There is brotherly love, love for art, and love through compassion. Ironically, the narrator learns to love art through misery as he sees his brother pour his pain and suffering into his music. “I was remembering, and it made it hard to catch my breath, that I had been there when he was born; and I had heard the first words he had ever spoken. When he started to walk, he walked from our mother straight to me. I caught him just before he fell when he took the first steps he ever took in this world.” (5) It is this greater than sibling connection between the narrator and Sonny which causes the narrator to care for Sonny almost like a father.
What good does that bring him?! What good does it bring anybody? I only wish that my son studied the Torah as much as he studies these drawings. My son continues to disappoint me. At first he made horrendous grades in school and now he is making some sort of art gallery?
* Accurate: My friend’s dad has been the principle for his school over five years and deals with problems concerning drugs all the time. * Reasonable: Mr. J. wants to teach students and adolescents in the community that peer pressure is found and many will go with the flow. However, he agrees that the main concern
Rex was a charismatic, brilliant man who, when sober, captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and above all, how to embrace life fearlessly. Rose Mary, who painted and wrote and couldn't stand the responsibility of providing for her family, called herself an "excitement addict." Cooking a meal that would be consumed in fifteen minutes had no appeal when she could make a painting that might last forever. Later, when the money ran out, or the romance of the wandering life faded, the Walls retreated to the dismal West Virginia mining town, Rex Walls had done everything he could to escape. He drank.
Born in 1958 to a family that moved around the world (his father worked for the Foreign Service), Gurian presented his parents "with a powerful emotional and moral puzzle," he said in an interview. "My parents were always on a spiritual quest," he says, embracing, over the years, Hindu, Bahai and Quaker faiths. Gurian has no problem with spiritual mixing and matching (today, he's both Jewish and Unitarian). "But in their parenting styles, they were vacillators. They'd be really structured with me for a while, and then they'd be permissive; they were always experimenting."
This intensely religious lifestyle is a double-edged sword. Eugene often beats his wife and children as punishment for their sins. Eugene stresses that these beatings are for the childrens own good, and are inflicted upon them in order to allow them to reach perfection. Although these beatings are brutal, Kambili and her brother continue to adore their father, and strive to please him. When Kambili and Jaja are removed from the strict and oppressive home environment to go stay at their Aunty Ifeoma’s home in Nsukka, they both thrive as individuals, and begin to gain independence from their father.
Artemisia and her father Orazio, share qualities and experiences that affect not only their relationship to each other, but their relationships with others as well; they pursue their love of painting over their love of people, their pride prevents reconciliation and forgiveness, and they have both experienced great humiliation and loneliness. Unfortunately, Artemisia doesn’t realize these similarities until it is nearly too late. From early in her childhood, Artemisia wanted to be like her father. He was a successful painter and she wanted to learn to paint like him. Ironically, it was this passion of painting that led to her passion (suffering) surrounding her rape.
Bobby Griffith comes from a staunch Christian family. Somehow a young Bobby finds himself attracted to boys and confides that he is gay to older brother who goes and tell their mother. Mary is a deeply religious woman falls apart when she hears this. She tells Bobby that he is committing a sin therefore must change his ways by praying and going to church. No matter how Bobby prays and his family supporting him all the way all comes to no avail, he becomes dejected over his experiences in the church.
Louis Braille’s Creation of Reading and Writing for the Blind Louis Braille is very much a hero in my eyes and to millions of other peoples eyes too. He was a brilliant young man and struggled but achieved so much in a short period of time. Blinded at the age of three Louis inspired many people by his talent, his schooling success, his invention and even the recognition he received after death. Not only did Louis Braille impact American society but he impacted world wide society. Louis Braille‘s acts of courage and determination have been an inspiration to future generations and people all over the world.. Blinded at the young age of three, Louis was stabbed in the eye by a awl that was in his fathers workshop.
The issue of his father soon became to haunt him as his cousins and friends constantly made fun of his unmanly nature. “I don’t know I just didn’t feel hard” He would always cry and retreated to writing love songs and poetry (2PACLegacy.com). Afeni realized his dreams and never stopped him from doing what he pleased. She enrolled him into the famous 127th Street Ensemble, a theater group in Harlem section of Manhattan where he landed his first acting career as Travis in “A Raisin in the Sun”. Tupac always wanted to be an actor and was much focused in school as his mom encouraged.