The Nazis inhumanity and brutality slowly diminished his hope and desire to live. Despite Elie’s constant battle, it is from the interaction with other characters that he is able to maintain his hope. Elie depends on his father for support, and his love for his father makes him strengthen his hope and desire to live. When they arrived at the camp, his father said that he would rather Elie to go with his mother than to see what they were going to experience as men. The father began to cry and this was the only time that Elie saw his father cry.
A gutless fucking wonder!’ When Blacky explains to his father about the storm, Bob insults him rather than swallow his pride and takes his son’s advice on board. The relationship that is shared between Blacky and his father has negatively impacted Blacky’s self-esteem so much that it has led to him not having faith in his own father and to expect no support. During the novel, the desertion that Bob shows toward his son leads Blacky to be more independent, and he learns to expect no support from his father, as he cannot rely on Bob to look after him. The grand final, and Dumby Red’s funeral are examples of when Gary seeks his father’s input,
Bearing Up Yuseung Ohn 1. In my opinion, the main conflict in "Bearing Up" was internal. The protagonist, Mike, was involved in a man vs. self conflict, as the force of his dreams and nightmares were always subconsciously in his mind. Another minor conflict in the short story was when his father had been lost at sea during his rescue mission. This was not as major as Mike's dream conflict, but he had been even more troubled after finding out about his father's absesnce.
Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” is a tragic story of Willy Loman, the father of what can be considered a typical American family. Willy’s father was never there to teach him the importance of tradition, values, or healthy opinions. Willy has spent his whole life chasing the American dream of wealth and posterity working as a salesman. Now in his sixty’s he is suffering from memory loss, he has lost his job, and has no financial security. He never knew his father so he doesn’t have a good sense of his own identity, he makes poor decisions in raising his son’s by instilling a false sense of what it takes to be successful, and allows them to steal and cheat.
When they reach the shore, it is a sad moment when they realize one of their brothers did not make it. After the hard struggle for survival, nature still claimed the life of one. Throughout the story, Crane continually shows that nature is unconcerned with the fates of man. The narrator describes the seas in frightening detail as the
He was a captain on the original boat, after the boat sank he become injured and could not physically participate in keeping the dinghy afloat. The captain feels that he has lost his sense of direction due to not being used to letting others take charge. He feels disconnected from the world, and his sprit becomes dismantled. However, he led the way by specific instructions to the other characters in order to keep the dinghy afloat. The Correspondent is who the story is being told through.
1. In my opinion, the main conflict in "Bearing Up" was internal. The protagonist, Mike, was involved in a man vs. self conflict, as the force of his dreams and nightmares were always subconsciously in his mind. Another minor conflict in the short story was when his father had been lost at sea during his rescue mission. This was not as major as Mike's dream conflict, but he had been even more troubled after finding out about his father's absesnce.
When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to his father, which Biff slightly does. Willy falls into another flashback hallucination, one in which his son discovers his affair with a potential customer in Boston. From that moment on, Biff had never looked at his father the same. Back in the Lowman residence, Linda scolds her sons for abandoning her father back at the restaurant.
Obama’s early life of loss and displacement of his absent father leaves Obama with a self-created image of Obama’s father through the stories of his father from his mother and grandparents. Obama carries the single image of his father being “the brilliant scholar, the generous friend [and] the upstanding leader” through his life until he attains an altered image of his father being “ a bitter drunk, an abusive husband, and a defeated bureaucrat” from his sister Auma after organising a few arrangements to meet finally meet each other. Obama at a young age, not having his father in his life and having met him only once gave him a desire to search for his lost father through his family and by visiting Kenya. Obama goes through a journey of self-discovery in search of his own identity, with his mixed American and
The setting is described positively, but this positively describing is about to being ruined as the father remembers the dead of his son Willie. No matter how a beautiful and promising day it is, the father feels uncomfortable, and his feelings is described like this: “My life is burdened by the weight of this “dream”. It has always been like this, at least for some time, a beautiful morning with a happy, healthy child, and fear gnawing at my stomach.” This quote illustrates the contrast in the setting between a beautiful day, and the father’s feelings that is ruined the beautiful day. The contrast shows that the father is struggling with his life, and he also says: “I sense that I am seeing not only ahead but also behind, that I’m glimpsing my future as well as my past.” He does know, that he is stuck in the past, and it is really hard for him to separate the past (one life) from the life he is living now. The father’s life now and in the past, is kind of the structure of the story.