and with Hally being always disappointed and sad he knew that no matter what Sam would find a way to heal Hally, like with the kite scene where he made him feel hope and
This man was left quadriplegic after a diving accident and had been bedridden for almost 30 years. He fought a losing battle with government: he never received permission for euthanasia, and in January 1998, with the help of one of his friends he took poison. Another possible reason for the justifying of euthanasia is the lack of space in hospitals for those who can be cured and saved. It is bitter to own up, but this problem exists in many countries. Those who want to live have no chance to get the proper treatment while those who want to die cannot give their place to them.