In the beginning chapters of the book, he is eager and looking forward to war. By the end of the book, wishes he had never been involved in the war. A dramatic change took place inside this man between his enlistment and discharge. I read this change to be an extreme form of growing up. Not the form of growing up that most young men these days go through, but the growing up a man does when he watches friends die.
His parents actions when he was young left him with the idea that love and relationships are horrible and all it does is hurt us, he felt as if it’s not worth going through the pain and stress. He only saw the bad sides of love, and because of that, he kept himself from everyone; he never realised the good sides of love until later on in his life. Another main contrast between the two poems, is guilt. In both poems the poets both feel guilt, but in different ways. Harrison, who had a good and loving family life, felt guilty about the way he treated his father when mourning.
When John Hickam sees his son and enquires to how the football training went, close camera angles show us the disappointment that Homer experiences on his face and as the camera cuts back to John we see how he thinks his son is weak. But as Homer’s dad says that he can work in the mine Joe Johnston deliberately cuts back to Homer to show the viewer that Homer’s face is forlorn and has a very stern expression-he does not want to work in the mine. The father and son have very different views and it is what is making the relationship that exists are very strained one. Other camera angles in this scene consistently show John Hickam being higher and bigger than Homer. As the scene continues, this technique
Okonkwo and Macbeth are both heavily influenced by other characters, fuelled by the expectations of their societies, and driven to act based on their tragic flaw. The reason behind all the actions Okonkwo takes can be traced back to one person; his father. Okonkwo grew up hating Unoka’s laziness and he “was ruled by one passion- to hate everything that his father Unoka had loved” (Achebe 13). This led him to rule “his household with a heavy hand” (Achebe 13), and treat his family poorly. He is afraid to show affection, as seen with Ezinma and Ikemefuna.
The violence that Mark faces at home is so constant that he doesn’t think it anything when he threatens to kill his father because he beats him constantly. Jacksons violent nature causes a wall to be built up between him and his son. This wall is slowly torn down as Mark realizes he actually loves his father and that his father loves him. “ Pangs of hunger melted my resentment of my father away, and now that he was gone I longed night and day for his return... as I saw other children in the company of their fathers, I would cry. “ ( 6,8 ).
From the first quote inserted in film, the disdain toward the students from the veteran teachers, to Mr. Daiders sheer will to continue to fight for his dream to educate the young minds of the future, the determination was a constant factor in the plot of the film. Mr. Daider went through mental and physical agony just to teach these students even when refused to be thought. His determination was only shaken when his wife’s pregnancy was put into jeopardy, which was one of the main symbols in the film. But instead of staying down and quitting, he continued to follow his dreams through the support of his wife. In summation, Blackboard Jungle was a testament to a war veteran’s perseverance to follow his dream of molding young minds and bettering the future.
At one point, when Chlomo was being beaten by Idek, he was ashamed of his father and he didn’t feel any grief for him. When Rabbi Eliahou’s son abondons him, Elie prays to God to never let him abandon his own father like that. Elie says “Rabbi Eliahou’s son had felt that his father was growing weak, he had believed that the end was near and had sought this separation in order to get rid of the burden, to free himself from an encumbrance which could lessen his own chances of survival. I had done well to forget that. And I was glad that Rabbi Eliahou should continue to look for his beloved son.
He tries to seek help and reassurance that what he did was not wrong, but no matter how many times he heard that he did the right thing, deep down, he knew it was wrong and that would never change. What the author realized may be considered to be an epiphany. After all the struggle he went through trying to decide what the right thing was to do, he put the man in his son’s shoes. What would he have wanted if it were his son crying in the elevator? Of course he would have wanted someone to reach out.
I have always had very strong opinions regarding vaccinations; especially now as a parent and a student in the medical assistant program. An old supervisor of mine believed in not vaccinating his children. He believed that he was injecting a ‘poison’ into his child’s body and he didn’t believe in vaccinations. He felt he was protecting his child by not giving him the vaccinations. I asked him one day, “Have you been vaccinated?” He replied, “Yes.” I then asked him, “Do you have poison in your body then?” He didn’t answer my question.
Khaled Hosseini’s ‘The Kite Runner’ is a text that revolves around betrayal and redemption. Redemption is the act of saving or being saved from sin, error, guilt or evil, which the main protagonist Amir seems to be in need of the most. Amir lives most of his life with guilt which stems from an incident that occurred in which he witnesses his friend and servant, Hassan, being raped but does not make an effort to help or comfort him. As Amir does not make an effort to redeem himself for not helping Hassan at the beginning, this guilt builds up inside of him. Amir’s fathers words still echo through his head “A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.” – page 29.