Instead they were replaced with hard work, struggle and pain and that he cannot re-create that part of his life. Social: Young children can get emotionally attached and dependent on those who care for them. Michael’s behaviour and actions came from him not having a childhood. Nature Vs Nurture The events in Michael’s childhood such as not having a “normal” childhood and always working hard and suffering could be contended that it could be both nature and nurture. Nature could be blamed for this as he had a natural singing voice and so he might’ve needed to rehearse and train to keep his voice at a certain level.
However, as I attend college and live by myself, I realized he was right to some extent, and his words came out because he also cared about my future as much as I do. In the movie Smoke Signals, Victor believes his father Arnold abandons him and does not love him. However, after meeting Suzy, finding the word of “home” behind the family photo, and the illusion of Victor’s father giving him a hand melt his heart, and Victor manages to accept and forgive his father. Through these events in the movie, I might look back myself and shadow myself onto Victor; this would be the reason why the process of Victor’s change caught
He then moved in with a bunched of bachelors and drank constantly. Alcohol relieved his constant nervous headaches. He was married for 4 years and had a baby boy but his wife could not watch him disintegrate anymore. So she took the baby and left. Over the next few years he drank more and worked less and was eventually homeless and jobless.
That night when Kiowa got wasted, I sort of sank down into the sewage with him… Feels like I’m still deep shit.”(Page 150) Bowker is also intelligent and is well supported by his parents, but he did not see any meaning in getting a job or even going to school. He does not have the words to explain what he went through or how he feels and he tries to hide it. Norman really wants his story told, so he sent a letter to Tim O’ Brien and ask Tim to write itfor him. He believes that Tim can express how he feels or get the right words out, but the story did not satisfy Norman and he commits suicide 8 months later in the locker room of a YMCA in his hometown. Norman’s role in this book is to help Tim to go from being a storyteller, or writer, to being a soldier.
I compared three unlike points of Coontz with my family in this essay. Coontz describes that on the 1950’s families use to have a stable life. But on the other hand my family never have a stable and settled life till the 1980’s. My grandfather was a track driver from state to state , So he use to move from state to state with his family. My Grandfather never believed in distance relationship neither with his wife nor his children so he moved his family from place to place along with his work .
He said though he had never experienced prejudice directly, it still affected him the same. He had to learn a lot and it was difficult for him to learn the language similar to his grandparents. Living in America he learned about racism and cultural differences. The values he learned as child, he could not understand why people in America did not follow especially with having nothing to lose. Here he felt like he had three identities, but like others and his grandparents in Thailand he felt that he should also ignore people who were prejudice because he had that choice.
It just delayed the timing of when he would publish his book. Authors usually say their biggest influences are other authors that they read or their lifestyle growing up but to jack Gantos his biggest influence was his family. His family influence him by moving him to Barbados were English was enforce on the students as something that was of incredible art. Gatos fell in love with reading and realize in 6th grade that he wanted to be a writer. After reading his sister’s dairy and realizing that he was better than her and thus that started his dream of wanting to be an author and later on committing his biggest mistake.
That is why he felt that his children should be proficient readers. Ever since his kids were born he felt the need to pass his intelligence onto Scout and Jem. He believed that if he taught his kids to be as intelligent as he was, they could grow up to be successful people. Once, when Scout had started the first grade, her teacher, Ms. Caroline, told Scout that she was not allowed to read. However, Atticus encouraged reading and prompted his daughter to read every night with him.
For example Abdul’s parents took him out of school in order to replace his father as a garbage sorter when his father became ill with tuberculosis. “You didn’t have a mind for school, anyway, his father recently observed. Abdul wasn't sure he’d had enough schooling to make a judgement either way. In the early years, he'd sat in a classroom where nothing much
He leans this fact when he tries to go to Purdue University He can’t read the professor’s lips he has an Interpreter but he only understands maybe half of what is signed. At RIT Matt meets Jay who is a fun loving guy he wants to make Matt loosen up a bit have fun get into the Deaf culture. Matt keeps saying “he is only here for one thing” But eventually Jay rubs off on Matt and Matt rubs off on Jay. Jay learns to study a little more. Matt’s relationship with his Grandfather is close but sometimes Matt feels that his grandfather doesn’t understand him fully.