Not knowing that their friendship was forbidden, he gives Shmuel a piece of bread while Shmuel is cleaning the glasses. When Lieutenant Koler finds out that Shmuel had eaten a piece of bread, he beats him. Because Bruno hadn’t known that the two boys were not supposed to be friends, he had gotten Shmuel beaten. Had his parents told him the truth from the beginning that he wasn’t supposed to be anywhere near Jewish people, he would not have had to see his friend hurt. The main message Ogden sends in “Hangman” is that silence is dangerous.
He and Linda discuss their sons, whom Willy is quite disappointed in, especially Biff. In an effort to quell their father, Biff and Happy, their sons, decide to try and start a business together. Both propositions fail; Biff’s attempt at a loan is met with failure and Willy’s discussion with his boss goes awry. The three have dinner at a local restaurant, where Biff plans to tell his dad of his blunder. When Willy arrives, he refuses to listen to Biff, which angers him.
We know the bitter fighting is a way of life for adults but to view how this impacts the children from both sides adds a whole new psychological spin. For example, we come across wide-eyed brothers Yarko and Faraj, who casually mention how they try to decide which bus to ride to school for fear that if they get on the wrong one, their lives may be ended. If anything can be said about the staunch grittiness of Promises, it's the unflinching impartiality of the politics involved. The filmmakers (of Jewish ethnicity) aren't so much interested in siding with any particular Israeli or Palestinian agenda - just the agenda of finding out how much this daily drama affects the lives of young bystanders. Promises, sad to say, is one of those in-your-face, reality-driven stories containing no instant solutions or happy endings.
It is clear that Holden misinterprets Mr Antolini’s action because of a number of factors, including his fascination with sex, his mistrusting, judgemental nature, the lack of affection in his life, his struggle with adolescence and his cynical outlook on adult life. Mr Antolini is portrayed as fatherly. He is an old family friend and seems to have been part of Holden’s childhood. We are informed that he came to the Caulfield house quite frequently for dinner and that only a few days before, he had lunch with Holden’s father. During this meeting, they discussed Holden’s academic failure and his unwillingness to conform to society and apply himself to his studies.
Thinking that if he goes to a Methodist meeting his sins will be washed away and he would be revived, Little Jess attendees the meeting only to just look in then leave. Upon arriving home, he sees his father pacing with no shoes on. Little Jess’s guilty feeling can no longer be contained; he confesses his ‘sins’ to his father. Jess, the dad, tells Little Jess he knew what he was doing and made sure the knife, which was given to Roy, was sharpen. After their heart-to-heart, Jess and Little Jess go and rinse their feet, metaphorically washing the secrets and sins away.
Biff returns from the west to visit his family although he doesn’t know how long he’s going to stay. Happy is glad to see him, but Willy seems strangely irritated. He talks to old friends he imagines to the chagrin of his family, but no one has the heart to confront him about it. Willy has a flashback of a time when Biff and Happy were promising high school students. In the flashback, Willy gives his sons a punching bag.
At the beginning of this novel Adam comes off as an ignorant, foolish boy. Moses Cooper who is Adam’s father and himself seem to disagree on many things and not get along so well, partly because of this foolishness. Fast writes on page four, “I should have known enough to keep my mouth shut, because he replied that he was gratified to be enlightened and laid onto me ten times more, and then wanted to know whether I deemed seventeen to be a superstitious number?” This quote came right after the situation of Adam Cooper being caught by his father reciting a spell while fetching water. From this quote it is obvious that there is a lack of respect between Adam and his father. He continues to lash out on his disagreements with his father until he truly understands his father’s true feelings for him.
SOTO REWRITE Gary Soto is apprehensive as he reflects on the sins of the guilty six-year-old he once was. Soto ironically portrays himself as being “holy in almost every bone” then contradicts his statement by informing “boredom made me sin”. Soto wants to be holy, he wants to be good as he’s been taught he knows right from wrong but sometimes he strayed from the good path of the lord. Soto describes a distant but well known memory of a past imperfection conceived in a German market as a young boy. Soto forgets “the flowery dust priests give off, the shadow of angels and the proximity of god” and commits the outrageous sin of stealing
He tries to steal cigarettes from his dad’s small tobacco shop, but down there he witnesses something that he not quite had expected. Charlie’s relationship with his father does not exist, as it is mentioned in the text he sees his father as a wraith, pale man who only notices him spasmodic. He does not care for his father, so he will not mind stealing cigarettes from him. The lack of father-son relationship could be the answer to why he may be insecure. All young children need a father figure, especially boys.
Christopher's problems required special attention of his father who has to cook his meals which involved his eating habits, clean his clothes, look after him on weekends and when he gets sick or into trouble. Christopher's problems are mostly the reason why his parents got divorced as they both had different opinions about how to deal with him. One day Christopher sees his neighbors dog wellington dead on the garden and he hold him still until the police arrived that became a big problem for christopher because as the police man touched him he punched the policeman, and christopher was blamed and considered guilty because of his