Sons Veto Essay

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The son’s veto essay The son’s veto by Thomas Hardy is a story that has different effects on the readers; those people who understand the olden language that the author uses in the story will get the story and the different themes the author is trying to put in, while other people who are not that good at English would not have a clue of what the author is trying to express. An example of one theme in The Son’s Veto was “unfairness between gender and class”, personally I think that was the main theme of the story because most of the quotes are about the son telling or correcting the mother’s actions. Quotes can be “Has, dear mother – not have! Exclaimed the school public boy.” That quote shows us that even a mere son of a mother can correct her and in an impolite and rude way. “His mother hastily adopted the correction, and did not resent his making it” also tell us that she has no power over her son, and that the son seems like the father of the mother instead. One final quote is “Why mayn’t I say to Sam that I’ll marry him? Why mayn’t I?” That quote also shows that she has no choice and freedom over her future. All the ways that Sophy is disabled and powerless we also can say that she is crippled. Not the type where she cannot walk but crippled in a way that she loss her right of doing things without permission of his son. “Taking no exercise she often could not sleep, and would rise in the night or early morning to lookout upon the then vacant throughfare.” That quote also tells us that all she can do every day was to stare out the window, clean up the house and wait for her son to come back from school. She is also crippled when Mr Twycott dies in London. Overall The Sons Veto has a lot of themes and is a very good
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