Gruener 1 Hailey Gruener October Sky Homer and his father never really saw eye to eye. Homer had a great determination to do big things and his father wanted him to be a man and just work in the mine like every other man. The character traits and strengths a person needs to accomplish their goals is perseverance. Another trait you would need to accomplish a goal is self-esteem. Courage is also an additional strength you need.
All a father wants is the best for their sons; however, some fathers tend to push their sons into something they might not be interested too. Because of these high expectations, it can cause risk between their relationship and loss of interest. A Father’s Expectations
Willy, himself, conformed rather than following his brother to Alaska, Africa or anywhere else. It is not fully evident whether Willy resents this missed opportunity or merely accepts it. He appears to be excited for his brother and his adventures unknowing of the way he will later crush Biff’s dreams to do the same: Ben. Why boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. [He laughs.]
The war had greatly impacted his father’s personality, attitude and parenting style. Therefore Spiegelman’s personality and lifestyle were then influenced by his father's personality and parenting style. His father loved showing off how handy he was since that was one of his survival methods during the war. This made Spiegelman fearful to fix things because he was being compared to his father. Spiegelman felt he was always over shadowed by his father regardless of his own accomplishment because his father survived the war and he could not compete with that.
A World of Guilt: Amir’s Struggle to Become a Better Man In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir struggles to become a man. His idealization of manhood is largely derived from the influence of his father his primary role model, Baba. Baba is a strong, assertive and confidant man in Amir’s eyes and despite their differences, Amir strives to embody this type of masculinity. However, Amir only becomes a better man when he is broken down and beaten into a humble man. Amir’s relationship to his mother, father and half brother, Hassan, are guilt ridden and strained.
Amir committed the deadly sin of being envious towards Hassan being in Amir’s life and his value towards Baba, which left him in guilt for witnessing Hassan’s struggle growing up. This all left him in unhappiness throughout his adulthood and married life as he was never able to forgive himself unless he had strived for Hassan’s forgiveness. This is what led into Sohrab’s value in Amir’s life. Therefore, throughout one’s life of sinful deeds, and wrong doings, one cannot forgive themselves unless they seek for others forgiveness and
Although he does feel bad that he just abandoned him so close to the end of his father’s life, it didn’t stop him from doing it. “I went to look for him. But at the same moment this thought came into my mind: ‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my own survival, and only worry about myself.’ Immediately I felt ashamed of myself, ashamed forever” (101). Here we saw Elie’s feelings towards his father really come through.
Theme Paragraph for “The Father” In the short story, “The Father”, by Hugh Garner, the father (John Purcell) moves from being selfish and ignorant to realizing he is the one who has created a void between his son (Johnny) and himself. The father, a former war veteran believed his responsibility ended with providing money, without spending time with the family. However, the son does not see it this way and feels his father should be involved more often. The son tries to get the attention
As Biff understands how destructive his father’s lifetime of denial has been for both of them. “I’m nothing! I’m nothing, Pop.... Will you let me go, for Christ’s sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?” This last conversation between Willy and Biff establishes that Biffs knows and has learned that he and his father are both failures. Biffs words in his conversation are quite true; they also foreshadow Willy’s death in the
When George makes this decision Lennie’s suffering comes to an end, where as it continued on for George, having to live with the guilt of killing his best friend and losing the closet thing that he had to family as well as all the hopes and dreams he had for the future. In the book there are other characters that are bearing their own problems. There is Curley’s wife who is not even given the dignity of having her own name used; instead she is just referred to as a ‘Hussy’, ‘Jezebel’, ‘Bitch’ and ‘Tart’ throughout the entire book and tragically it is her kind actions towards Lennie that lead to her undeserved death. Candy, like his dog, is old and perceived of as having little value. The cruel decision to kill his dog is symbolic of the future that awaits him before he is included in George and Lennie’s dream of buying the farm.