In both stories kids were influenced by adults. Fist Stick Knife Gun was pointed more towards violence. Geoffrey saw fighting all his life and thought that it was normal because his family told him so. “The Wave” by Morton Rhue was more about the power of other people’s say in things. Mr. Ross’ class made The Wave more powerful because everyone joined it and people thought it was the “right” thing to do.
Sander’s passes these life lessons and inheritance down to his children. Both physical and abstract is accomplished through the uses of characterizing, symbolism, and imagery in Sanders’ essay. Sanders uses characterization to represent the influence of a parent on his child’s personality. In the essay he describes his father as a patient, helpful, and very hard working man who “Did not talk much in the midst of his tools, but he kept up a nearly ceaseless humming, slipping in and out of a dozen tunes in an afternoon, often running back over the same stretch of melody again and again, as if searching for a way out,” States Sander’s. (113) Because of the work he was involved in throughout his life, Sanders’ father was a lot like a teacher.
Emotional memory – I have been called to the principal’s office and have my dad yelled at me because of my actions, except he was not as easy going as my character. I also channeled in the times when I was captain of my wrestling team and yelled at my team mates during practice. Sub- text- it was a fun character to play, even though I am young it was nice to play an older character who take responsibility not for only his actions but for his sons
When he talked to the past friend of Sonny’s, that’s where he starts to see what’s been going on with his brother, because of the things this guy is told him. But he really starts to get an understanding of everything going on with his brother Sonny when they actually sit down and talk after Sonny gets back home from serving his punishment. Sonny opened up to his brother. He let him know why he was involved with the drugs, and how it makes him feel when he plays his music. When he finally went out with Sonny to the place in the village, his eyes were really opened.
As Mr. Holland discovers, “Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”, and as the years unfold the joy of sharing his contagious passion for music with his students becomes his new definition of success. During his 31 years as a high school music teacher, Mr. Holland encounters many obstacles, one of which was the birth of his deaf son, Cole Holland. Mr. Holland, whose world revolves around his love of music, feels he can't connect with his son if his son can't hear music. He uses his music to hide from facing the reality of the situation with his son and other issues in his life. The experiences he has because of his music, guide him to a place of understanding towards the end of his career about his life and his son--this is his opus or greatest work.
“Words give us symbolic vehicles to communicate our creations and discoveries to others”. When Sonny told his father that he adopted a kid, the specific words he used had a strong influence on the dad’s reaction. Beebe, Beebe, and Ivy also noted that “when you label something good or bad you use language to create your own vision of how you experience the world”. In this particular scene, Sonny was stuttering a lot and his words symbolized his confusion of the current situation. Beebe, Beebe, & Ivy (2012) noted that “words and actions are tools we use to let someone know whether we support them or not”(p.76) Jack Gibbs has researched supportive and defensive communication for a couple years now and he defines defensive communication as “a language that creates a climate of hostility and mistrust”(p. 76-77) In the scene the father uses crude language and even goes to the extent of saying that “the kid would be better off living in a dumpster than with Sonny” (Adam Sandler).
Students who were on The Wave started to talk and do stuff with Robert just because he and they were in The Wave. Robert loved the attention he was getting so much it drove him a bit crazy, he overacted about the wave, he loved it so much he started to care about school and having friends, his grades went up and so did his friends, he was socialising more. Robert wanted The Wave to succeed he was pressuring students to join the Wave and those who were not in The Wave he would torment them. For example one day the school was having a sports match against another school and Robert made sure that only Wave members were aloud in the stands, he had students at the gates to make sure only Wave members could get in, he even offered to be the bodyguard of Mr Ross(the teacher/leader of the
The story shows the progression of Bean and how he perseveres to actualize his goals such as finding out his past and learning as much information that he can on his peers and mentor. The book is written in third person view but not many of the character’s thoughts are always heard. Next the book tackles the issue of child and the many talents the bear such as intelligence, perseverance, and leadership. Bean learns to achieve all of this throughout the story. It is presented by showing how Bean acquires his skills no matter what the cost.
The movie showed that the boy was able to assess the difficulty in performing these tasks on the basis of the instructions and expended a lot of energy in completing them. The old man through feedback evaluated and measured his performance and the boy gained proficiency through practice. Thus, we understand from the movie that performance is a process of accomplishing tasks by defining the tasks clearly, assessing the challenges and perfecting through practice and periodic measurement and evaluation. Q2. Why and how was this boy able to learn to this level?
Some of the don’ts were his family, cancer, and religion whereas he would agree to talk about his childhood dreams, enabling the dreams of others and how you can put it into action as said in his video lecture on YouTube then there is Siddhartha who is a fictional character who grows up as the son of a Brahmin that is seen to be destined for great. “…he saw him growing up to be a great sage and priest, a prince among the Brahmins.”(Siddhartha, 3) Are the thoughts of his father. Translator Hermann Hesse produced Siddhartha as a guy to be loved and praised by everyone. The only problem was that Siddhartha did not enjoy it or feel delighted by all the attention. Now that both stories have been introduced, obviously there is some kind of intangible place both