He even bores into Addie's face, but Cash still does not yell at him and simply mends the holes back. Anse, the father of all the children, does not care much about Cash's work or helpfulness. He at one point even gets in the way of Cash's work and Cash still treats him kindly, "[Anse] goes to the lantern and pulls the propped raincoat until he knocks it down and Cash comes and fixes it back. "You get on to the house," Cash says." Cash then leads his father back to the house and continues to work.
In Peter Skrzynecki’s ‘St. Patricks College’, and Jared McMillan’s ‘Fitting In: What no to do’, both the poet and the author have represented choices not to belong to a certain place and a certain group of people in their texts. Skrzynecki’s poem ‘St. Patricks College’ portrays ideas about the choice that the persona makes to not belong to the school that the persona’s mother had enrolled him in. The persona’s disrespectful behaviour of sticking ‘pine needles’ on the school motto indicates the lack of interest and pre-existing attitude towards the school.
There is a stark contrast in the ways Huck is treated by adults, and all have an effect on him. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the characters that represent a parental figure in different aspects of Huck’s development include the abusive ways of his biological father Pap, the soft and loving embrace of runaway slave Jim, and the civilized way of Widow Douglas. In the relationship between a father and a son, there is mutual love and respect. This does not exist in the relationship between Huck and Pap. "Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him these days.
Christopher Johnson McCandless' view of life and rejection of society is a reflection of his relationship with his parents whom he rejected based on their blind authority, materialism and social interactions" Christopher McCandless' behavior was shaped by his fathers domineering personality which favored control over his family and over logic discussions . The father-son relationship is an important and exceedingly difficult point in Christopher's life. He had, later on in the movie
Neither of the Finch kids ever calls their father “Dad” - he’s always referred to as Atticus. While he definitely puts his foot down when necessary, he also treats his kids with a surprising amount of respect and never simplifies his language when speaking to his children but he also is willing to explain patiently whenever they have questions. ‘Jem and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and we were at all times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.’ Part of Atticus' role as a father is a teacher, Scout and Jem's knowledge comes from Atticus. He teaches them the important life lessons that they can't learn from books or blackboards. So when Scout doesn’t want to return to school, Atticus doesn’t just tell her that she has to go and that’s that; instead, he listens to Scout’s explanation of why she’s upset, and tries to make her see her teacher’s side of things before coming up with a compromise that makes Scout happier.
It is after this that we hear from the narrative voice of Amir – he says ‘a book neither he nor his son could read’. The use of the declarative here shows Hosseini presenting Amir and Hassan as lower in class than Amir. Amir knows this well and is being presented with a book that he has full use of by people who know not how the read it. This is linked to the society of Afghanistan and how it is fiercely divided within class and status. Hazaras are severely discriminated against and are not treated as equals to Pashtuns.
H/W 25/2/13 How does John Betjeman create a sense of identity in “On a portrait of a deaf man” and one other poem John Betjeman creates a sense of identity in various ways. The poem is a tribute to his deceased father and the stark realization he believes in as he is very direct about death. Betjeman often writes about loneliness and death as he was passionate about the English way of life, which he believed to be dying out. The poem creates a fond memory of Betjeman’s father as it recalls many of his inconsequential actions and behavior. Betjeman does not use any euphemisms when talking about death to show that he has accepted it.
The connection between the absent father and the lost children. A. Williams puts an emphasis on the overtones of the absence of the father as logos, language, and power. B. The image of the absent father is not deleting or burying the father figure, but saving and magnifying the authority of father everlastingly. The Absent Father in The Glass Menagerie Mr. Wingfield has a relatively prominent influence throughout the play.
This challenge is faced by the characters in both Raimond Gaita’s memoir Romulus, My Father and Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird. Romulus feels disconnected from his society, whereas Raimond strives to conform to the Australian culture and find his place in this society. In Mockingbird, Atticus isolates himself from the expectations and attitudes of society out of his belief in his own values of equality and acceptance. However, Jem complies with society’s perspectives of class
Each one is from a different social group and they do not feel that they can spend time with each other in a friendly manner, leaving them to suffer Saturday detention by themselves. I remember a specific moment in high school where I was in detention and I was sitting alone. I felt bereft of friends and insecure. In fact, I began to get truly upset knowing that I would have to spend the rest of my day in seclusion without my friends or anyone I knew. It can be very upsetting to feel that you are ‘alone in a crowded room’.