Schooling isn't that important to the Amish because they aren't going to go to college. But, if someone was to try to leave the Amish and come to our society, they are looked down upon and they usually have trouble fitting in. Once you leave the Amish, you are not allowed to come back. The only exception to coming back is if you admit to your wrong doing, then you have to be accepted. It works the same way if Americans were to try to join; they have to give up everything they know and be accepted into the Amish culture.
That is why only Ikram has friends, because he was able to make two while attending school. Also they cannot go to a Hindu temple because the closest one to where they were living was two cities down, and time will not allow them to go. Their faith in their religion was strong but became stressful at the same time. As for employment, the father was no longer and accountant but a local taxi driver, until he found time and money to study the flied again in Canada. The mother picked up a job as well, noticing that the bills were much more expensive to pay This was also extremely stressful for the family because they were not getting to see each other as much as they have in the past.
Mike, however, was committed to his family and did not like the idea of keeping boarders to obtain more money for he didn’t want his wife, Mary, to overexert herself. After Mike died, Mary was left with little money to survive and support their four children. Dobie, like Mike, was committed to his family and was determined to update his home life to keep his wife, Julie happy. Dobie and Julie were constantly in debt from buying new appliances such as a stove, washing machine and refrigerator; however, Dobie never let money issues consume their
The hitchhiker is actually twenty-four years old and claims to be named Alex and to come from South Dakota. Alex seems to be carrying a light load for someone planning to live off the land for a few months, as he says he will do in Denali National Park. As Alex elaborates on his plan, Gallien tries to make him change his mind. Gallien is certain that Alex is not prepared for life in the Alaskan outdoors. Gallien even offers to buy him some decent gear, but Alex refuses.
She explains the struggle of only having little food there because it was the ones her parents brought her during the weekends but she had to save it in order for it to last. When she finally gets back from the 45 day camp stay, her father has made up his mind up his mind and wants him and his family to leave
Randy is a male filling the roles of both father and husband. As a father, Randy wants to be there for his children. As he indicated, he does not want to be a weekend father; he wants to be a full time dad. As a husband, Randy wants to provide for his family in the most efficient way possible. To him, wasting money on two residences for their family of four does not make much sense, especially when he wants his family there with him.
Ka’s father tries to hide his identity throughout the novel because he does not want his past to catch up with his present life. Ka never understood why her father always changed where in Haiti he came from. It was not until he confuses to Ka everything that he did as a Dew Breaker that it all makes sense, “Mr. Fonteneau asks my father he is from in Haiti, and my father lies. In the past, I thought he always said he was from a different province each time because he’d really lived in all those places, but I realize now that he says this to reduce the
He is afraid of what the society would think of him just like when he says “no one’d believe me” (page 296). So that is why Bone change his identity because he wants to be a new person. As he says “I’m a new person with a new name” (pg. 107). Bone doesn’t know how to deal with his stepfather or the society so he changed identity.
Mr. Shimerda moved his whole family to Black Hawk in order to give his eldest son Ambrosch, a better life. As all the Shimerda’s started on the road towards their American dreams, Mr. Shimerda’s dream is unsuccessful. As Mr. Shimerda is unable to provide the necessities for his family, he began to borrow many things from Jim’s family. Mr. Shimerda’s depression caused by his lack of ability to provide for his family, foreshadows his ultimate suicide. The American dream of Mr. Shimerda was lost due to his loss of faith in himself.
Though Cory loves his family and doesn’t want to push them away he also feels the fence is holding him in. Cory wants to leave Pittsburgh to pursue a football career and go to college. Every Saturday Troy forces him to work on the fence instead of going to football practice. Troy making Cory work on the fence symbolizes Troy holding Cory back from his aspirations and Cory resents him for it. The play Fences by August Wilson is titled Fences not only because of the plot, but also due to what the fence represents for each of the characters.