This shows that he didn’t value the life his father wanted for him. Paul was continually compared to a young man “whom it was his father’s dearest hope that he would pattern” (24). Paul could not see himself living up to this expectation. He knew this was a life he didn’t want, for whenever “he turned onto Cordelia Street he felt the waters close above his head” (19). He wanted to leave this life behind.
In the book, Gary talks about how his television images motivates him to have a way out of Fresno and it kept him fighting to find away out of poverty. He fought for a place where he can plan his roots and be accepted for who is. Gary also had many family conflicts but the biggest one was with his step dad. Gary’s lack of education and being mistreated in school made him think that his future was going to be living in Fresno the rest of his life like his parents did. Gary wants to break away from poverty and keep the next generation out of working in the fields or factories.
Tragic Desire In Willa Cather’s short story “Paul’s Case”, Paul makes selfish adolescent decisions to feed his desire for a wealthy and upper class lifestyle. Paul’s struggles to break apart from what his life is and what he wants it to be. Paul’s family and mentors send him into a sea of lies and fables that he uses to create his perfect world. There is always something we may want and cannot have but we will make moves to try to achieve them. As Cather explains: “He had no desire to become an actor, any more than he had to become a musician… what he wanted was to see, to be in the atmosphere, float on the wave of it, to be carried out, blue league after blue league, away from everything” (Cather ).
just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. "(Fitzgerald 1) Gatsby didn’t have help from others growing up, and learned his way through life. Once he managed to succeed in life, he intended on getting back the attention he once had from Daisy, the great love of his life. He carries hope throughout the entire book for their split to come back together. Tom Buchanan on the other hand, Daisy’s husband is a very wealthy man but selfish indeed.
In an attempt to increase the value of their lifeless bodies, millions of people invest money every month into a life insurance policy. Consequently, we are further developing the capitalistic mindset. Perhaps Willy is correct in saying “a man is not a piece of fruit (82)” one can “eat…and throw…away (82).” The efficiency of today’s world will not allow this to occur. Humanity has become so engulfed in the goal of making money, that we have designed a method of doing so past a person’s “useful” period. Whether we choose to end our own life, or let nature take it for us, we are all like Willy Loman.
Mr. Holland’s Opus is a tale of a man trying to juggle his dreams, his family, and his job. His life consists mainly of music. He is a composer who is forced to begin teaching at a high school in order to get some extra money to pay the rent. He is devastated to find out that his son was born deaf, especially because he wanted him to love and enjoy music as much as he does. He never really forms a strong relationship with his son Cole.
He starts with the present, son begging his father to tell him a new story. Of all the stories in the world, the father cannot think of an original story to tell his awaiting son. The father is afraid that his son will soon give up on him and not come back. The poem than flashes to the future, father depressingly watching his beloved son pack up and leave. But that is not here
You would think because he missed his son’s birth, he would try to make up for it and be a great father. But he was never around to raise his son and do fatherly things with William, like teach him valuable life lessons and such. As an adult, William tried to let his father know that their relationship wasn’t steady because William only knew so much about his father, and the rest were fabrications. All he wanted to know was the truth, and Edward kept telling tall tales. This only caused the deteriorating relationship between father and son to
“Paul’s Case” is about a young boy named Paul, who is miserable with both his home life and his school life. Paul shows his happiest times when he is at Carnegie Hall, working as an usher; whereas here, Paul daydreams a great deal about the performers in front of him and how he wants their lavish lifestyle that results in failure of his school life. Once his father, a single parent, discovered his behavior, he forces him to quit working at Carnegie Hall, apologize to his teachers and go work elsewhere. Paul’s father spends his time setting a good example for him, not realizing that he is pushing Paul away when he constantly keeps pressuring his son to follow a neighbor of theirs for he believes that he would be a good role model for Paul. Paul’s teachers are also giving up on him, saying that he is nothing but impolite and a disturbance in class.
First, one of the challenges Dave Pelzer faced in his youth was finally being taken out of his mother’s house and put into foster care. In the beginning, he thinks that being a foster kid is going to be good but it took him a while to realize that it wasn’t what he dreamt it to be. Though he was away from abuse from his mother, foster care meant constant move for him. With all the moves he had to go through, he never really got the chance to fit in and become part of something. As soon as he felt like he was finally settling down, he left the family he was staying with.