Baba feels ashamed of being Hassan’s father because he kept it a secret to everyone for all this time. He is ashamed of being Hassan’s dad because if people know that he made love with a hassara his reputation will be destroyed, and his reputation is
(pg.114)” | Christopher’s dad is sorry that he lied to him about his mother being dead and that he felt bad for not giving him the letters. | Christopher got really upset and couldn’t trust his father any more since he lied to him about his own mother being dead. The fact that he couldn’t trust his own father made him not want to talk or live with him. Christopher has based his life on trust and now that the closest person in his life told a huge lie. | “And when I was asleep I had one of my favorite dreams.
Chesterfield is making his words feel unnecessary and not worth the time to read. He feels that his rambling won't help his son achieve anything more then he already has, and that his advice can be compared to the garrulity of old age. However, his tone quickly shifts into a much harsher one, as he starts to go off and start tell his son that without his advice, he wouldn't be able to succeed. Chesterfield shifts his letter from a seemingly apologetic mood to a threatening, cold-but-true mood to make sure it catches your eye. Now, he's almost making threats to his son, claiming that if he doesn't listen to his advice, his son will be a failure.
In the story, “Like the Sun” Sekhar lies to his headmaster because he doesn’t want to get in trouble. “No. I want it
Tell me. How? There will be trouble from this. When a son goes so far away from a father, there can only be trouble.” His father just wanted to raise him with the sense of family and his religion. He wanted to protect him from the bad influences, but he was only scared of his son’s gift because he didn’t know what it meant for him.
The first important theme is denial where each character showcase their denial of certain aspects of their lives. Willy has denial against himself and what he is because he wants to be big and known which he isn't but he thinks he is and so he denies the fact that he is just an ordinary human being. Also, throughout the play the characters keep contradicting themselves and it is seen a number of times especially with Willy. For example, in the first scene he states that Biff is lazy but then he goes on a line or two later to state that he is a hard working lad and that he is not lazy. This behavior is why he can not accept reality in order to ignore the present and re live the past.
Both honest mistakes that he didn’t even know he made. The ignorance shown towards Lennie in the novel was due to the time period and the people’s lack of knowledge. People in the story like “The boss” just thought that Lennie wasn’t smart because he just didn’t talk much unless it was to his best friend George. There was ignorance in Raymond because his brother thought that he could remove Ray from his schedules at his home and take him with him. The Ignorance was that Ray needed those schedules or he will have a fit.
03/25/12 “An individual’s past mistake should not dictate their future.” This theme means that people shouldn't have their lives be burdened with their past sins/mistakes. This theme is most used throughout the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. After the main character Amir witnesses his best friend Hassan being sexually abused by a group of boys and then betrays their friendship by not defending him, he then seeks forgiveness for his past mistakes. Amir makes many attempts in seeking for forgiveness for his past mistakes throughout the novel, but is not always successful. Amir's first attempt to seek forgiveness is when he begins throwing pomegranates at Hassan and yells at him to hit him back, but Hassan doesn't.
Before his peers discover David’s true identity, David feels he is forced to hide and lie about himself especially due to the fact that his friends weren’t comfortable around different races or religions and would often make stereotypical jokes. A quote from the movie was “David Green’s the first one I’ve met up close”, this helps identify the struggle and adversities David would have suffered after the discovery of his religion. The film School Ties can really connect with the viewer, demonstrating the irrationality of prejudice in any form. The movie encourages prejudiced people to reconsider their opinions as it shows another point of view. The viewer can learn important teachings learnt from the bible such as
Because he doesn't want to face his failure, for years Willy has been lying to himself and to others, dreaming and misleading himself into a false idea of his own popularity. This erroneous view of himself as his boss calls it, gets