But before journey he hadn’t known how to react or treat his son. This is the evident through metaphor ‘I’m not made of money, you know’ shows how he treats him. As a result, Ant loses his courage, guts to handle with situation. He didn’t let him to recover his mistake. He loses his confidence to talk closely with his father.
However, he takes action in trying his very best, which even includes calling his father for advice. However, Sonny does lack symbolic self-awareness. His is not able to develop a representation of his thoughts and motives, which is why he is not able to deliver this news to his father in a way that his father can understand, and respond to in a calm matter. Sonny’s father lacks self-awareness as a whole. When Sonny’s father receives his son’s phone call, he lashes out at him immediately.
Based on family heritage and life, people form their own biases towards others and other situations without realizing it. The situations people often find themselves in - such as a new home, new ideas and powers; mold the opinions they already have, causing people to judge others, or have a change in attitude. In reading both John Dane’s memoir and Nathaniel Bacon’s “Declaration,” the reader can see that Dane’s attitude on God and his Puritan believes have shifted, while Bacon seems to be in a race for power. In John Dane’s memoir, he explains to us the type of life he led, up until he found what he had been searching for - to discover what he could actually do for God and his mercy. With Nathaniel Bacon, we see a hostile attitude towards
He knows there are going to be consequences when he thinks to himself “I felt how hard the world was going to be to me thereafter”(20). The stance he takes proves that his relationship with Lengel is symbolic of one going against the normal values of society. Sammy is not just a clerk in a short story, but a symbol of a rebellious youth not wanting to conform. Updike’s symbolic message in “A&P” is a lesson to the youth of his day. It is a message that money, class, and status are not everything.
By bringing awareness to the deeper problem, we can approach it in a more positive manner than the negative manner we have always approached it in. If we approach the fathers differently, by showing them how they too can go back to school and better themselves. I think this would help solve some of the problem then just merely telling them that we will put you in jail if you do not pay. We take it for granted that the poor uneducated father knows exactly what to do to better himself, when he may not have any idea on how to, and also with no moral support. I have seen child support agencies look down their nose at fathers for not paying and he is trying to explain his situation, and the agency just turning their nose up at him, instead of heading him in the direction of success.
In his autobiographical story, This Boy's Life, Tobias Wolff discusses the journey that both he and his mother went through searching for financial stability and a peaceful life. On this journey Tobias is left with no positive male influence, which not only causes him to develop several behavioral problems, but makes the past have a long-term impact on his life. As hard as it may be, Tobias is forced to grow up at a young age, and alone, which is something he must face. Through his journey of adolescence, Tobias seems to show signs of emotional and behavioral disorders, which were caused by not having any rules or regulations to follow. To try to avoid the harsh realities of his past, Tobias develops many different distinct personalities at various points.
Another example of this concept can be shown through the novel Shane where he has trouble fitting with his family as his beliefs differ from what his parents believe in. The idea that a sense of not belonging can emerge with
He states, “Under the power of this divine interaction, I barely realize what I’m about to do. I slip into some kind of autopilot; I’m not at the controls anymore” (Ralston 279). The breaking of his own bones is the ultimate change of character that Ralston undergoes because previously this would not have even been a realistic option. At this point, he has already acknowledged and accepted that there is a greater force in control, but he also knows that it is up to him to undergo and follow through with this physically and psychologically challenging task. This event effectively shows how Ralston has changed and grown from his time in the
He didn’t really have any understanding on Sonny. On pg. 561, he tells us, “Sonny just moves back, inside himself, where he can’t be reached.” Sonny would just keep his thoughts and feelings to himself. This probably made it more difficult for people to read him, which is why his brother never understood him, or even tried to understand. But by the end of the story when he finally got to hear his brother play his music, and do what he always said he wanted to do, he finally understood everything.
The topic of abduction, though covered in the news extensively, does not reach the level of analysis you took in your novel. Through the writing of Jack the reader experiences another layer of depth to the book overall and is provided a new perspective when looking at the situation of this abduction. The world is full of people of Old Nick who take advantage of trusting children with innocence to lose. Jack knows nothing of the outside world and when he does experience it for the first time, it is marred by the reality of the situation he just escaped. In your book you talk about both of these problems and the impact it has on the characters.