His father even said to him that, “his father traveled for the Rebbe”, which shows how it is destiny for the men of Asher’s family to travel for the Rebbe and make the family name proud (10). All of this pressure and criticizing from his father makes it extremely hard for Asher to choose what he wants. He has trouble deciding if painting and having free will can make him happy, or if his destiny planned by his family will make him unhappy. However, as the book goes on Asher’s destiny begins to
Incredibly he has to fill these shoes of glory and honor which makes his goal a very challenging one. He still lives in his boyish phase in which he is questioning his next actions and whether or not his father is actually dead. However, Athena visits and speaks to him about the possibility of his father’s survival, and gives him guidance to his next move. From this action I can conclude that Telemachus still needs much advice on how to become a leader. What stands out as well is his position against his mother’s resentment of the bard’s song which entails of the heroes who fought in the battle of Troy.
He has conflict in his mind that his family can never fit into his community, he also feels pressured to fit into his community hence he forces his family to adapt to the culture of the community for example, having to persuade his wife to carry out circumcision on his son on discovery that the youngest son Sajid was accidentally not circumcised as is preferred in Islam, Sajid is promptly taken to the hospital to get circumcised. He also expresses his embarrassment about his son Nazir
7. Why is there so much more conflict between Biff and his father? There is so much more conflict with Biff and his father because Wily wants to mold his son Biff into a success that he thinks the American Dream holds for him. Although his tries throughout this molding he fails. Another reason why there was so much conflict was because Biff caught him cheating on his mom.
He wanted to protect him from the bad influences, but he was only scared of his son’s gift because he didn’t know what it meant for him. He didn’t know that painting made Asher happy, sometimes. Growing up he began to accept it little by little. “He seemed unable to believe it. Almost despite himself, his dark eyes glittered with pride.” When he began to realize how famous and important his son was becoming he tried to accept the gift and him.
James does not know truly who he is, mainly because he is “dark skinned” while his mother is “light skinned”. But as he grows older, James is influenced by his mother, and her faith in God. Not only does this help James become closer to his mother, but it helps him start to notice who he really is. James’ step-father, Hunter Jordan, also influences him by showing James that hard work is worth it, and it takes a lot of work to support a family as big as they had. This assisted James notice that he has the ability to become anything that he wants to, and he just has to work hard and not lose his determination.
All a father wants is the best for their sons; however, some fathers tend to push their sons into something they might not be interested too. Because of these high expectations, it can cause risk between their relationship and loss of interest. A Father’s Expectations
This can be observed when Vladek wakes up Artie early in the morning to ask him to help fix the roof (page number). Artie refuses and we can later on observe Artie telling his wife that he rather feel guilty than to travel to Queens to help his father (page number). Then once he was with his father, he started feeling guilty he asked his father if he needs help fixing anything (II, 99). The guilt of not helping his father ate up at him and he realized with wasn’t very son like of him not to help his father out. Another example of Artie feeling guilty about not being a good son is seen when he goes to see his therapist.
It was confusing to tell what he narrators true feelings were throughout the story, but I believed that he loved his brother. When his brother couldn’t walk and the narrator was kind of ashamed of him, he secretly started to try to teach him how to walk. The reason he started teaching him how to walk might have been selfish but I do think that he did care about
Pilgrim has a hard time adjusting after he gets home from the war. He marries for comfort and security, with no true feelings of love. He follows in his father-in-laws footsteps as an optometrist because the road to success in that field was paved with ease for him. His father-in-law put in most of the effort for him to be successful. Billy Pilgrim is traumatized, stressed and seems to be a very pathetic individual.