Reb cares about his Judaic books more than anything else, including his family. “When we came to America, instead of taking along feather beds, and the samovar, and the brass pots and pans, like other people, father made us carry his books” (pg. 8). Being a father of the “Old World” and following strict traditions, Reb Smolinsky is not able to earn money in America. His lack of education, as well as his attitude toward women, and his steadfast grip on old traditions does not allow him to work and thus he cannot provide a steady income for his family.
While he was planting the seeds and conversing with Ben, he worried that “a man can't go out the way he came in” (125). Willy “[didn’t] have a seed in the ground” (122) for his family. Willy was not a successful salesman and didn’t have a lot of financial support for his family. In hopes his family will receive money from the life insurance agency, Willy committed suicide. Before Willy passed away the Lomans “[nothing] planted” (122).
Because he didn’t want it built in the first place, Troy doesn’t actually finish building the fence until very late in the play. Troy doesn’t want the fence built around his home because he doesn’t like the idea of being contained within it with his family. Throughout the play Troy pushes his family away from him. He pushes Rose away
His father didn’t tell him why they were there, what they had done to the country and who they were. Because none of this was explained to Bruno he had just thought they were normal people and he wanted to be with other children so badly. Bruno is always curious and that causes him to find Shmuel. Because Bruno’s Mother and Father did not tell him about Jews and what is really happening in the camp, and also Shmuel wouldn’t tell him because he wanted a friend and he wanted decent food. Bruno’s Mother telling Bruno not to go into the back yard is only tempting him to go in there, and when he does get caught in there he hardly gets in trouble, so he thinks if he keeps going in mother isn’t going to care.
He lives in a society where men rule, and it is hard for him to show love or affection towards his family. In this book Okonkwo’s character shows intolerance towards his father’s image, feminism, and the changes in his community. Okonkwo shows intolerance towards his father who was looked at as being weak. Unoka unlike Okonkwo, had no job and no money. He instead spent his time trying to bum money off other people in the village, well aware he would not be able to repay them.
In Chapter 4 the narrator describes how his life is before he and Rafa were sent to the campo. He lived with Rafa, his mother and grandfather. He and Rafa had a good relationship with their grandfather because if they ever got in trouble with their mother he would always go easy on them by not making them go through to punishment their mother gave them. During this chapter their mother is working long hours just to take care of her children. At one point she goes into a state of shock and depression because Yuniors father told her he was coming home to see them but he never showed up.
He is a man of many sides, and everyone seems to contradict the other. There is where we find the predicament with understanding Paul Farmer. He didn’t want to be another white liberal and prove people’s perception of him to be correct. Although the saying does go that “the greatest are misunderstood,” maybe he is not meant to be understood just do what he had to do and move to something different. He gave up his entire life for the people of Haiti, not many people can do that.
(Thornton) Rose wants to fence in her loved ones in her fear of losing them all. Troy built up fences to keep his family out of his life by all of the bad decisions he made and he also kept his family in with his constant struggle for power over them. Cory built up fences when his father crushed all his dreams, yet in the end breaks it down by refusing to end up like his father. Work Cited Farrar, Jo N. "Fences."
The narrator tells us that for many years he thought of buying a farm in the Concord countryside. He considered many sites and even exercised his Yankee shrewdness by haggling over the price with several farmers. But he followed his own advice, as expressed in "Economy," and avoided purchasing a farm because it would inevitably tie him down financially and complicate his life. Besides, he reasoned, why did he need to own a farm? All that is of real value to the individual in living on a farm — close, personal contact with the spiritually invigorating influences of nature — can be had for nothing.
He does not bother to find a job or even support his family. He also blames Atticus for being a blue jay, because Bob believes that the reason he lost his job was because of Atticus. However, even if Atticus knows Bob is blaming him, Atticus does not let Bob’s claim ruin him. Nonetheless, Bob Ewell uses the welfare money to buy whiskey for himself, leading to his family of eight’s starvation. Back in chapter three, Atticus explained to his daughter Scout, “When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains,” (Lee 31).