He was well known and involved with his community. Moving to Canada meant starting over and learning new things. Balbir along with the rest of his family did not understand English so well or spoke it so well. From a system prospective Balbir has his siblings and his son's school social worker. Balbir and his brother are very close and Balbir's family lived with his brother for two months when first coming to Canada.
Raymond looks at the possibility of how it could snow even though his brother is giving him all these facts of how it is too cold and too dry to snow. For this reason Raymond is more optimistic than Harold since he chose hope while his brother chose facts instead. In addition, Raymond is also more considerate. On pg. 70 Raymond offers to the Guthrie brothers, which are a couple of young boys who are part of the novel, some money for helping him and his brother on the farm.
Even though the book never specifically specifies that Elroy Berdahl knows why Tim O'Brien has come to his lodge, it is evident to the reader that Elroy is a sharp and intelligent man and realizes that O'Brien is a young man trying to make a decision that will affect him the rest of his life. Elroy realized that O'Brien was contemplating deserting his country and running to Canada and that whatever direction he chose to head in it must be his decision. This quality of Elroy's, his ability to give O'Brien the right to make his decision for himself, makes him a good person. Ultimately being a good person is decided by one's actions. One action that Elroy Berdahl takes in the story "On the Rainy River" is when he takes Tim O'Brien out on his boat to cross the river into Canada.
Newman was a man who refused to accept failure, and demanded the appearance of great confidence in his family. Thus, it was this chance meeting with his uncle that inspired Miller to create Loman and the Loman household characters as they are. Wealth, hard work, job security and family union are some of the concepts that involves the well-known term, the American Dream. Few people think this dream is something that is automatically granted. Many others however, as in the story Death of a Salesman, view it as something that has to be achieved in order to be successful.
There is also “The Sarge”, Mike Marsh, who helps Dave out get his life together as well as Dan did. This autobiography shows a missing part of Dave’s life. He speaks about what he went through in his youth and what he had to do to build up his self esteem and overcome all that he was put through by his mother and others who saw him as nothing. As hard as it was for him, he shows that with the help of people he met that grew care for him, he was able to see what he was capable of by taking time out of their lives for him. First, one of the challenges Dave Pelzer faced in his youth was finally being taken out of his mother’s house and put into foster care.
In order for integration to occur, an individual must discover factors, such as people, that tie them deeper into the community; once this has occurred, an individual’s identity will change to reflect their community as more than just neighbors, but as family. Moving from a comfortable life is never anyone’s idea choice, but circumstances with Will’s career made Medicine River an optimal place to go for the time being. He returned to Medicine River, with no sense of belonging. Being half Blackfoot, half Caucasian and spending childhood in Calgary, this small aboriginal community was almost as foreign to him as he was a foreigner to the community. Harlen Bigbear was a friend Will met following his mother’s funeral; this friendship was critical in many deep levels for the integration of Will in to the community.
Losing something that he is so connected to because of what it represents to him bothers him so much he stares out the window hoping the individual who took it would walk by with it on. These are not reactions most people would have when losing a shirt. Only because Romero grew up not having much and he bought this shirt with his own money before he had began his life with his wife did this shirt mean this much to him “Romero constantly had to discipline himself by remembering the past, how his parents lived; he had to teach himself to appreciate what he did have” pg
His father’s commitments to the community, did not give him much time for his family. That did not stop Elie from looking up to his father who is a respected member of the Jewish community in Sighet. His father thought that Elie was too young to study mysticism, that did not stop him from studying. The relationship between Elie and his father, Chlomo, changed from a normal father and son relationship at the beginning of the book to a very close relationship at the death camp, they were inseparable. They would support each other as to go on living and working, but this relationship transforms as the two go through more and more situations.
In the novel, Candy used to work on the ranch, however, because of an accident, he lost one of his hands. He dose not have any ability to do heavy works, so he has to work as a swamper on the ranch. Coincidentally, after meeting George and Lennie, he is drawn into George and Lennie's dream, and wants to have a similar dream as George's. In the novel, once George tells their future plan to Lennie, Candy thinks it is wonderful to have a own house and do not have to do what they would rather not do, so he tells George that he can contribute to buying a house with his money in order to make George agree to take him together. As shown above, different people might have different backgrounds, different beliefs or different habits.
He also depicts the state the farmers and their families are in. The men of the household seem to be standing strong and still thinking of a way out of this mess while the wives and children look to their husbands and dads for reassurance. The Dust Bowl occurred during Steinbeck’s lifetime so he must’ve taken inspiration from families that