Baba would not encourage Amir to pursue writing because he didn't see it as a masculine thing to do. Perhaps one of the most prevalent differences between Baba and Amir is the way they see Hassan. In many ways Baba sees him as the son Amir should have been. Hassan is athletic, hard working, and exceptionally loyal. Amir treats Hassan like an underling, someone who makes him feel better about himself.
His siblings were all athletic and he was kind of the “nerd” of the family. He was outrageously smart and his family supported him one hundred percent. He just didn’t think that his dad was proud of him and I think that made him push himself so much more. His dad altered him to be a better man and doctor. Dr. Paul Farmer promoted his positive solutions all around the world.
I also think Nick and Gatsby shared a genuine friendship, Nick not only liked but also respected Gatsby – he felt that, like himself, Gatsby was an honest man who had tried his best to be a good person. 2. How was Jay Gatz’s childhood schedule consistent with the adult Gatsby’s behaviour? The clear schedule that Gatsby wrote in his youth – which Gatsby’s father shows to Nick after his demise – is the place in which young Gatsby wrote everything he wanted to achieve - it includes such items as “Be better to parents” – and demonstrates his constant need to better himself, whilst also providing us with a glimpse into what he was like as a child – eager, hard working and determined. This somehow mirrors his personality later on in life, shown through his pursuit of Daisy; even after the years that has passed he refuses to give up on her.
Romulus from Gaita’s biography Romulus my father explores the notion that belonging can only be achieved through intellectual and emotional investment into one’s own life and its surroundings. Romulus’ sense of belonging comes from far more than his simple labour on the land – it comes from the very essence of his character, the strong sense of who he is, defined by his actions. Raimond describes his father with the tri-colon of, “honesty, loyalty, courage and a capacity for hard work”. He further employs the anecdote of his father’s ability to transform metal into beautiful works of art, “He was so at ease with his materials…that they seemed to be in friendship,” to describe the relationship between labour, craftsmanship, and his father’s
Papa- Papa is a very prideful and theoretical man. “That cane Papa brought back with him he had carved and polished himself in North Dakota. When his limp went away he continued to use it. He didn’t need to. He liked it, as a kind of swagger stick, such as military officers sometimes use.” (Houston 34).
He was seen as a hero at home and in Australia. However on the front, the soldiers under his commanded resent him for the mistakes he made and for the false image that he gave himself in the press. Nevertheless, he is most remembered for his strategies which displayed his military genius and ability to save lives, even when the odds were unlikely. Consequently in this area they needed him, and they could do nothing but respect him. America and Australia were in desperate need of a hero.
He overcame bullying, Mr.Turner, and even his own Father. The second hero in October sky is John Hickam. John's most important traits are being Dedicated, having the power to save others, and being brave. In terms of being dedicated Mr.Hickam was in love with the mine. It was his life and he cared for it very dearly.
Not just through his set design was Australia prominent, but through the characters themselves. Roo represented everything masculine about Australia, its middle class men who worked their fingers to the bone to earn and honest living, their arrogance and independence was portrayed through Lawler’s characteristics in Roo. Barney was a symbolic larrikin, living for the Australian dream but never taking himself too seriously while providing the comic relief. Dowd represented a young Australian generation, fit, healthy and masculine. You could say he embodied all that Roo did in his prime, before he injures his back.
Lennie thrives off of George’s way of speaking about their dream and also the way he talks about him and Lennie’s unique and strong relationship “Guys like us that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place....With us it ain't like that. We got a future. We got somebody to talk to that gives a damn about us.” Lennie’s finds comfort
The actions of both Baba and Amir are destructive but ultimately, the reader sees the good in Amir whereas Baba fails to atone. Thus Baba’s deeds are shown by Hosseini to be more detrimental to those around him than that of his illegitimate son. Kite runner highlights how Baba’s choices are not only damaging towards the people around him, but to Afghanistan as a whole. Baba presents himself as a “black and white” man as he lives the moral code that “there is only one sin….theft”. At the start, Baba is viewed by the community as a patriarch, however as the novel unfolds, the reader sees the many flaws in his character and the hypocrisy of his philosophy through his interactions with others.