This is one of the many paintings showing Christina Olson, also being one of his later paintings during his life. The painting depicts her sitting on a chair, resting with a kitten on her chest while she sleeps. The darkness is self-evident, providing a setting to compliment the sadness that seems to be shown. With this painting, Wyeth is able to show a deeper meaning behind it, the state of Christina Olson herself, and the emotions the artist felt during the time. The dark setting and the little contrast of the painting leads me to think that Wyeth thought of Christina as a sad older woman slowly dying from polio.
Lucie ignites these characters and ensures them a more promising destiny by binding them into her family. For example, Lucie’s thread unites her father with the present keeping him from dwelling upon the horrors of his past. She reminds her father of the life he had before he was a prisoner and gives his life a purpose. Her endless love and devotion has healed her father from a state of madness allowing him to live his life to his fullest potential. Lucie has also provided her friend, Sydney Carton a more promising fate by binding him into her family.
Two men who were nude had piano wire through their wrists and more wire through their privates; they were hung by their privates. I don’t know if those two survived or not. Inside the barracks, everyone was lying across the bunks, in three tiers, with their heads toward us. They were chained by the ankles. They were left to starve to death.
He is neither good nor bad. As Wilson says in an interview “we’re all like our parents.” (Wilson 824) Troy’s character was forged by his own father who worked all day in the cotton fields to provide for his family and believed that children had a certain role to play to forge their own independence through hard and menial work. “All he wanted was for you to learn how to walk so he could start you to working.” (Wilson Act 1 Scene 4 794) Troy did not see that he was just like his father when he was pushing to work menial job. Perhaps both Troy and his father were trying to teach their sons independence. 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.
To find an excellent example of a man who has, what seems to be, a lifetime of wisdom is Okonkwo from Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”. Unlike the elders among his tribe, Okonkwo is wise in his family, in his work, and in his life. This seems to be ironic in a sense, but usually the hardest of workers and strongest of body, are usually the strongest of heart and mind. Firstly, Okonkwo is wise in the way he treats his family. The man knows how to handle his many wives and children, as should be done in the Ibo tribe.
Yet it is the one essential, vital quality of those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." Any type of courage is rare to find in Alan Paton’s book ,Cry the Beloved Country, due to the fact that it is the 1940’s during an apartheid. The main protagonist, Reverend Stephen Kumalo, showed several times throughout the story what it truly means to have moral courage. Stephen Kumalo is a very humble Father and husband who has an astonishing amount of love for his country and family and has spent his whole life in the village of Ndotsheni. Kumalo has a very strong moral sense and an even stronger faith in God.
At that point I thought my life was over. I loss not only a grandmother but my hero, best friend, and a very special woman in my life. Deep down inside I knew she was at a better place and that she did not leave in pain or suffer. I knew she was in great hands because GOD called her home. My son was only two at the time so he did not understand that grandma went to heaven and what it meant.
Michael Tighe Marianne Bird My Legacy I have thought about what stuck out at me from Randy’s Last Lecture. What I always get is the same thing, and that is not to get upset if things aren’t going your way. Make do with that you have and show others that you can still be as successful without some of your dreams becoming true. Randy Pausch’s left a legacy to his two sons and daughter for them to follow as they grow up. He left them being known as one of the nicest everyday-person to meet and how he always looked up, as he didn’t want to dwell on something that was out of his control.
Movie Analysis: Frank Goode, a man in his old age, reflected back on his way of living – his life, his family specifically his children. He felt proud of what his children had become of their lives. Through his guidance and teachings, his children were able to become capable of being independent or so he thought. However, he somehow felt a bit down by the rejections when his children cancelled visiting him altogether so he planned on visiting them one-by-one. On the course of the film, there were moments wherein he felt unimportant in the lives of his children and that he was no longer needed as other people in their old age feel.
There was always misunderstanding and argument throughout his teenage life. It was a struggle for his mother to always have to defend him to his father. His oldest brother tried filling in as a father figure to him. He learned to appreciate his brother more than his father. 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.