Koiki’s decisions are once again influenced by his family when his father is ill and he is denied access on to Murray Island. Fuelled by his anger towards not being able to see his dying father and that he cannot move his family back to Murray Island, Koiki begins his land right claim. Koiki’s reasons for making these significant decisions were inspired by his love for his family. Although Perkins’ Mabo addresses other issues such as the effects of discrimination and the role of the individual in creating change, it is true that there is a major focus on the meaning of family and the support it gives. The film shows the crucial importance of father son relationships, the strong relationship between Koiki and his adopted father Benny influence Koiki’s appeal to the land right.
Although, these words may seem harsh, at first Peter fit them perfectly. An example of this can be shown through the line “This is absurd. Its just a dog!” said by Peter as Mr. Barrie was putting on a play for him and his brothers at the park. We can see from this line that Peter almost refuses to try and use his imagination when the film first begins. Later on in the movie we learn that the reason for this is because he lost his father to cancer and when he was sick his mom lied to him saying he’d take them fishing in the next week.
He finds it challenging to have lost his father as the motif of “the boat” is used to emphasize the loss of his father. He feels that “no boat rides restlessly in the waters” generating an idea that you won’t be happy throughout your whole life because he has lost his happiness since the day he lost his dad. His memories of his father are remembered as “gigantic” and “being elevated”. But to him they are “only shadows and echoes” of his past. The “earliest recollection” of the father is filled with imagery such as “stubble of his cheek” and “ sound …boots galumphing along”.
The two boys differed in just about everything except in the love of fly fishing; this seems to be where the boys came to understanding with one another. Now even though Norman was the oldest, he admired his younger brother Paul and his wild streak which said to make him ‘tougher than any man alive’. Norman feared that that would someday destroy Paul, but took little worry in the possibility of it ever coming true, which it does later on in the film. Norman becomes serious in his school work and writing. He ends up attending Dartmouth College for six years and graduates, later becoming professor of English literature.
As a class, we read about two situations. One situation was about a young girl who had realized how ashamed and how negative the affect of her father’s failure was to her. Another situation was about a boy who grows up and eventually had to choose between leaving his family and studying just like all of his siblings or staying and helping the family. Both of the stories showed the fatherhood each of the fathers had or lacked. The first story is called “Wing’s Chips” by Mavis Gallant and the second story is “The Boat” by Alistair MacLeod.
The story is about a boy whose only tie to his father was taken away from him towards the end of the story because of the effects of modernization. Previous family traditions are lost because of the technology shifts, generation gap and communication breakdown. The technology shift in this story is represented by the camera crew and the technicians who only wanted to witness the fathers’ gift for their movie. The camera crew, technicians and farmer did not have any personal ties to this gift. The gift that the father passed on to his son, the narrator, was meant to be a bond shared between only father and son.
Anything of value Huck had while he was with his father, Huck relinquished them to avoid getting beaten. Pap took his son away from where he was living with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson to live with him. Here Pap taught him to fish and hunt, but that was the extent of the good Pap did for Huck, leading to Huck faking his death and running away. Pap was a stain of a memory for Huck. Jim the slave featured much more prominently and positively in Huck's life.
After a twelve-year absence, the father returns. The father and two sons embark on a trip to go fishing, however, along the trip the father has to complete a job to retrieve a box from the island he takes the boys to for camping and fishing. Along the way, the younger son (Ivan) becomes very resentful in how his brother is accepting their father back into their lives. Due to his behavior, the father is strict with him and the treatment that Ivan receives is very harsh. At one point of the movie when Ivan complained about having to stop fishing to go to another location, the father stops on a bridge, removes the fishing rods, and pulls the son out of the car.
One of the episodes that I watched recently, the family was going on a vocation and like all of the other vocations Timmy’s father always gets lost, but he never admits to it. The family ended up in an island and the father said he is going to build a boat and save his family. The father also said if he doesn’t succeed he will called himself a woman named Linda. I feel like genders are presented in a way that serves to reinforce traditional stereotypes. For example, when Timmy’s father refers to himself as Linda, he puts on lipstick and says Linda broke her nails.
He is honest, brave, and faithful to his family. He travels in the sea where his father was lost, who great man and more experienced than him. He preferred to be dead rather than staying safe but humiliated by the suitors. Moreover, he confronted the suitors with his intentions, though he was helpless and too young to debate with them. He told the suitors that they are not qualified for taking the kingship, because they are not capable of defending