Polished: make something shiny. Offices: situation and position. ……………………………………………………………………………………….. Paraphrasing: Sundays too my father got up early And put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, The poet is trying to show us that his father is a hard working man so he also works on
Hayden goes into detailed explanations of examples of the father’s devoted love. His love is not shown through hugs and kisses, but through caring little things that bring happiness to the speaker’s day. This happiness can be seen by the regret the speaker shows when he says things such as, “No one ever thanked him” (5). The father’s devotion is seen when the speaker states that he had “with cracked hands that ached / from labor in the weekday weather made / banked fires blaze” (3-5). The father, regardless of his own cares, makes the effort on those winter Sundays to try to make things a little easier for the speaker.
“Reunion” by John Cheever is a short story about Charlie who hasn’t seen his father since his parents’ divorce. So on his way back to his mother’s house he schedules a lunch with his father. Yet Charlie’s view on his father changes when his father continually has problems controlling his bad attitude. In “Powder and “Reunion” the authors use father/son relationships, point of view and conflict to portray to the reader that almost all father and son relationships have their flaws. In the two short stories it seems as if the sons’ relationships with their father were quite different, but they also had their similarities because both of them cared for their son.
Charlie Feehan had a hard life before he won the Ballarat Miles competition. The protagonist was already in a difficult position at the start of the novel. After his father has passed away, Charlie had to ‘stepped into long the pants of adulthood’ and take on the responsibility of a grown up. This shows that he had to step in and be ‘…the man of the house’ at a very young age, whereas nowadays teenagers were barely independent even after they have graduated for university. In Charlie’s conditions, even a rabbit stew or a warm water bath was to be looked forward to on a Saturday night and warmth was from the ‘…pieces of fallen bark’ which he gathers from Mr Peacock.
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.
During these few year many considered to be the unhappiest times of Whitman’s life. He was consistently working hard for very little pay. Whitman recorded his sadness in several letters he wrote to a friend by the name of Abraham Leech. In of these letters it became quite evident of his dissatisfaction and no hope for the people of the area when he said, “Never before have I entertained so low an idea of the beauty and perfection of man’s nature, never have I seen humanity in so degraded a shape, as here” (Folsom.) As a result of Whitman’s dissatisfaction he sought to reinsert himself back in the world of Journalism in New York.
The ideal man provides for his family materially and is brave on the battlefield. Second, the unbalance plays a part in the lives of the clan members. For instance the main character in the novel, Okonkwo, is extremely focused on being super masculine and finds everything feminine less worthy, leaving him very unbalanced. This unbalance leads him to violate the feminine beliefs such as peace. For instance, during the “Week of Peace” Okonkwo came home to find that his second wife had not returned from her friend’s house in time to cook dinner.
They come down to the kitchen and catch up talking, they remember the good ‘ol days when they were younger. Happy is the younger brother, he is successful and confident. Biff is not doing as well as Happy, but has dreams of owning his own land and having a ranch. Willy begins having flashbacks and expressing his worries about the boys while talking to himself around the house. Willy and Biff fight a lot because Willy doesn’t like the fact his son cant hold a job down.
In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world. The narrator was not satisfied with his brother, which resulted in the horrible things he thought about him. Brother said that “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable…” As a result, the narrator enjoyed torturing Doodle, threatening to abandon him multiple times. He even took Doodle to see the casket that was built for him, and forced him to touch it. The narrator basked in the control he had over his brother.
Martin’s relationship to his father is also a little tense; they don’t seem to get along that well. Martin has a long braid in the back and he says that this braid is what gets to the father. Even though he failed three classes and is a bit criminal. Martin and the father don’t know what to talk about either. Martins father work a lot, so I guess they never just talk, because there isn’t time to get to know each other.