A father's influence on his son's personal development is often unseen but nonetheless real. How a young man treats and respects women, his mother is normally a direct connection with watching how his father interacted with his mother and other women. A young man will observe how his dad or positive male role model should deal with conflict and differences and how his dad interacts with other men. He will learn how men talk, how they relate with one another and how they deal with masculine issues. One of the most intriguing aspects of The Odyssey is the relationship between Odysseus and Telemakhos, his son.
One main idea that Haddon explores is that one perspective on life, such as a logical view, can cause conflicts between an individual, himself and the wider community, often involving intense emotion in making their life decisions. This idea is mainly portrayed through the protagonist Christopher who throughout the novel believes that all questions in life can be answered logically which causes him to have numerous conflicts with others and within himself. Initially, Christopher’s view on life is depicted in the simile “prime numbers are like life” because “they are very logical but you can never work out the rules.” This emphasizes Chris’ belief that he doesn’t understand life as it doesn’t have set rules. Furthermore, this is supported in another simile from Chris in “I sometimes think of my mind as a machine” which compares his views on life with how a machine would which would be; totally logical and lacking emotion. As well as this, his logical perspectives cause him to have disagreements with others which is depicted in his father’s colloquialism “keep your nose out of other people’s business,” which highlights Chris’ desire to understand and quantify everything, even if it isn’t related to him.
There was always misunderstanding and argument throughout his teenage life. It was a struggle for his mother to always have to defend him to his father. His oldest brother tried filling in as a father figure to him. He learned to appreciate his brother more than his father. Although life was rough for him he managed to learn positive qualities such being humble, wise, unpretentious, well-behaved, leads others, organized, respectful, self-giving, and most of all thoughtful.
With his strong attitude he has no patience for his wife that is why she ends up getting beat many times through the novel. Also when Okonkwo expresses that he is worried that Nwoye, his son, does not exert his energy or strength like a man. Showing that Okonkwo prefers a traditional life style
The Old Man and the Boy – Assignment B Disagreeing with friends or family can be frustrating, especially when dealing with a stubborn person. It can be very frustrating when you know you are right, but sometimes it can be hard to change people’s mind. Sometimes you just have to give up, which can be hard, especially in a scenario like this text. In the text, “The Old Man and the Boy”, written by Kurt Vonnegut, we follow an old man and a boy, who have very different views on the war. The boy's views are different from the old man’s views, so you would not believe the old man raised the boy.
Achebe described Okonkwo's father in this way: “Unoka (Okonkwo's father) …was lazy and improvident and was quite incapable of thinking about tomorrow.” (Achebe 4) In contrasting that to the culture I have been brought up in, it seems that the majority of men who had a father like Unoka responded in living their life in trying to make up for what their father lacked in his – which is the same idea that I felt that Okonkwo's goals and ideas were based on. I say this because of how often he had to fight the urge to show affection or love to his children and wives, and also to his believing that if he told Nwoye stories of battle and destruction that Nwoye would become more of a man. I feel grateful that I have been raised in a family that the idea of showing affection is encouraged, and that there is nothing wrong with the feminist traits of women, and that it is ok for me to have them. I have been raised to always express yourself through words and emotion, and in some cases physically. If one of my five sisters or one of my 4 brothers did something nice for me I wouldn't just turn my shoulder and pretend like nothing happened or just stare at her/him with indifference, but I would
Thesis: Lalit struggles to keep his family unit close in the midst of all the changes, stress and accepting his family growth, yet he still maintains a positive roll model through an effort to keep his cultural identity. Monsoon Wedding Lalit is the strongest motivator in the family in that he wants to be a good father and husband. In resulting to be a good roll model he struggles with balancing cultural expectations in his role as father, provider, mentor and husband. Not being able to help the new modern change and technology filled generation change, Lalit seems baffled at the younger generation and their way of life goals. He tries everything in his power to make things run smoothly and to make a good impression, yet Lalit’s expectations are high and he comes from a background of a hard worker.
He’s living at home in the beginning, but gets kicked out by his parents because of his drug addiction. Though he is only fifteen he knows a lot about drugs and dealing, and the writer makes him sound like he has been doing drugs for a long time. The environment he is born in, the environment we all are born in is not self-chosen. We don’t choose were we are born and which conditions we are born in to, but the question is, can we break out of the environment we are born in to a better environment? Or perhaps a worse environment than
Nnaemeka marries out of tradition, where the father chooses who he wants his son to marry. His son chose himself and that is a great disrespect to his people. It causes pain and disappointment to the father. The father is in pain because he couldn’t believe his son went out of tradition and decided to marry someone of his choice. “..Father’s silence was infinitely more menacing than a flood of threatening speech.
He seems obsessed with prestige—although he himself is not willing to work for it. His dialogue throughout the work seems to be one long lamentation for the prestige that he does not have. In this first chapter Tambu expresses the injustice that women face; it is evident that she will come to dislike the members of her family (male and female) because they reinforce and perpetuate this inequity. Chapter 2: Tambu’s uncle Babamukuru is described in more detail. Babamukuru is the patriarch of Tambu’s family; he uses his success to support his entire family.