Luke is a very loving father, and he seems to show the most love to his daughter because she is the youngest, she comes and visits most often, and for the longest periods of time. Luke says “And if one of my sons had come to me that night, I would have phoned the police and told them to meet us with an ambulance at the top of the hill” (Dubus 117). Luke expresses that it is not that he loves his sons any less; but that he could bear to watch his sons take the punishment they would receive if they had done what their sister did. Even though he is protecting his daughter he is leaving a mark on the young man’s family. Luke doesn’t know that no one will find out about what happened.
Sheila is the only one which feels compassion from Eva’s death. The reader also sympathises with her because he is the only one which reveals against the power of rich classes. She is still a young woman and therefore she expects more to happen in his life, also as the play says she is “very pleased with life”. Sheila’s language is in a mid term between formal and informal due to his short age. Eric: His relations with his family are open; all the family knows his drink problem except his mother because he still sees him as a child.
I bought her a hot-water heater, and another one when it wore out…They were tiny things, inconsequential things. I did them because I was supposed to, because it was my turn to do things for her, and because I was trying to make up for any wrong I had ever done her.” (Bragg, pg. 151) His mother made many sacrifices for her boys when she was growing up, and Bragg was compassionate to his mother. He loved her so much and wanted her to live a comfortable life. This can strike a note with most readers, as most people feel attached to their mothers and would do anything to make them happy.
However he was able to get a job almost anywhere, usually in small towns for side jobs, because of how convincing he could be. Because of these things the family was constantly moving and when they couldn’t be fed and Jeannette never complained. She always forgave her parents for whatever they were going through. Once again Jeanette has to forgive her father for speeding and taking sharp turns in the car, because
Ruth realized that as much as she loved cooking that it made her under appreciate her father and not take time to learn about him or his interest because cooking was the big thing to her and her mother in their family. Doug learned that he didn’t have the family structure as Ruth did and he always yearned for family would listen and talk to him about his accomplishes and things he enjoyed. Ruth’s whole outlook on this chapter is to inform us about a part in her life as she does in every other chapter. It’s very hard to relate with Ruth’s made point in this chapter because I have never experienced a feeling like Ruth has. So I cannot really relate to how she feels.
The death of happened just a year after his parents called it quits with their marriage. A young William though kept it together helping to make arrangements for his mother’s funeral (Pettinger 2014). His mother was said to be very loving with her sons, even breaking royal protocol by hugging them publicly, taking them to amusement parks, and allowing them to have fast food; such as McDonalds (Pettinger 2014). Many say that Prince William got his loving nature from his mother. After his mother passed away Prince William had to adjust to not having his carefree and loving mother around to help him into becoming a great man.
All Chris cared about was making people laugh that was his life’s motive. He fed off of other people’s happiness even if he was miserable. Some say he may have had a form of a Somatoform Disorder or Behavioral Disorder. Chris was constantly sent down to the office for being extremely disruptive and disrespectful in class just to entertain his peers. Chris’s father never truly yelled at him for what he did just because of how cute he was as a child, Chris was usually allowed to do whatever he wanted this gave him this sense of empowerment but at the same time caused him to grow this self-independence.
His mother, Gail, protected him the best she could. David even had a baby sitter to look after him, Marie Little Soldier. However, David as a child simply thought she was the housekeeper. As an innocent 12 year old David thought “she was sexy” (p.26). David also looked up to his uncle, Frank, as an athlete, handsome and a genuine war hero.
From the outside Brian appeared as a caring and loving father and husband. But not many knew that Brian actually was an active member of the organization, Ku Klux Klan. - An organization which Maggie Johnson later turned out to be a part of. As a baby, Maggie Johnson was every parents dream. Unlike other children she rarely cried and this fell into good hands, both with the parents and their friends.
George was so mean to Lennie at first. Stienbeck proves this by stating, “I’ve beat the hell outta him, and he coulda busted every bone in my body…” (Steinbeck 40). This proves that George is like a big brother he is a strong leader, helpful, and condescending Lennie is always finding ways to make George’s life even more challenging than it already is. For example, Lennie has a mind of a 4-year-old boy and likes to touch soft things. Lennie seen a lady that was wearing a silk dress, and since Lennie likes soft things he then decides to grab the dress.