He needed to be treated as if he was a part of the community and maintains an ability to make a difference. However, the teachers all shoved him away refusing to hear his heart crying out for love and acceptance. He had no idea who he was as a person nor love to guide him through life. Paul’s father could have made the biggest impact on his suicide. More than anyone, a boy needs his father to approve of him and teach him how to be a man.
In the poem A Father to his Son by Carl Sandburg, a father advises his son, leading him through a set of guidelines and values to assist him untie the knot of inextricable uncertainties, problems, pain, and complexities of life. Based on his experience, he knows that there is no perfect formula for living. As a result, father suggests values that will help his son lead a purposeful, satisfying life. Markedly, out of his different suggestions, being true and honest stand out. Although limited in poetic devices, personification, rhetoric question, and an enthusiastic one are evident.
Since getting a job and supporting one’s family was an integral part of their being, both parents were attempting to teach their children the responsibility and ensure that they acquire skill that cannot be taken away from them by circumstances. * As Brent Staples writes “[Troy] is embittered by the forces – time, racism…” (Staples 823) and these forces dictated his attitude toward his life and family. Troy Maxson lived during the time when men were taught that their responsibility to their family only
Although life was rough for him he managed to learn positive qualities such being humble, wise, unpretentious, well-behaved, leads others, organized, respectful, self-giving, and most of all thoughtful. His experience allowed him to improve his way of living based on his father’s actions and behavior. He became a better person and continues to improve. He promised to himself that when he has his own family he will be a great husband and a father to his children. From the day we met to this day, we have been inseparable.
There is an obvious dedication between the two. The author uses careful selection of details to illustrate the apparent relationship between them. The details make it seem as if the father and son always got along and were always most important to each other, above all else. The father and son both preferred the company of each other over the company of outsiders. Despite this the son desires to break away and start a life as a normal, social teenager.
On occasion, we do see his good side, his conscious, his moral center surface and we realize that under that tough exterior is a little boy who wants to belong and be loved. In reading Tobias Wolff's essay “This Boys Life”, one can see how he uses white space, honesty, irony and vivid imagery to show his persona and aid in showing his credibility. These elements combine to create a story that is not only interesting to read, but also very believable. Wolff uses white space sparingly. He uses it to jump from a scene into a
Atticus never doubted his beliefs; he unlike majority of other white men in Maycomb knew what was right, Atticus became a lawyer because he is an honest man that believes in justice and he proves it to the reader every time that his words are listed. A strong example of Atticus being the leader he is to his family and the community is when he tells Scout the reason why he
Jim’s self-concept is, “I just want to go to school and do the best I can and be normal.” Such as hang out, party a little from time to time, basically living his own life not the life of his father’s. Well I totally can relate to Jims father because, we as parents work as extremely hard for our children because we only want what’s best for them, is it right No, most defiantly not it depressed Jim because he feels like he is doing the best he can do, and his father just don’t understand. That it isn’t as easy for him as it was when he was in school. Jim’s father self-concept of Jim is more positive because he sees in Jim what Jim isn’t able to see, he is motivating him to do better than what he is doing. Sections such as motives, Jim’s father motives were to get good grade and be accomplished.
Huck’s father teaches his only son that life is not worth living, while on the other hand Jim gives Huck the strong fatherly support that Huck needs including, friendship, and knowledge for Huck to become a real man unlike his father. Even though Huck and Jim are both from different racial backgrounds the time they spend together allows them to surpass their ethnic differences and become just like true family father. For the father son relationship that Huck Finn needs to work requires respect and love from the child for the father. Jim is in the deepest corners of Huck's heart and in the story we see how Huck's powerful his compassion is for Jim. Such an example is when the rattle snake bites Jim, and Huck ensures that he brings him back to life.” Jim told me to chop off the snake's head and throw it away, and then skin the body and roast a piece of it.
Deployed quite often, Mr. Doherty was rarely around the house. Therefore, Doherty had to become the man of the house. While juggling protecting the women of the Doherty household and the tedious assigned schoolwork and homework, Doherty has to set aside the mournful feelings he gets knowing that his dad may never come back from war. Doherty says, "It kills me knowing my dad might die out there, but I look up to him for what he does. " Mr. Doherty pushes for and hopes that his son will continue the long family line of being in the military.