From the opening pages, McCarthy depicts the love and protection the father has for his son as they continue their impossible journey. McCarthy successfully depicts this relationship’s growth, while writing the same high standards for despair that he is most known for. Through the “dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him” (3). In just the first sentence, McCarthy manages to outline the entire story. In a world that God has abandoned, where the sun no longer shines through the ashes, the hope that the father and his son will survive ultimately gives the reader something to look forward to.
In addition, both Dante and Chaucer wrote their works in the vernacular or the commonly spoken language of the times. Although their works are similar in theme, they significantly differ in style. Dante and Chaucer used two completely different writing styles in composing their works. Dante was the first to use what is called Terza-Rima, an interlocking three line rhyming verse stanza while Chaucer used what is known as a Heroic Couplet. This style was constructed by using sequential pairs of rhyming iambic pentameter lines.
4. What is the narrator’s tone towards his brother? How can you tell? The narrator's tone towards Doodle was technically you do what I say when I say do it or don’t bother trying to deal with me. I say this because since the very beginning of the text the narrator threatened to leave the brother if he didn't touch the coffin, and when the narrator pushed Doddle to stand up and walk.
Upon first entering a concentration camp, Elie is reliant on his father to protect and watch over him, just as any son would be. When Elie and his family arrive at Birkenau, a “killing” camp, Elie is immediately separated from his mother and sister when the women are forced to part from the men. Elie now has only father to cling to: “My hand tightened its grip on my father. All I could think of was not to lose him, not to remain alone” (Wiesel 30). Left with only his father, Elie’s main goal becomes to avoid their separation.
William Faulkner received the O. Henry award for the year’s best work of short fiction. In William Faulkner’s “Barn Burning,” the main character is Colonel Sartoris Snopes or “Sarty” for short. This young boy is torn between loyalty to his father and morality, and this story deals with that struggle. Sarty is a “round” character, changing through the story as he moves from “sticking to his own blood” to thinking more of himself and his own welfare. At first, he is extremely loyal to his father, as we see with most young boys they think their fathers can do no wrong, they place them on a pedestal and look up to them.
Jonson again tries to stop the feeling of grief by saying that his son was lucky to have missed, “no other miserie, yet age?” This suggests that Jonson is glad that his son has escaped old age. The theme of “On my first Sonne,” is very simple, a father’s grief at the death of his young son. This feeling is similar in “Mid-Term Break,” as it is of grief at a young person’s death. At the start of his poem, Heaney explores how a variety of different people dealt with this grief and then goes onto subtly hint at what he felt, whereas Jonson just talks solely about his personal experiences and feelings towards his dead son. “Mid-Term Break,” is overall more subtle in telling the reader about the poets grief.
Robert E. Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” is a short lyric poem that grasps a personal story of the relationship between a father and son. The son, who at the time could not perceive his father’s subtle expressions of love, never returned them. The first stanza starts off with a simple line that denotes the tone that the poem will pursue. The notion of “early morning” adds to the silent coldness of the title “Winter Sundays.” The author’s choice of incorporating “Sunday” into the poem initiates a more religious perspective as well. Sundays are religiously known to be a holy day of leisure, and his father got up on Sundays too shows the devotion he put forth into tending to his family.
Leigh matures as he comes to understand that his parents will never remarry. Resolution: Leigh's father comes to see them and he feels better knowing that his father still loves and misses them. Falling Action: The book ends in this awkward scene when Leigh’s father comes back and tries to reconcile the divorce, but his mother doesn’t want to. Critical Response: Dear Mr. Henshaw is a nice and creative story about a boy, Leigh Botts, who misses his father and struggled with his parents divorce. He has not many friends in school.
Would You Tell on Your Father? In “Barn Burning” by William Faulkner, the ultimate test of loyalty is displayed through a boy’s decision to either end his father’s harmful arson spree, or protect his father, who has taken care of him for as long as he has lived. Sarty’s father had burned barns down for things that he saw as wrong as retaliation and this started to become a nuisance to Sarty because of his internal conflict between doing the right thing in terms of the law, or staying loyal to his father who is breaking the law. When Sarty saw that his father was going to burn down Major DeSpain’s barn, he told De Spain that his father was going. By doing this Sarty broke his father’s trust: a trust that could possibly been weak to begin with according to instances in the story.
When Horatio first saw the ghost he remained even tempered and even ordered for it to say what they wanted to know. “If thou art privy to thy country’s fate ….O, speak! Or if thou hast uphoarded in they life extorted treasure in the womb of earth….Speak of it, stay and speak!” The only decision that Horatio did not agree with Hamlet on, was the decision that cost Hamlet his life. Although Hamlet died, he asked Horatio to complete an important act. .“If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart…Absent thee from felicity a while…and in this harsh world draw thy breath is pain…to tell my story.” Hamlet asks his friend to tell his story after he actually dies.