More than anyone, a boy needs his father to approve of him and teach him how to be a man. Well, his father did not show him the love he required growing up. In all of Paul’s efforts to please his father, he was ignored and inadequate to his father’s expectations. In fact, his father praised a young man that worked as a clerk and insisted that Paul ought to be more like that gentleman. His father refused to give Paul money and argued that he has a job, so he can pay his own expenses.
Hayden goes into detailed explanations of examples of the father’s devoted love. His love is not shown through hugs and kisses, but through caring little things that bring happiness to the speaker’s day. This happiness can be seen by the regret the speaker shows when he says things such as, “No one ever thanked him” (5). The father’s devotion is seen when the speaker states that he had “with cracked hands that ached / from labor in the weekday weather made / banked fires blaze” (3-5). The father, regardless of his own cares, makes the effort on those winter Sundays to try to make things a little easier for the speaker.
He understands now because he is a little older, but just as I was, he was always worried that something happened to his father. The two of us would be up late hours, sometimes two to three nights in a row hoping nothing bad happened.” An interviewee said this. Fathers cause uneasiness in the home. The family gets
Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” is a tragic story of Willy Loman, the father of what can be considered a typical American family. Willy’s father was never there to teach him the importance of tradition, values, or healthy opinions. Willy has spent his whole life chasing the American dream of wealth and posterity working as a salesman. Now in his sixty’s he is suffering from memory loss, he has lost his job, and has no financial security. He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat.
In fact, we could say that his problems started with the obstacles that his parents faced. Both of his parents, Henry and Tina Johnson, were ex slaves. Also, his father suffered from an atrophied right leg (5). However, his father was always ready to overcome his shortcomings. Ward says “Despite his injury, despite the fact that he could not read and that neither he nor his wife could write, Henry Johnson never failed to find ways to support his family” (6).
Polished: make something shiny. Offices: situation and position. ……………………………………………………………………………………….. Paraphrasing: Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, The poet is trying to show us that his father is a hard working man so he also works on
He never remembers and celebrates our birthday. In fact, he never gives mother a surprise for their marriage anniversary. Also, he is a rigid and strict father for us. He trains us to be discipline
My Dad was the sole provider in our household but we always made it. My Mom is a housewife and I have two sister and a younger brother. Yes, we had tough times where my Dad lost his job, he has been on unemployment several times but never accepted welfare and an option. My father believes a man should work to provide for his family, being on welfare is not acceptable for him. He feels ashamed to raise his kids on Government money.
Bruno goes to visit Shmuel daily, but never tells anyone of his activities, even under the heavy questioning of his sister. Bruno soon learns the real reason, or what Gretel thinks is the real reason, that Shmuel (and the other people) are being held captive. They are Jews. Bruno never fully comprehends why the Jews are hated but the "Nothings," as Gretel put it. The young boy journeys to the fence on a daily basis, and Shmuel often tells him about life at the camp; he hates it.
I will never forget any of the punishments. Till this day every time I talk about it I start to choke up. I guess I can say that I was always afraid of my father and I really never felt affection from him. There was always just distance. Don’t really remember a lot of hugging or “I love you’s”.