John was unhappy as child, his life started that way, however there was a little piece of him that felt he would be happy when got older. John had his first taste of alcohol at the age of ten. He did not recall how it felt, but did recall his father, who was in A.A. at the time, yelling: “You can’t drink! I’m an alcoholic. My father was an alcoholic!” John’s says that he sort of listened but eventually forgot as time passed.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson Text|Response| Because so much of the ritual had been forgotten or discarded, Mr. Summers had been successful in having slips of paper substituted for the chips of wood that had been used for generations. The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born. Mr. Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box. ...; they tended to gather together quietly for a while before they broke into boisterous play.|Both of these text from the short story, give me an idea of how long this Lottery event has been taking place in this town. They both show me that this has been a tradition with rituals by the old Black Box as well as describing Old Man Warner as “the oldest man in town”.
At 28 this man could not write , when working at the mills you might make money , but your education suffered from the tiny amount of money you would make. In An excerpt from the testimony of Joseph Hebergam (Document #2) Joseph is describing how he is ill from the dust in the factories , overwork and insufficient diet. Joseph also states that he will die within the year because his lungs are damaged and his lung muscles are so damaged that they will not support the weight of his bones. Joseph also tells the story of how a little boy died in the factory and how the shafts in the factory were never covered, this document shows how the working environments in the factories could kill/seriously hurt people and how even if you survived working in it , the long term affects will catch up with your health. In Document #8 , There is a chart that shows the iron production from 1740 until 1900 , with the British iron production in 1740 being 17,350 tons and in 1900 being 9,000,000 tons.
The family having lived in America during the American Great Depression, it is clear that the family was ravaging in poverty and poor education. In fact, Nicole had to be assisted on how to write the letter to his father by the wife because he had no knowledge of how to write one (Mazer, 1993). In abundance desire to share his memories, Nicole found it valuable to invite some of his friends who could dine and share memories together with is his family (Mazer, 1993). Nicole valued his friends as his family, which helps the story buttress the importance of family (Mazer, 1993). According to the story, it is unfortunate that the dog found the goatskin and ate it up making it hard to build the ciramella (Mazer, 1993).
Frethorne’s time as a servant was so brutal that he believed he would have been better off living life as a crippled beggar in his hometown of England rather than being a servant in the New World (Lauter 289). From Frethorne’s letters you can deeply feel the true pain and suffering he went through on a daily basis and you learn how much he begged and wished for his family to help him be back with them again in England. Simply, Frethorne’s experience as an indentured servant in the New World was unpleasant. His life during this time was rough due to elements, including: scarcity of food, weakness of the body, and loss of hope for a better life. During this time in the New World the demand for food was incredibly high, and only the wealthy were the ones lucky enough to get a real meal each day (Kupperman).
“Reunion” by John Cheever is a short story about Charlie who hasn’t seen his father since his parents’ divorce. So on his way back to his mother’s house he schedules a lunch with his father. Yet Charlie’s view on his father changes when his father continually has problems controlling his bad attitude. In “Powder and “Reunion” the authors use father/son relationships, point of view and conflict to portray to the reader that almost all father and son relationships have their flaws. In the two short stories it seems as if the sons’ relationships with their father were quite different, but they also had their similarities because both of them cared for their son.
Having an unstable family Mark has had some issues in life he started smoking when he was very young, along with his defiant attitude. He is somewhat close to his brother, and mother. But he has no communication with his father. 2. Jerome Clifford, a drunken suicidal lawyer, drags Mark into his car.
As any other teenager, she did not want to be close to her family. Her relationship with her father was the weakest though. In the text it states “Their father was away at home at work most of the time and when he came home he wanted supper and he read the newspaper at supper and after supper he went to bed” (899). In the story, it was never mentioned that Connie had a problem with her father. This is can be understandable because she liked how their relationship was.
There are two very bad decisions that Holden has in this book. One of which is his smoking habits, “I must have smoked about three cartons that day” (p.161). This quote took place when Holden had just come home but his parents did not know he was there. When he was reading Phoebe’s notebook he was starting to miss being home, that is when he started to feel sad and so he smoked, a lot. Only a teenager can really relate to this because Holden was not straight with his parents, every teenager has lied to their parents at some point.
Today, we hear stories about the holocaust and we learn about it in global history, but we have didn’t live through it so we cannot relate to how the people felt as they were living through it. Reading the section of the book Night makes me wonder why the Jews didn’t rebel against the Hungarian and German officers but then I realize that rebelling would just get them killed. This portion of the book makes me think of my great grandfather because my grandpa would tell me stories about my great grandfather’s life in Ireland and how he had lived in terrible living conditions because he didn’t have a lot of money. Just hearing about my great grandfathers living conditions when he lived in Ireland makes me realize how terrible the Jews living in the holocaust had been because just hearing about my great grandfathers life makes me realize how much worse living in the holocaust would be because they were living in unsanitary places, did not have much food and were treated horribly and this affected all of the Jews in