After Telemakos went on the journey to find his father and helped him fight the suitors, he showed his courageous character. Throughout The Odyssey, Telemakos is a developing character; he begins as a shy and timid young boy, but grows into a very courageous man like his father Odysseus. Odysseus leaves for Troy when Telemakos is an infant. Therefore, Telemakos never had a true father figure to look up to throughout his childhood. However, he did take care of his father’s estate and his mother while Odysseus was gone, but because his mother raised him he wasn’t very outgoing.
In addition, readers also feel pity and affection towards Jack as he deals with neglect and domestic violence from cruel and corrupt Dwight. Wolff explores the idea that it is both external and internal factors that shape us as an individual. Jack’s childhood is riddled with violence, alcohol abuse, criminal activity and emotional neglect. He feels he must accept responsibility even for situations that he could not have controlled which elicits pity and affection from the audience. At heart, Jack is kind, caring and very compassionate to his mother.
His life until this point has been very much related to failures rather than success. When he was a child, he had many hopes and dreams but now as an adult he feels his dreams will never be reached and he does not see much success in his future. Also, in the text The bite of the Mango, Mariatu Kamara, an innocent eleven year old child living in a small village in Sierra Leone, faces many life threatening challenges throughout her journey of life, as she loses her hands, lives a very poor childhood and loses her parents as a child. After many years of suffering Mariatu is adopted by a family in Canada with which she begins a positive life style.
A Dream World and a Monster This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolff is a memoir which follows Tobias Wolff through ages ten to fifteen. Since he was separated from his father and his brother Tobias, later known as Jack, and his mother Rosemary are always on the move. The book follows Jack’s harsh childhood and his time on the road with his mother, searching for salvation and a practical lifestyle. As a mother Rosemary is unconventional wanting to travel and explore instead of committing to the role of a typical housewife. It is clear that she loves her son very much, but her well-meaning decisions can prove destructive.
In fact, he may even have had more freedom than what would be considered necessary for psychosocial moratorium, seeing as there is a serious lack of parenting in his life. With that said, the problems in Jack’s life are not due to a lack of psychosocial moratorium, but a lack of supervision and parenting. The book This Boy’s Life follows the lives of Jack (Tobias Wolff) and his mother Rosemary as they travel across the country in search of a new life in the mid 1950s. They eventually settle in the town of Chinook, WA after Jack’s mother remarries, but regrettably her new husband, Dwight, turns out to be an abusive alcoholic. Of the many problems in Jack’s life, this happens to be one he cannot control, but there is an array of others that are completely his own fault.
He then tries his very best to hold it all in like Atticus . Even after being scared by it. Atticus is also approached by many men threating to kill him. Even Bob Ewells spat in his face and all he said was “I just wished he didn’t chew tobacco” he said to Jem and Scout. All this so that Jem or Scout wouldn’t be affected by the Maycomb disease
“The Birthday Party”, “The Stone Boy” and “Lives of the Saints”, three of Gina Berriault’s selected stories have clearly shown the complexities of a child’s life. The absence of attention, love and empathy in these children’s lives can be seen throughout their thoughts, which shows their feeling of abandonment and isolation. In “Lives of the Saints”, the story begins with Milo introducing himself to his own father, whom had refused to accept the fact that Milo was his son. The words that Milo uses has a sense of uncertainty and plead, as he asks his father, “I wonder if you recognize me. I’m Milo your son” (p.67).
he never had a chance to meet one of his brothers seeing as the brother had died at a young age, although he never got to meet his brother it still could of left him intellectually puzzled about the past. Social: he lived in a house with a small room with pollution which could have left him self-conscious. Spiritual: his mother was Jehovah’s Witness which could mean that the background he is from was quite grounded, strict and looked out for high expectations. Positive Effects: Physical: the more he grew he became stronger and his lifestyle made him more active travelling from country to country and
Throughout the novel, Amir is almost always trying to redeem himself which makes up a major theme of the novel. Early on Amir feels the desire to redeem himself in his father’s eyes, but the failure to stand up for himself as a kid is what brings him to still feel the need for redemption as an adult. Amir feels that he has not lived up to the expectations that Baba would have for a child of his, considering Baba is such a strong and respectable person, opposed to Amir who can’t even stand up for himself. We see this feeling from Amir early in the book. Another reason Amir feels the need for redemption is that his mother died while giving birth to him, leaving Baba wifeless, and Amir can’t help but feel a little responsible for this happening.
Like a child, Holden fears change and is overwhelmed by complexity, but he is too out of touch with his feelings to admit it. Instead, he spends much of his time criticizing others. Ironically, he is often guilty of the sins he criticizes in others. Holden is clearly fearful of adulthood, but instead of acknowledging that it scares and mystifies him, he condemns it, claiming that adulthood is a world of superficiality, hypocrisy, and “phoniness.” Whereas, childhood, on the other hand, is a world of innocence, curiosity, and honesty. He explains that adults are inevitably phonies, and, what’s worse, they can’t see their own phoniness.