The boy has to go through so much during this journey that he shouldn’t feel scared anymore. He is still just a boy who is scared and doesn’t know what to do. The boy also sees the good in other people. When they encounter people the boy automatically wants to him them. The father feels that people shouldn’t be trusted.
It was always there. I can see it.” The boy’s definition of carrying the fire seems to be if you are “good or bad”, which is very important to him: “I dont know what to do. I think you should come with me. Are you one of the good guys?” Even though the boy is all alone and aware that he will probably die if his lonely situation remains, it is still important to him to make sure that he is on the good side. The boy's opposite of carrying the fire and being “one of the good people”, is eating people: “And you didnt eat them.
When Sonny’s father receives his son’s phone call, he lashes out at him immediately. There is barely any space for Sonny to explain himself to his father because his father is so upset with him. Both characters are too stubborn and alike to realize the thoughts going on in their own heads. They lack self-awareness, which is why the conversation between the two went the way that it did. In this scene we found that both characters lack self-awareness.
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.
Lord Chesterfield’s apprehensive warning shows the adoration he has for his young son, who has traveled far away from his home to receive a college education. By using anaphora and metaphor, he is informing his son that the world he is about to dive into will not always be temperate, but can easily get hot. Chesterfield, just like any other dad, truly has his son’s best interest at heart. The author’s diction demonstrates how he understands the trials and tribulations that his son will imminently be experiencing. He “know{s}” that “advice {is} generally” “unwelcome” and he “know{s}” that its not “followed”, however he “know{s}” that teenagers still “want it.” By using anaphora he is telling his son that he accepts the fact his advice will be rejected on the outside, but will be stored in a memory bank on the inside.
The “fire” is not only perseverance and love, but also each other. “Carrying the fire” is just another way to say that both need the other in order to survive - the father would not be able to live without the boy, and the boy would not choose to live without the father. Mentioned multiple times throughout the novel the phrase “carrying the fire”, is used to describe their strength and perseverance. The father and son never gave up. They kept moving and eventually made it to the coast.
The son always thinks that he is going to die, and the son is always afraid. His character starts off flat but then he progresses into a round character. He ends up “carrying the fire” which indicates that the son is willing to survive and “he talked to his father and he didn’t forget” (270) about his father’s belief. The son tells his father “you’re not the one who has to worry about everything” (259) shows us the transition of the son from boy to man. The father is a round character, he was complicated.
As a result, he stays away from Hassan and rejects to be with him. Hassan is always looking out for Amir and asks if there is something wrong with him. Because of his feelings of guilt, Amir can’t stand being with Hassan anymore and he needs to escape. To get rid of Hassan, Amir first asks his father for new servants. His father denies him and gets angry about it.
As the boy grows older with this point of view, he comes to know the world as predominantly evil. The isolation of the father and son from the rest of the world because of their being ‘good guys’ and the overt maliciousness of everyone else they come into contact with enforces this view point. The father’s alienation is different. He becomes consumed with the boy’s survival and well-being, not his own. This causes him to make decisions that the boy views as wrong in order to survive.
As soon as he felt like he was finally settling down, he left the family he was staying with. He was constantly being picked on for always being the skinny, nerdy, new kid. Second, Dave had to face the challenge of being judged because of what he was, a foster kid. Some people thought that he was in that situation because he had committed bad things but they didn’t know his story, he doesn’t like to share it, he