So they just kept holding the thought that black people were not deserved to be treated equally. Baldwin and his father, the first and second generation of freemen, was a typical example of discrimination in this time. Throughout this essay, Baldwin has explained his strained relationship with his father because of all the anger and paranoia his father expressed during his childhood. But also at the same time, he regretted that he did not get to know him better when he was alive since the moment Baldwin realized that his father was only trying to protect him from racism. By going through all the experiences that Baldwin and his father had earned by their skin color, he himself have learnt about what position he and Negroes in general were placed in by the society in that time and how he has figured a way out.
Now, let’s look at what a short summary of Gates’ essay would look like: In the essay “What’s in a Name,” Henry Louis Gates expresses his viewpoint on the discrimination that his parents, particularly his father, experienced during his childhood in the South. The specific example that Gates refers to involves an incident where a shopkeeper who was friendly with his father referred to him as “George,” a name that Gates now realizes was a popular way of referring to African Americans in those times. Perhaps because his father made good money and the shopkeeper felt uneasy about his status, or simply because of the color of his skin, Gates’ father had to accept this discrimination and there was nothing he could do about it. As his mother told young Gates, “It was one of those things” (p. 6). (A summary should be Complete, Accurate, Brief, Independent, and Neutral
Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate.” (Achebe 208-209). The commissioner intends to write a book documenting the Ibo culture. He is unaware, and likely uninterested in knowing the full story of Okonkwo’s life. “one must be firm in cutting out the details.” (Achebe 209) Okonkwo had just realized that his tribe was doomed because of their weakness. He decided to take his own life as a result of a lifelong struggle to help his clan by being a strong and hardworking man, in an attempt to distance himself from his weak and unsuccessful father’s reputation.
He fought back and gave speeches against such oppression against him and his people. To quote one of his speeches only “One third of the population of the South is of the Negro race” and he fought and taught them as his goal to stop the oppression they faced. Next, even the character of Tateh who was depicted as the typical immigrant was discriminated against. He, like many others, traveled to this country to solve his “economic problems and support” his family. He and his minority were forced into poverty and “less than sufficient” living conditions.
People who are able to deal with family issues, learn from past mistakes, keep hope alive, and realize that death is not the answer are able to have a new beginning and essentially have the life they desire. A family is supposed to help with problems, not create them. A family is supposed to make a person feel loved and accepted, but sometimes a person can feel as if their family is their worst enemy. When Henry is arguing with his father after their war he says, “I have no mother. Get it through your head.
to criticize the radicalism. Hughes tried to enlighten the poor black men likewise Mrs. Jones would teach Roger “right from wrong” in this novel. When this novel was written in 1959, the problems of the poor black men were very serious in a racial society. Although they are eager to have the American Dream, it was frustrated by racial discrimination. As the result, the poverty was inherited to next generation repeatedly.
The expected reaction to his father’s rare appearances would be what the child did in the story. He is too young to understand that his father is an important part of his life also. 2. Larry is not reliable as the narrator of events. He is obviously biased against his father and wants his mother’s sole attention.
Hally constructs an identity which, by many people, might perhaps be regarded as negative. He is full of shame for several reasons, and lacks self esteem. Hally is influenced by the negative image of his father, who seems to be an antagonist in the play, without realizing it. Though Hally’s father is only mentioned, and never appears on stage in person, he is a major part of the conflict Hally finds himself in. Hally lives in a society where “whites” are superior to “non-whites”.
Achebe described Okonkwo's father in this way: “Unoka (Okonkwo's father) …was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow.” (Achebe 4) In contrasting that to the culture I have been brought up in, it seems that the majority of men who had a father like Unoka responded in living their life in trying to make up for what their father lacked in his – which is the same idea that I felt that Okonkwo's goals and ideas were based on. I say this because of how often he had to fight the urge to show affection or love to his children and wives, and also to his believing that if he told Nwoye stories of battle and destruction that Nwoye would become more of a man. I feel grateful that I have been raised in a family that the idea of showing affection is encouraged, and that there is nothing wrong with the feminist traits of women, and that it is ok for me to have them. I have been raised to always express yourself through words and emotion, and in some cases physically. If one of my five sisters or one of my 4 brothers did something nice for me I wouldn't just turn my shoulder and pretend like nothing happened or just stare at her/him with indifference, but I would
Thus, this lack of cohesion and differences between the family expectations and the family members shall be explored in order to unearth the reason for the Compson family’s decline, which will include social development, character roles, the loss of identity, and overall the degeneration of the family. Firstly, a well known symbolic interactionist, George Herbert Mead has stated that that the fundamental unit of organization in society is the family, this case is true when exploring Faulkner’s theme of family as if a family does not live up to expectations, the family would most likely be shunned by society. This is shown as a constant fear among some members in the Compson’s family, for example, since the Compson’s family name is tainted, the mother is always reassuring her son Jason that “you are a Bascomb, despite your name.” However it may seem just an excuse blaming the Compson’s name for her own failure in bringing up her children as parents are meant to be the first stage of a child’s social development, meaning any malfunction of a child’s social development would be the parent’s fault in upbringing as children will most likely inherit traits from their primary their agents. For example, Mrs Compson