This means he is described as fragile and precious because of his injuries, with his punctured lung described as delicate as “parachute silk”. These images show Laura’s tenderness for her husband and how she wants to protect him. Similarly, Scannel also chooses imagery of war for what is really only a minor childhood incident. He refers to the spears of the nettles, calling them a “regiment” and, when he has cut them down and they have grown back again, he refers to them as “tall recruits”. This war and battle imagery used in the poem helps the reader to understand deeper, about the metaphorical meaning of this poem; that it is not just about comforting his son from the pain of the nettles, but also about the future pain of which he knows he will experience in his life.
This simile is effective in helping us understand the sheer extremity of the soldiers’ exhaustion. The idea that war prematurely aged these boys is emphasized with a second simile “knock-kneed, coughing like hags”. Again we see these men in a state that they shouldn’t be in as Owen suggests they’re old, sick and on their last dregs of energy. Their limbs as well as their internal organs, unable to cope. Like beggars
Although The Things They Carried had some references to actual family, the text showed that the most important family to the soldiers whilst they were at war were their ‘brothers’ out in the field. In contrast, Night was highly reliant on the family aspect of survival and how if families did not help each other, ultimately they both would die. Family was significant in both texts because it influenced the decisions of the characters. Father and son relationships between characters in Night and The Things They Carried played an important role, because it had an impact on how the characters thought and behaved. In Night the relationship that Elie and His father Chlomo shared helped the two of them to survive for so long in the death camps.
During Nettles the writer tells us that ‘the boy came seeking comfort’, this shows that the child feels as if he needs to go to his father to feel better and the father feels that it his responsibility to make sure that the boy feels safe and protected, however in The Habit if Light there is no signs that the mother is looking after the children or the children are going to her to seek comfort and better health, this could tell us that she is an independent women that doesn’t need other people around bothering her. Mid-way through the Nettles poem there is a change in the way the story is told, the father starts to get an anger for the ‘green spears’ that caused his son pain, ‘And then I took my billhook, honed the blade And went outside and slashed in fury with it’, this symbolises that the father is trying to defend his child and stop him from being hurt again however in The Habit if Light the poem only seems to get better as the things said about the mother are all positive, it is like all the writer wants to do is show how good the mother is and that she wouldn’t hurt anyone. Overall both poems show
Examples of these connections that impact on our sense of belonging are show through the texts, “Romulus My Father” and “The Lame Shall Enter First”. Notions regarding relationships with people, family and culture can have a huge impact on ones sense of belonging. The always changing nature of Raimonds relationship with his mother Christine, confronts us and alerts us as to how the nature of family and family values affects ones self identitiy. Although Christine suffers with her own mental well-being, somewhere between all the pain and suffering, Raimond and herself share a strong sense of understanding with each other, “I was glad of her presence, which comforted me more that food.” Further more, contrasted with Raimond’s proud and admirable representation of his father, Gaita challeges notions of belonging, as it ironically can both inhibit and shape individual values and morals, “My fathers devoted care for me contrasted obviously with her(christine) neglet of me.” Gaita is able to paint an intimate portrait of his father through his characterisation of him. It is through this portrayal that the composer may come to understand his complex father, and strengthen his emotional bonds with him, after his death.
"Knock-kneed" is a condition that makes knees hit together when walking. Owen employed this in his poem to show the reader how tired the soldiers were. They could not stand up and walk straight because they had already "cursed through sludge" for many miles. He also utilized the phrase "blood shod", which is when a horseshoe gets put on too hard and the horse's hoofs start to bleed. This exhibited the physical pain that the soldiers were going through.
My View Of Sociology and Suicide Our fourteen year old son has struggled with severe depression and made an attempt to take his own life. We have him hospitalized in a long-term mental hospital. It has been the hardest time for our family as we try hard to understand why that he is suicidal The theorist that best supports my view of Sociology is Emile Durkheim, because his theory has opened my eyes to why suicide occurs, therefore, it has helped me to understand my son’s reasoning for his suicidal ideation. My deployment to Iraq had a toxic like effect on our son. He watched as I left and almost immediately, like the flip of a switch, was overcome with fear.
Discuss the theme of family, as presented by Heaney in ‘Digging’ and ‘Follower’. The poems Digging and Follower by Seamus Heaney both are powerful expressions of the poet's admiration and respect for his father. Heaney strongly stresses his relationship with his father by creating a forceful comparison between himself and his dad and by doing so raises another important issue that is present throughout both poems, the significance of change. However, despite the depiction of the father in both poems seems quite similar at first glance, it later is evident that there are nevertheless certain differences between the two images created. Follower and Digging both give a clear account of Heaney's feelings towards his father with particular emphasis on the poet's response to the physical labour of his father.
Country Lovers: Let us begin with the short story by Nadine Gordimer, entitled Country Lovers. Njabulo, the husband of Thebedi, the protagonist, is the obvious provider in this relationship—the one who wears the pants. Although his wife ends up pregnant with another man’s child, Njabulo steps up and does what is right, taking care of his wife and the child, as if he were his own. Njabulo really works hard to provide for the child. He hides the situation and covers for his wife when he shouldn’t be required to.
Alternatively he tries to portray to readers the feeling of lost emotions, which the soldiers sense at the war front with other soldiers (or ‘brothers’). This suggests the soldiers were now isolated from the people on the home front and more connected with the soldiers on the war front, as if they were brothers. In Apologia pro Poemate Meo, Owen continually makes the reader feel associated to his message of comradeship. This is clearly interpreted through his language, where he repeatedly mentions the use of ‘I’ at the beginning of four of his stanzas. The repetition of ‘I’ may demonstrate that camaraderie was not forever and that soldiers eventually became individuals.