"When the undertakers came to wheel my father's lifeless body out to the hearse, it was like they were taking my childhood with them." (PG 28). In this case Charlie is mourning over his father’s death. With no real father figure in Charlie’s life, it causes him a huge amount of grief especially when he is hurt, when he is looking for inspiration and especially when there is no income coming in. With none of these things he becomes a very unhappy and with no income, he becomes a very poor boy.
Research Project Proposal Essay For my research project I will be covering the works of Edgar Allen Poe, primarily focusing on his poem “The Raven”. The reason for my interest in Poe and his works is primarily because his life had a huge impact on the tales and poems he wrote and in a weird perspective; the hardships he experienced in his life can be seen as his “inspiration” for his work. Poe, who died at an early age of only 40, went through many hardships during his life. First losing his mother at the age of only 2 years old, Poe never really got to know his mother as many of us do today. His father died shortly after and Poe suffered greatly during his life not being able to claim to have “known” his parents.
Frethorne’s time as a servant was so brutal that he believed he would have been better off living life as a crippled beggar in his hometown of England rather than being a servant in the New World (Lauter 289). From Frethorne’s letters you can deeply feel the true pain and suffering he went through on a daily basis and you learn how much he begged and wished for his family to help him be back with them again in England. Simply, Frethorne’s experience as an indentured servant in the New World was unpleasant. His life during this time was rough due to elements, including: scarcity of food, weakness of the body, and loss of hope for a better life. During this time in the New World the demand for food was incredibly high, and only the wealthy were the ones lucky enough to get a real meal each day (Kupperman).
And the only thing that kept him going was his dad but the chance of getting separated from his dad was devastating for him. He was constantly hit with life and death situations throughout the whole year he spent going from camp to camp. Elie and his father had to lie about their age to even stay alive. “Here, Kid, how old are you?” “Eighteen” This helps keep him from being burned in the crematory. He was scared, felt lonely and wanted to do anything to stay alive.
Examples of flashback and irony are used in the film to make the plot more effective. (POINT) There are several examples of flashbacks, however, one of the most important examples takes place when Jim is given an opportunity to have a second comeback fight. Towards the later part of the fight, Jim received a heavy punch which knocked his mouth guard off and he was so worn out it seemed as if he would lose. (PROOF) A flashback takes place at this moment in which Jim sees his children’s empty beds because they had to be sent away from home. He also pictures the poor living conditions of his family and their unpaid bills which suggest that there isn’t enough food to eat.
Dickens wrote these novels to make the Victorian audience aware of problems in society such as poverty and injustice both of which Dickens experienced in his life. When Dickens was twelve he was made aware of his social class when his father was made bankrupt and, as a consequence, Dickens had to be removed from education and was sent to work in a blacking factory to help support his family. The relationship between Pip and the convict changes dramatically from chapter one to chapter thirty nine. In chapter one we learnt that Abel Magwitch is an escaped convict running from the authorities and that he is currently hiding out in the graveyard near to young Pip’s home. At this point in the novel we can see that the circumstances in which the escaped convict finds himself could not be worse.
Infants are naturally dependent on others for their care which creates a desire to succeed(Feist, 2009). Alder’s theory can be applied to Daisaku Ikeda’s life, who was born and struggled with ill health and tuberculosis, one of the leading killer diseases at the time(SGI, 2013). The doctors did not believe that Ikeda would live past the age of 30(SGI, 2013). Daisaku suffered many years from TB and ill health, which required many years of care by his mother and family. During those years, Ikeda felt that he burdened his family and often desired to contribute to his family’s overall wellbeing (SGI, 2013).
Likewise, the hardships Tom had to endure as a child toughened his soul and sharpened his mind. Abandoned by his alcoholic father, Tom lived in “a miserable tworoom tenement” (Anderson 650) with his mom and siblings. The situation went from bad to worse when his mother passed away, leaving her little children uncared for. Tom, who was just 10 years old at that time, forced himself to overcome grief and to hold himself together for the sake of his siblings. He even shoved his father off in the funeral of his mother and worked arduously to fend for his family.
The couple is revealed to be at a rather old age, “At the time of his birth…now they were quite old.” Their son’s illness has put a huge financial burden on the little family – the father used to be a successful businessman, but is now “wholly dependent on his brother Isaac”. The mother’s dressing is a symbol of their financial difficulties – she wore “cheap black dresses”. Poverty is another aspect of their background that encourages readers to pity the family. The entire story is based on symbols. The writer uses metaphors to create a sense of hopelessness in escaping from the hardship the family was in.
His father, John Dickens, living beyond his means, received imprisonment for debt, along with his wife and most of their children were sent to the Marshalsea in 1824. Dickens at age 12 was removed from school and sent to work at a shoe dye factory, earning six shillings a week to help support his family. Despite his parents’ best efforts, the family remained poor. He felt abandoned and betrayed by the adults who were supposed to take care of him. His childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment, although unknown to his readers until after his death, has a heavy influence on Dickens later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.