Due to Nat’s condition, she doesn’t fit into a “normal” school, so her parents are sending her to boarding school. Forcing her family to move and her father to pick up two jobs on Alcatraz as a guard and electrician, he is rarely ever home to help the family out. Moose and Natalie’s father is willing to go to the extent of working two jobs and never being home to help out Natalie, because of her disability. Not only does Natalie’s condition affect her father but her brother. He is a twelve-year-old who wants to spend time with his friends and play baseball.
Neighbors looked out for Sonny and his sister, and a pilot named Erland would take them places once a week. Sonny went to multiple schools, being expelled and suspended several times. He didn't take well to authority, mainly because of the fact that his dad always treated him as more of a friend than a son(pg. 86). Barger's father eventually got remarried and had another daughter.
His criminal family frustrates Sarty in that he just wants to live a normal life. In a rose for Emily” Emily is heavily affected by her relatives. Going insane runs in her family with her great aunt (her dads sister) also being a little crazy. So she is at a disadvantage from the start. Her father doesn’t help the situation because he shields her from the outside world and “chases away potential suitors because none of them are good enough for his daughter” (p.6”A Rose for Emily”).
The family system is shown through this movie by the dysfunctions of each member. In the beginning, the system is messed up. Richard and Sheryl constantly bicker and argue, leading to Dwayne’s silence in which they don’t confined in and let him be mute. Richard’s constant thrive for winning and being perfect is delivered to Olive’s head. Olive cries to her grandfather because she fears losing in the Little Miss Sunshine pageant; she said, “Dad hates losers.” Edwin, the grandpa, always nags about stuff such as the ride or having chicken for dinner, again.
Throughout About a Boy Nick Hornby uses Kurt Cobain to symbolize effects of family life and friendship, depression and suicide, and the importance of pop culture. Marcus was only eleven years old when his parents, Fiona and Clive, got divorced. Ever since they got divorced he primarily lives with his mother and visits his father on weekends. Marcus has a hard time adjusting when he and his mother move to Cambridge. At first he doesn’t fit in at all and he is constantly being bullied; and on top of that his mother is always depressed.
Darl is also brings humiliation for Anse because other townsfolk are always talking about Darl and how strange he is. His parents aren’t the only ones who have a troubled relationship with Darl. Jewel absolutely hates his brother Darl. Darl frequently torments his younger brother giving reason for Jewel to shun Darl. Dewey Dell hates Darl because she can’t keep any secrets from him, because he can look at her and know what she’s hiding.
The blindest of all was obviously King Lear and because of Lear’s high position in society, you would think he would be able to determine the good from the bad but unfortunately, his lack of sight prevented him to do so. Lear’s first act of blindness came at the beginning of the play. First, he was easily fooled by his two oldest daughter’s lies. Then he was unable to see the reality of Cordelia’s true love for him and as a result, banished her from his kingdom. Lear’s blindness also caused him to banish one of his loyal followers, Kent.
His mothers parental monitoring was too much, she never let Ed do anything and always kept him hidden. The influence of his brother putting down there mother, who Ed worshipped was another factor in his downfall. Skinner’s Theory of Behavior: Gein never received any positive reinforcement Antisocial personality disorder (APD): This is a disorder Ed had because he failed to conform to the norms of society. Holmes and De Burger (1998): Have a theory that serial killers fall into 4 groups; Eddie falls into the hedonistic type because he strived for pleasure in playing with the bodies of his victims. Coercion Developmental Theory: Gerald Patterson (1982, 1986) states that parenting monitoring can cause early onset delinquency.
He is afraid to show affection, as seen with Ezinma and Ikemefuna. In fact, he is so “possessed by the fear of his father’s contemptible life” (Achebe 18), that he does not heed Ezeudu’s advice regarding the death of Ikemefuna. Okonkwo is afraid of looking weak, so he kills Ikemefuna himself. His deep seated fear of resembling his father is stronger than even love for his adopted son. Okonkwo’s “whole life was dominated by […] fear of failure and of weakness” (Achebe 13), and while this initially aids him in his success, it is also the precise reason for all his immoral actions.
After returning home the adjustment didn’t seem easy at all for anyone in Harold’s household. As the lies grew and the stories grew old, Harold became a different type of person: “Krebs acquired the nausea in regard to experience that is the result of untruth or exaggeration.” Harold’s Mother tried to put up with his stories and from time to time tried to listen to his dishonesties of war, but quickly became bored. Soon after she demanded him to find a job and a girl and to try to live a life of a normal Oklahoma young man, Krebs quickly pushed her off and agreed with her comments. “Before Krebs went away to the war he had never been allowed to drive the family motor car.” So when his mother tried to bribe him with using the car and giving