The relationship between Bad Blake and his son along with Jeans son also played an important part of the book and film. Jean and her son Buddy become a catalyst for Blake beginning to get his life back on track in the book and in the film version. In the movie, Jean suggests that Blake call his son, but his son does not want a relationship with him. This part of the film was not in the book. In the story, Blake drives to Los Angeles to see his estranged son for the first time in over twenty years, but his son wants nothing to do with him.
After Telemakos went on the journey to find his father and helped him fight the suitors, he showed his courageous character. Throughout The Odyssey, Telemakos is a developing character; he begins as a shy and timid young boy, but grows into a very courageous man like his father Odysseus. Odysseus leaves for Troy when Telemakos is an infant. Therefore, Telemakos never had a true father figure to look up to throughout his childhood. However, he did take care of his father’s estate and his mother while Odysseus was gone, but because his mother raised him he wasn’t very outgoing.
The only person Huck could relate to was his friend Tom Sawyer; unfortunately Tom wasn’t the best role model for Huck. Huck’s father was a drunk that was never there when he needed him. Pap, Huck’s father, was extremely selfish; instead of being happy for Huck, Pap would always try to put him down. Pap didn’t like the fact that Huck was in school. Pap thought Huck was trying to out do him, "You've put on considerable many frills since I been away.
He named himself a “scholarship boy”; a student with poor resource coming from an uneducated family who live in a foreign country but who has an enormous desire to improve himself. Unfortunately, to achieve his goal he forces himself to get apart from his own culture and his family. The miss of education of his parents was not helpful for him until the point that he felt dissatisfied and embarrassed of them. Even thought, they were always behind him; to make his success possible, “they evened the path” he said (627). His parents’ goals were really admirable.
Throughout the film, The Patriot, a story about a family that wants nothing to do with war but that all changed until Gabriel, the oldest son, signs up for the war without his father’s permission. During the film, the Martin family goes through a lot of struggles and losses, but that does not stop their family to quit when the worst happens or ever gave up on each other, especially when Benjamin finally got the revenge he has been waiting for back on Colonel Tavington who killed both of his sons. This film showed a lot of bravery throughout the movie, first when Benjamin and his two younger sons when out to get Gabriel back from the redcoats after he was being accused of being a spy. The boys and their father had to take out twenty redcoats. Every time they went out on the field to destroy the redcoats it showed a big part of bravery.
His loyalty to family doesn’t allow for him to understand why he warns the De Spain family at such a young age. Faulkner describes how the Snopes family is emotionally conflicted due to Abner’s insecurities, how consequences of a father’s actions can change their lives, and how those choices make Sarty begin his coming of age into adulthood. Much can be the same for me and my life. My father’s actions gravely affected not only his own life but also the lives of all those in my family. Similarly, I feel that I was forced into a deeper sense of maturity that seemed beyond my age.
Happy has lived in the shadow of Biff his whole life, he feels that to get the attention he deserves he must strive to be more successful than his brother. When Willy was talking about Biff, Happy kept hinting that he was losing weight, but Willy seems to ignore him. “He is a marked-down version of his father, with not even a grand dream to cover his grossness. His only redeeming aspect is an easy-going fondness for his family” (Koon pg.37). Happy shows
I am now in college and my relationship with my dad has drifted apart more and more over the years. Yet, to this day, I still aspire to make him proud in everything I do and have changed my attitude for the better. Even though I wasn’t always better at every sport, my dad still showed me love and support. In order for me to receive my father’s acceptance, I had to make some sacrifices and have a better attitude with every aspect of my life, including my relationship with my brother. Sacrifices aren’t always easy and will not happen over night.
1. Although this is a commercial, it is also the most profound motivational influence I have seen in a while, so I had to put it on here. It is both inspiring and motivational for kids, adults and anyone feeling like they won’t achieve their dream. Derrick Coleman the first deaf NFL player discusses his struggles with becoming an NFL player. Being deaf coaches were unsure how to coach him, he was picked on by many of his peers and told to quit.
My disappointing performance during my sophomore year at BU came at a surprise to my father, who sacrificed in order to provide me with an education few people in my country received. No office space was set aside for me, only a place in factory along with the hundreds of blue-collar laborers who used good, old-fashioned hand great day in and day out. “You will start here and earn your way up,” my father ordered, and left me as i shook hands with many of my new peers. Nobody, besides the manager, was aware that my father owned the company, so I was viewed as just another worker. I worked with mixing and processing chemicals, a repetitive and rote role that was worlds away from the life I grew accustomed to in Boston.