Willy thinks that if he were to tell the truth to his kids, they wouldn’t respect him for not being as successful as he claims to be. Outside influences have driven Willy to believe that he is not built for the salesman job. Furthermore, many people chase after jobs that they do not enjoy in order to keep up with what society believes to be acceptable in regards to standard living. Biff, Willy’s son, knows that he is not built for the business world. He would like to settle for less and do something he enjoys.
Lastly, the fathers expectations of two characters does not align with the mothers, yet in one piece of literature the mother expected exactly what the father wished. The feeling of not conforming to societal and parental expectations and not being appreciated condemns youth into believing they are worthless and negatively affects their outlook on life. “Brother Dear” and “A Cap for Steve” both deal with the raw issue of parents not accepting children’s ambitions in life. The two main characters have different goals yet both goals resembled the life that they wish to live at that time. Greg, from the short story “Brother Dear,” does not desire to attend university and become a man of business yet that is all his father wants for him.
Randy is a male filling the roles of both father and husband. As a father, Randy wants to be there for his children. As he indicated, he does not want to be a weekend father; he wants to be a full time dad. As a husband, Randy wants to provide for his family in the most efficient way possible. To him, wasting money on two residences for their family of four does not make much sense, especially when he wants his family there with him.
Slimsilver03 Tally’s Corner short report 11-16-2009 The primary determining factor in father child relationships according to Liebow is the amount of acceptance from the child to the father. It says that in his words “The man who lives with his wife and children are under legal and social constrains to provide for them, to be a husband to his wife and a father to his children. The chances are, however, that he is failing to provide for them, and failure in this primary function contaminates his performance as father in other respects as well. The more demonstrative and accepting he is of his children.” It is interesting that the fathers push step children away some what in the book. The men on Tally’s corner do not feel a connection with step children for the fact that they aren’t sharing each others blood.
Even though his own brother committed the sin, he knew it was wrong no matter who it was: "Maybe a jury will cut him loose. I wont. By god I wont” (143). Knowing most of Wes’s family is against the fact that Frank should not be punished; Wes puts his emotional feelings aside and grows up. Just by one fault by the closest man in his life, Wes realizes he has changed in better ways as things have gotten more complicated: “ My father stood for moral absolution ” (144).
there is no solid proof that the media causes violence, and although parents do a lot to help and protect their children, there are still some steps that can be taken to protect their children against violent and sexual material. Government intervention not stands for it. Violence starts at home, not on TV or in a computer game. America needs to stand together and fight youth violence and promiscuous sex without taking away the rights of citizens. We all want to help America's youth, but Government intervention (stronger enforcement of existing laws or new legislation) into availability of popular culture media would not help to reduce violence and promiscuous sex among America's
You would think because he missed his son’s birth, he would try to make up for it and be a great father. But he was never around to raise his son and do fatherly things with William, like teach him valuable life lessons and such. As an adult, William tried to let his father know that their relationship wasn’t steady because William only knew so much about his father, and the rest were fabrications. All he wanted to know was the truth, and Edward kept telling tall tales. This only caused the deteriorating relationship between father and son to
Rob has no interest in those kind of sports or any sports at all, he is just doing them just to please his dad. As for Rob's dad Mr. Willison, he shouldn't have forced his son to do all these sports that he is not interested in and pressuring him. Mr. Willison's obsession of Rob doing all these things is making Rob tempting himself to lie about things, and its normal for a teenager to lie about things just to please their parents. The dominant reading is that Mr. Willison
Raising a child can be special, but a male and female together is not what makes raising that child special. The love and attention that a parent gives a child is what makes that relationship unique, whether the child gets affection from two males or two females. I believe a child has the right to be loved and cared for, but the love doesn’t have to be from the birth parents. Stanton says that the way a child can turn out right is if a married natural mother and father raise it. I totally disagree, but the birth parents can also raise bad children.
I feel that if Amir had known that Hassan was his brother, he would have never made the decision to put the money under Hassan bed which constituted to Ali’s and Hassan’s departure. Baba had never told Hassan that he was his son mainly because of his social class and the type of reputation he acquired. Baba hadn’t been able to take care of Hassan like he should have been. However, the discrepancy between Baba and the mother in the story is that Baba had repentance for what he was doing. With that I feel that the reader was able to feel some kind of pity for Baba.