In the excerpt from the letter written by Lord Chesterfield to his son, he implies that he would like to advise his son and also reveal his own values. The author uses several rhetorical strategies throughout the text, such as anaphoras, rhetorical questions, and metaphors, which indicate his own values. Lord Chesterfield uses long sentences, separated by colons or semicolons, which may suggest he wants to advise his son in a quick, but friendly manner. Lord Chesterfield uses irony by when he first addresses his son, he does not “mean to dictate as a parent; only to advise as a friend.” As the letter continues though, he hints to his son that he is his father, and indeed he wants him to listen and follow to what he is informing his son of. The author also continues to explain to his son that he is “absolutely dependent upon him” and that “he neither had, nor can have a
The act of the father begging his son to stay show the father’s desperation and this act of rashness further shows the complex relationship that the father has with his son. Through the author’s use of literary devices, Lee succeeds in showing a father’s relationship with his son. He uses structure to illustrates the change in the sons feelings toward his father. The point of view shows how the father feels about not being able to satisfy the desires of his son and the use of tone illustrates the father’s feelings of desperation in not being able to get his son to
He loses his confidence to talk closely with his father. But At the end of the story, the title, ‘the fine art of conversation’ shows how Tony has changed. And use of body language by ‘silence’ defines that how his father has emotionally touched his son. It shows that Tony is trying to keep silent himself to let Ant talk confidently. As a result, Ant expressed his feeling with no trouble.
This causes him to make decisions that the boy views as wrong in order to survive. Exile can also be enriching. Sophocles showed this in his Oedipus trilogy. Oedipus’ exile forced him to examine his life and therefore move past his mistakes and hope for the future. The father and sons’ experience is much the same.
This is the falling relationship between a son who always looked at his father as a role model but now wants someone knew to look at…simply because he feels as if there is something more this person could teach him. The syntax demonstrates the order of growth. The son at first seems to want to stay with the same old routine as always but finally breaks and tells his father that he wants a change. The father is skeptical at first
In the novel A Separate Peace, author John Knowles expresses the peer pressure put on towards Gene and the other boys made by Finny. Finny is constantly asking the boys to follow his footsteps, but Gene soon realizes he is questioning himself if doing these actions is the right decision. The most concern Gene has in the present moment is his studying and education. His concern for sports and exercising is much less of that; which he is only doing this to satisfy the wants of Finny. Saying this, with Finny being Gene’s “best friend”, Gene feels it to be his duty to go along with all of Finny’s adventures.
It may be that Jim can approach studying differently. Another variable could be the subject he is taking. If it is a subject he has no interest in, it may be harder to motivate him to learn about it and apply himself to studying. A subject he is not interested in may get him a D. A subject he is interested in may get him a B+. He could recognize that his father’s perception of him is partial and subjective, his father does not know what Jim is doing with his time, and by Jim saying he likes to hang out with his friends does not mean (in his father’s eyes) that he is partying.
“Words give us symbolic vehicles to communicate our creations and discoveries to others”. When Sonny told his father that he adopted a kid, the specific words he used had a strong influence on the dad’s reaction. Beebe, Beebe, and Ivy also noted that “when you label something good or bad you use language to create your own vision of how you experience the world”. In this particular scene, Sonny was stuttering a lot and his words symbolized his confusion of the current situation. Beebe, Beebe, & Ivy (2012) noted that “words and actions are tools we use to let someone know whether we support them or not”(p.76) Jack Gibbs has researched supportive and defensive communication for a couple years now and he defines defensive communication as “a language that creates a climate of hostility and mistrust”(p. 76-77) In the scene the father uses crude language and even goes to the extent of saying that “the kid would be better off living in a dumpster than with Sonny” (Adam Sandler).
Each theme has its own road and ideas, but they all lead back to loss. The city of loss and the three roads, of fatherhood, betrayal and identity. The first theme road I'll travel down is fatherhood, and the role it plays in the character's lives during The Kite Runner. Hosseini has used fatherhood in a strong yet subtle way throughout the novel; Amir takes the obvious father son role with Baba and underneath is Baba's discreet fatherly leanings towards Hassan. From Amir's narrative view we see a boy who strives to be something his father can be proud of and a father who is disappointed in his son.
As a parental figure, the Lord knows “how unwelcome advice generally is,”but reassuredly consoles his son “that I can have no interest but yours.” This qualification is subtle but important, establishing Lord Chesterfield as a beneficent presence, not as an intrusive force. The clearest examples of Lord Chesterfield’s use of understatement lie in the imperatives handed down to the son, as if to say “don not think…do not apprehend…” Lord Chesterfield wishes to expunge all possible misconceptions held by his son about his parental philosophy. The Lord is “not the censor” & does not “hint” how absolutely dependent you are upon me.” What he does instead is “point them out to you as conducive…” The Lord reveals his dubious morality to his son in his appeals to the son’s education as grounds for a competitive spirit and an overall complex that would have made Feud shrink. All of the education conferred upon the son, we are told, was done so upon the expressed assumption that “I do not confine the application which I recommend, singly to the view and emulation of excelling others…” In essence, the Lord conveys to his son a sense of an inherited privilege meant to elevate him above all in every possible