The father began to cry and this was the only time that Elie saw his father cry. Elie felt emotion and love from his father, which made him feel safe and cared for. Elie relies on his father and needs to be with his father in the camp. When he is going through selection before a Kommando, he begs the officer saying, “I want to stay with my father,” (48); a sad cry from child that softens the Kommando’s heart. Elie and his father have a strong relationship and Elie wants to survive with his father.
Henry is at a constant battle with his family. He feels abandoned and secluded by the ones that are supposed to always be there. He feels as if they never truly loved him or accepted him as a part of this family. “We’re a family, aren’t we? And a family turns inward toward itself in grief; it does not go in separate directions, pulling itself apart” (Guest 117).
He has learned to adapt without her in his life but her memory still influences every aspect of his life. Josie’s loss is different as it happens when she is older and more mature. Josie’s friend John had been suffering from depression and his father’s need for him to succeed. John felt that he had no other choice but to commit suicide so he overdosed himself to end his life. Even though the two characters are at different points in their lives when they experience their loss, both grieve deeply for their loved one.
For Matt and Ruth, this couple have to cope with the loss of their youngest son Frank, who was gunned down in cold blood by Richard Strout, the husband of Frank’s girlfriend Mary Ann. For Matt and Ruth, they suffered on multiple levels. They had to cope and heal from the loss of their beloved son, who had a beautiful future ahead of him, but also experience other injustices such as seeing Richard Strout walking around town, flaunting his freedom, while their son was dead. Matt, in a conversation with his close friend Willis Trottier, remarked, “Every day since he got out. (he was asked how often he thought about Strout since the murder) I didn’t think about bail.
We are told about the love Aeneas harbours for his parents but also his parents for him. in troy Aeneas goes to save his father and leave the city as instructed to do so by his mother. He did not have to listen to his mother and could have left his father in troy but Aeneas went back to collect his father, son and wife and wanted to get them to safety. Aeneas shows Piats here and does so throughout the book. While on their journey to find Italy Anchises passes away, Aeneas is heartbroken and once again had to endure another death.
Then the material that shows through the unconscious, which in this case would be his dream. Repression is a defense mechanism to things that an individual is not able to accept, and in Conrad’s case we learn that he wasn’t able to accept that he was able to survive the boating accident and not his older brother Buck. In the Jarret family dynamic his brother was looked at as the strong athletic through his mothers eyes. Later in the movie when Conrad is in therapy with Dr. Berger they are talking about the accident he proceeds to ask Conrad what was the one wrong thing you did and Conrad replies, “I hung on, I stayed with the boat.” He feels ashamed to face his mother Beth everyday and tell her that he was the stronger one and was able to hold because Beth does not love Conrad the way that she loved Buck. With the unfortunate relationship that Conrad has with his mother, he needs to realize and accept that he was the stronger one; he’s the one she doesn’t love as much, and the one
How, then, does a person know how to react when one whom they loved is torn from them? For most, merely burying themselves in grief and depression is not an option; one must continue to live and fulfill the duties of a daughter, brother, wife, or father. In the film produced by Peter Jackson “The Lovely Bones”( based on Alice Sebold’s novel of the same title), Jack Salmon does an adequate job of keeping his composure as he suffers the loss of his daughter and wife. This essay is devoted to the father figure presented in the film, and to the prominently displayed father-daughter relations. The Salmons are a typical family of two parents, and three children: fourteen-year-old Susie, thirteen-year-old Lindsey, and three-year-old Buckley.
I caught him just before he fell when he took the first steps he ever took in this world.” (5) It is this greater than sibling connection between the narrator and Sonny which causes the narrator to care for Sonny almost like a father. As Sonny suffers, the narrator feels this suffering however he cannot process this pain until the end of the story when he finally hears Sonny play. Towards the end of the story we see both love through empathy as well as the constant symbolism of light. It is this light which provides a sense of salvation, comfort, and spiritual love, almost comparable to the moment when Jesus is resurrected and
Losing a Loved one Losing a loved one is hard to deal with sometimes. Everyone has to go through it one way or another. Dealing with it is not easy, believe me. It’s really hard when you don’t know what the body is going to go through. It takes a toll on the body, and the way of life as we know it.
What is more, children who living in divorce families usually suffer " parental loss ". Due to divorce leads to the separation between one of the parent and the children, they are more difficult to get love and care from this seprarte-parent than before. When they get in trouble, they have less chance to express their emotions. Psychological problems are often caused by these stress. In economic aspect, children lose one of their parent financial support after their parents divorced.