Why do we have to pay for other peoples mistakes? In the book “Flight” by Sherman Alexie Zits deals with many disappointments in life. One of his biggest disappointments is not having a father or someone that loves him like he wants to be love, “My father was a drunk, too more in love with beer and vodka than with my mother and me. He vanished like a cruel magician about two minutes after I was born” (Alexie4). This most of been hard for him to know that his dad didn’t care for him and that he only cared about his beer and vodka.
He talks about his grandfather Harrison with some dislike “he, while grandma slaved to tend the vat, graced the rival bars”. From the quote it is evident that he disliked his grandpa because he says that his grandma ‘slaved’ on the vat. The word slaved is a negative verb, showing that his grandfather used his grandma in the possessive term as almost free labour. While he “graced the rival bars”, he shows that his grandpa didn’t really care about the condition he left grandma in, saying that he would rather go to the local bars than help grandma. He then goes on to describe how he spent his money.
However, Neil's strong drive for achievement is cut short by his father who has an overbearing influence and control over Neil's life. This control culminates when Neil ends his own life later in the film. Neil plays the role of the "dutiful son" in his uneasy and detached relationship with his father.The lack of affection is shown in Neil and Mr Perry's father-son relationship as Neil refers to his father as "Sir". Neil is a powerless figure in his relationship with his father and himself; this is particularly evident in the scene where Neil and his friends are acting defiantly by smoking and mocking the four pillars of Welton Academy. When Mr Perry enters the room, he orders Neil to drop the School Annual.
From the perspective of Larry’s mother and the women on the street, Larry’s drunkenness is not a positive thing and much disappointment and blame for this is put on Larry’s father and irresponsibility. And then considering the situation from Larry’s father’s point of view, Larry’s drunkenness was a result of his own doing. Larry’s father did not find himself at fault because his son drank the beer and made a choice to get drunk. The father believed that he had a right to socialize, free from the worries of his
He tries to explain to his father that he has blown him so full of hot air that he hasn’t been able to take orders from any employer, that all of his jobs have failed because he believed what his father told him when he said he deserved greatness. Biff finally realizes, on his own, that greatness is earned, not handed out like soup at a homeless shelter. Fortunately for Tom Wingfield, he already knew that lesson. He ran away to find his greatness and adventure, his destiny. He returns to the old apartment and it is empty, used only now by the spiders who have built themselves luxurious condos in the arches and windowsills.
King Priam watches as his sons body gets dragged behind Achilles Chariot in the Greek camp. Achilles refuses to give up Hectors body to Priam because he is saddened due to the death of his friend Patroclus. Achilles and Priam are both free, not only of their kingly roles but Achilles is free from the rage and grief he feels following Patroclus' Death and Priam is liberated from the restrictions placed upon him as king when he goes to retrieve his sons body. Achilles is Liberated from the rage and grief he feels following Patroclus' his "adoptive brother"'s Death. The shocking grief Achilles is put through when Patroclus' dies, sends Achilles into a hopeless fury.
The 1998 movie Smoke Signals focuses on the process of how Victor Joseph accepts and forgives his father, Arnold Joseph. From the beginning, Victor is uncertain about his father’s feelings about him because Victor has heard his father Arnold has saved Thomas, not Victor. Every time Victor hears it, his uncertainty about his father Arnold increases regularly. Victor’s feeling of lack of the father’s love is well illustrated by Victor’s answer to his father’s question: “What is your favorite Indian?” He answers “nobody,” and repeats it three times to emphasize his distrustfulness on his father. Victor’s feeling of the lack of his father’s love is more deepened after his father Arnold has left home.
He experiences vexation because he is unable to provide his family with basic living essentials, like a bed. Both Gatsby and Walter make sacrifices to impress their loved ones, however. Although Gatsby’s business venture was a success and Walter’s was a complete failure, both involved illegal dealings and were not allowed in that current era. For example, Gatsby made a living by bootlegging alcohol, “He [Gatsby] and this Wolfshiem bought up a lot of side-street drug stores here and in Chicago and sold grain alcohol ... I picked him for a bootlegger … and I wasn’t far wrong” (Fitzgerald, 141).
The point is that an alcoholic not in recovery should be nowhere near a young child or in any committed relationships until sober. The novel is also peppered with horrific flashbacks of abuse at the hands of Jack’s father. Because of the trauma he experienced, it is as hard for Jack to be a normal father as it is for a normal father to strike his son; quite difficult. “In those days it did not seem strange to Jack […] that his own love should go hand-in-hand with his fear […]” (http://www.shmoop.com/shining-stephen-king/family-quotes-3.html). This quote is a perfect illustration of how Jack’s sense of what a relationship should be like is irreversibly altered.
Firstly, Myrtle loves Tom for his money just like Daisy. Myrtle thinks that money is a mean of release and hopes to forget about her affair with Tom. Myrtle’s husband, George, is a poor man who runs a gas station in the poorest part of New York. Nick is disgusted with the Wilson’s house when Tom brings him to meet Myrtle. The condition of the house is very shabby and dirty.