Plath satirically compares her father to God because he was a heavy presence in her life, and how he weighed down on her, like marble. The poet, Sylvia Plath, uses diction throughout the poem “Daddy” to express her mordant and bitter view of her late father. The word ‘Daddy’ comes up a lot in this poem. Plath refers to her father as ‘daddy’ to support her sarcastic attitude towards her dad. Nowhere in this poem Plath shows any compassion towards her father, but yet she refers to her father as ‘daddy’ so that the reader could see the bitter venom behind her words.
It is a book of honesty, emotion of these teens are real. Letters are a reminder that the years before adulthood are confusing for teens. Being a teenager today is similar from being a teenager in the 1940s. In The Catcher in the Rye, Holden is telling his story in bed and he is putting in writing as he goes. In the article these teens are putting their feelings in writing, in letters addressed to their parents but these letters are shouts of loneliness and sadness, feeling isolated from their parents.
Erickson's Stages of Psychosocial Development In the movie Ordinary People, the character Conrad shows signs of having missed a stage in Erickson’s stages of psychosocial development. The relationship that Conrad and his mother have is very unusually and could explain a lot of why Conrad puts so much of the guilt of his brother’s death on himself. It’s possible that when Conrad was a little boy his mother spent more time with his older brother and didn’t really pay much attention to him or certain tasks that he accomplished. This stage would be Initiative vs. Guilt.
For example, on page 237 in the textbook, it says: “It had always been hard for them to talk for more than a minute or two before his father got offended at something Luis said, or at his sarcastic tone. He was always doing something wrong.” Eventually, though, he realizes that his father does care a lot about his dead wife, and that he never got over her death. What helps Luis realize this was his falling in love with Naomi. A sentence from the story supports Luis’ realization: “Luis worked and worked, beginning to understand a little why his father kept busy all the time.” The main theme for this story is simple: love can change people. In the second story, “The Bass, the River, and Sheila Mant,” the main character, the narrator, is in love with a girl, who isn’t at all like him.
These often fragmented memories emphasise both the complex relationship between history and memory, as well as bakers division within himself as both a historian and son. This division is further emphasised by the use of poetry, letters, quotes, interviews and songs to vindicate his words. Through the text the relationship between Baker and his parents becomes strained due to Baker’s probing of the past. This conflict is particularly frequent with his mother Genia. One of the major clashes with his mother while bringing out her story was when he claimed ‘I don’t believe you’ while asking her to prove her story of staying with a Christian family in Poland for two years.
Some of these language features are the use of short sentences, similes and pictures. The author uses short sentences when Christopher is scared and _____________. After finding out that his father _____________ about his mother’s death, Christopher is devastated. He doesn’t understand lies and truly believes that if his father lied about this, he could do anything to him. He is ________________ of his father and doesn’t know what to do.
It isn’t an easy ride to get a job or just live a normal life. But in the story “Papa Who Wakes up Tired” the little girl realized that her father isn’t as strong as she thought. She saw him crying and she was confused because she always thought that he was a big, tough guy who would protect her, but instead he was crying because of his fathers’ death. Their similar because in both works their both going through some type of pain or struggle in their lives. Well, in the story it was accidental that the little girl saw her father crying, but on the
“I feel that this award was not made to me as a man but to my work.” (Faulkner, pg 1) This excerpt from his speech shows the readers that Faulkner does use his emotions to write his books. One of Faulkner’s characters named Vardaman, an 8 year old boy, shows great love for his mother. The loss of his mother affected him very badly in which he began to “vomit the crying.” (AILD, pg 54) In meaning that the death of his mother made him cry so badly he was unable to stop crying. His compassion for his mother is very strong. With the love and compassion Vardaman has for his mother shows that he has tremendous respect for his mother.
He becomes really close with his younger sister Phoebe, and he feels he must protect her from growing up and making mistakes. When she makes mistakes she will be thrown off the right track and he doesn’t want that to happen for her. He learns through out his journey that he cannot and should not stop her from making mistakes because making mistakes and learning from your mistakes is how you become who you are. In the book Ordinary People, The Jarret family lost their beloved son and brother Jordan (Bucky). Conrad tried to commit suicide.
Harvard Mental Health Letter. Review Questions 1. How do people with dementia deal with the knowledge that eventually they will not be able to think coherently and recognise those they love? 2. Often I have heard stories of family members not wishing to visit mothers or fathers with dementia as it is too painful to see them in the way they are.