Student Student Holden, Changed by Past Events During the course of Holden Caulfield’s life, there have been many events that have changed Holden into the person he is today. Due to a rough childhood, Holden had a tremendously tough time transitioning into adulthood. Such things as his younger brother’s death, and his older brother moving to Hollywood contributed to Holden becoming depressed. A chain reaction started. Holden was kicked out of several schools, and he was left on his own at Pencey.
Father became ill from “camp fever”. He was sick for about two weeks and then one night he was steering the wagon and he just dropped. We all knew what this meant he looked pasty white and he wasn’t breathing. I couldn’t look. I was terrified.
In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”. The repetition of the word “baby” tells the reader that Singh is happy being married to his wife and that he gives her a high status in his life. The repetition of “my bride” is triple refrained which perhaps suggests that Singh has a surprising nature about his wife. This creates an interesting character as it tells us that he is willing to stop working and go against his father’s orders just to spend time with his wife. Despite the criticism he receives from his customers, Singh seems to hold his wife as a major and main priority in his life and could suggest that his emotional and mental wellbeing depends on his wife.
Hamlet is presented as a devoted son to the memory of his father, King Hamlet. In the beginning of the play, the audience recognizes Hamlet’s difficulty to except his father’s death. This is because of great amount of love, respect and admiration he has for his father as well as the disgust he has towards the hasty marriage of his mother and his uncle. One example that shows Hamlet’s loyalty to his father is in the beginning of the play when he is the only one still in mourning. Because his loyalty to his father is so strong, he continues to mourn his father even though his uncle and his mother have already persuaded the court as well as the kingdom to embrace the new reign.
They include having many failures, not having any close friends, and the loss of his younger brother Allie. Since his many failures at school, Holden has been in a downward spiral that will eventually lead to his mental break down. Not being able to talk to any close friends makes Holden’s depression much worse. Holden thinks that he should be dead instead of his brother Allie which does not help with his depression. If Holden’s parents had let him go to a school near his apartment he might have been able to establish a few long term relationships.
Another reason is that josh doesn’t live up to his dad’s expectations. Josh’s band is in a bit of a rough patch and he is finding himself losing interest in his girlfriend Alicia. Michael is the troublesome son who’s constant ring ups to remind the parents of their heartbreaks brings Michael to feel a mixed amount emotions but overall unhappy. Michael is five years older than Josh and is estranged from his parents, living outside Sydney. He had almost died from alcohol poisoning when he was 16 and had been in trouble with the police.
94). Heart breaking, tears rolling, he states this after suffering through much pain after seeing both his son and wife dead. Many times I find it hard to hold the truth after miserable events happen. For example, when I was young I held the burden of knowing that my grandfather died. After that event in those early years of my life it continued to be hard for me to understand that there stands no chance of seeing him again .
He figures this out when visiting his old home in California. He was furious. This was untruthful of his dad, and that's one thing that Chris hates most. Because of this incident he stopped talking to either of his parents and was withdrawn for the first time in his life. “Chris's smoldering anger, it turns out was fueled by a discovery he'd made two summers earlier, during his cross-country wanderings... Chris pieced together the facts of his father's previous marriage and subsequent divorce-facts to which he hadn't been privy.” (p. 121) This is not good mainly for Chris and his dad's relationship and also his mom and him.
In Night Elie Wiesel and his father are in a concentration camp. His father falls very weak and ill, and it is getting harder to care for him. Elie must make a choice what is worth more- his life or his fathers. Therefore, both main characters have had to make tough choices which leaves both of them with feelings of guilt and
My first love is shattered by separation across the globe. As he watches the girl he loved in a casket, he tells us how "unreal" the situation was for him and how he never fully accepted her death. My parents decision to move to the United States was also unreal to me. I could not accept the fact that I had no say in this matter because of my age and because my parents were the ones with "autority". I remember crying every night, feeling deviastated about the situation and my fear of separation.