Comparative Essay Idris Jones (1048 words) Father-son relationships are vital to a healthy family lifestyle. In any culture around the world, the bond between a father and his son is one of the strongest and key to that cultures identity. In the movie, The Kite Runner by Marc Foster, the father-son relationship between Amir (Son) and Baba (Father) is one that has many levels to it. On the surface it may seem like a normal Afghan household, but as the scenes progress the political situation in Afghanistan and Amir starts to ask more rational questions, cracks in their relationship quickly show. In the movie Big Fish, by Tim Burton, the father-son relationship is shared by the characters Edward Bloom and William Bloom.
There is also “The Sarge”, Mike Marsh, who helps Dave out get his life together as well as Dan did. This autobiography shows a missing part of Dave’s life. He speaks about what he went through in his youth and what he had to do to build up his self esteem and overcome all that he was put through by his mother and others who saw him as nothing. As hard as it was for him, he shows that with the help of people he met that grew care for him, he was able to see what he was capable of by taking time out of their lives for him. First, one of the challenges Dave Pelzer faced in his youth was finally being taken out of his mother’s house and put into foster care.
The correlation between relationships and an individual’s sense of belonging can be clearly seen in the loving relationship between Romulus and his son Raimond. Both truly belong to each other through the unconditional bond of love between parent and child. The relationship also gives belonging to both through Raimond giving his father the strength to overcome constant tragedy as shown by the quotes “My son is everything to me." and “never say I don’t love you” and with Romulus doing everything in his power for his son to have a better life “he denied himself so I would have more”. The technique of anecdotes is used throughout the book to show how strong their love and sense of belonging to each other is such as how Raimond always feels safe and loved when riding with his father on their bike “Most of all, I remember his strong, bare, sun-darkened arms on either side of me as I sat on the petrol tank.” These anecdotes also allow the responder to connect more personally with the characters and their history and more fully understand their relationship.
Harlen Bigbear was a friend Will met following his mother’s funeral; this friendship was critical in many deep levels for the integration of Will in to the community. Harlen always tries to remove everyone’s obstacles by interfering with their problems; he reunites and revives the sense of community. Aware of Will’s position as a newcomer and eager to help, Harlen tries to get him more involved with the community. Of many attempts, getting Will to
This helps him find a way to cope with them may help you understand yourself more effectively. John is a man of strong moral beliefs any way he or she look at him, concerned only for the safety of his family and personal welfare. John Proctor is a big and strong man. He’s a man that everyone in the town looked up to. He is a loving husband, a hard working farmer, a proud father, and most important a faithful Christian.
Good fathers are like a stanchion of the family unit– they are able to use their strength to support their children and their families through difficulties. They are solid and hardworking, and assume the role of the masculine leader within their family. Families that do not have strong men at their core often lack the guidance that is essential to their functioning dynamics. William Faulkner’s, As I Lay Dying, generates a family that is entirely faulted. After the mother, Addie Bundren, dies every member of the Bundren clan makes a contribution to their eventual collapse; however, Anse Bundren’s flaws are the underlying factor of every catastrophe which the family encounters.
I think the narrator is a strong, proud, not easily influenced, and stoic. The many events and experiences when he was so young made him a strong person inside. In this narrative, Sherman Alexie argues the fact that just because people have looked down upon you and judged you your entire life based upon race; it does not mean you cannot do something important with your life. I think the author hopes to get this message across and inspire people of his own race and other races to succeed even though no support is offered. The first audience is the Native American population.
Wesley lives under the shadow of his brother Frank and as the story progresses he is slowly escaping it. However, despite Wesley’s wilted physique and lack of superiority in the Hayden family hierarchy, he possesses a great deal of moral virtue and mental strengths. First of all, Wesley’s leg injury leads to other factors to develop Wesley as a better and stronger man. In his life he goes through many obstacles, such as his failure to go to war, and thus becoming the underdog of the Hayden family. This is discovered when the patriarch, Julian Hayden, says to his son Wesley “Ever since the war…Ever since Frank came home in a uniform and you stayed home, you’ve been jealous” (118).
They all worked together and helped Lewandowski’s need. “We now feel ourselves like one big family” (Remarque 267). After the men help him, they feel even closer because they know they can do anything with these men. All of these men leaving their social world behind at home, formed a bond throughout the book which is why a generation of “lost” men was showed because these soldiers all came from different lives not knowing who they were to finding people that could help
English IV Ms. Duncan May 20, 2013 “Civil Peace” short story questions 1. The moral lesson promoted by Chinua Achebe in the short story “Civil Peace” is that working hard is something that needs to be done to succeed in times of doubt. Jonathan lost almost everything during the Civil War in his country, including the loss of one of his children. Although he had lost his belongings and a child he still looked at the situation as having “five inestimable blessings”. He made it out of the civil war with three out of his four children, his wife and the bike that he had buried, in hope that he would be able to find it.