This line shows his child mentality,
In the poem, “Becoming and Going: An Oldsmobile Story” by Gerald Hill the speaker is traveling down a road in the Fort Qu’appelle Valley. He notices his father and his son are also driving down this road. The speaker then begins to list the two men’s characteristics. As he lists them we see that the father and the son have both similarities and differences in their personalities.
Family dynamics can be a complicated thing, as we are shown in Drew Hayden Taylor ’s play Someday. The play demonstrates the complexity of family, both by blood and those close enough to be considered family. In some families, you do not necessarily have to be directly related by blood to be considered part of the family. Rodney, Barb Wabung’s boyfriend, is an example of that.
Have you ever counted on an individual to be closer to you compared to someone biological? Biological means for individuals being related by DNA. However, just because you have the same blood running through your veins, it does not mean you guys have the same mindset or need to stick together. In the novel ‘The Marrow Thieves', written by Cherie Dimaline, is about how a boy named Frenchie who lost his biological family, and struggled to survive, found himself a different family that was all connected since they all lost their loved ones. Families stick together to ensure survival.
“Family- like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one.” This famous quote describes a theme in Chaim Potok’s book, The Chosen. Although the friendship between Reuven and Danny showed apparently, the family relationships also had a very strong say in the book. Loyalty displayed by both boys towards their fathers is evinced throughout the book. Although each family had their ups and downs, in the end, family became the most important thing.
I, his only son! this shows how the person who is stating this is obviously saying it with emotion and saying it straightforward to someone, the reader can probably conclude that this can also be a thought in the character's mind. And this is all in 1st person perspective because whenever it’s someone stating something it’s always on them it’s like they have the spotlight at the moment they are talking.
She also reflects on her upbringing and her childhood to highlight/renforcer the contrast between her family’s beliefs and hers/how she is. In a personal
After those lines, the author adds that “A stranger am I to my child; and he one to me” (Document 2). Because of the author’s
He begins the article stating that his mother ‘is not surprised that her children are well-off.” This may possibly be hinting at the fact that he and his siblings are doing well prosperity-wise likely due to hard work. He immediately sets the tone for the passage with this statement that draws back to the passage’s theme of the American dream of material success. He then describes an experience in which his mother “stands waving toward no one in particular.” It can be inferred that the particular event being described is the departure of his siblings - possibly back to work.
From beginning to end, the son calls his father “Baba” to show his affection and admiration. Despite the father’s inability to come up with a new story, the son still looks up to him. This affectionate term also contrasts with the father’s vision of the “boy packing his shirts [and] looking for his keys,” which accentuates the undying love between the father and son (15 & 16) . The father’s emotional “screams” also emphasize his fear of disappointing the son he loves so much (17). Despite the father’s agonizing visions, the son remains patient and continues to ask for a story, and their relationship remains “emotional” and “earthly”--nothing has changed (20-21).
Family is Family John Steinbeck states, “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen” (Steinbeck). This statement works because it is showing his determination and that he can do small things and make them great. Steinbeck’s writings are often depressing and may not come with a good outcome. The Depression era of literature was often blunt and direct in its social criticism, this lasted roughly between 1929 to 1939.
Whether or not the boy’s parents judged them or not does not impede the family’s ability to make that
Even of his father. Here there are no fathers, no brothers, no friends. Everyone lives and dies for himself alone. I’ll give you a soul piece of advice-don’t give your ration of bread and soup to your old father, There’s nothing you can do for him. And you’re killing yourself.
Throughout the story, her father is never mentioned, and although she claims she has a ‘brother’ (191), he never makes any appearance in the story. The main familial relationship then, is between the narrator and her mother, who the narrator states (albeit not openly) that she is ‘embarrassed by’ (Munro, 188). When the narrator was younger, she used to wear ‘these cloths’ (188) made by her mother, of the strangest fashion, and she had taken ‘pleasure’ (188) in doing so. It presents the argument that the narrator and her mother used to be more intimate than they are now, when the narrator has ‘grown wiser’ (188), an euphemism for the fact that she has come to understand all of society’s normative ideals, and want to stay within these boundaries. With the narrator and her mother though, it is not that they cannot communicate for serious social backlash will occur, but that the narrator wishes not to communicate directly with her mother, expressing her opinions.
Families are said to constitute realities in which most of one’s attributes are constructed, based on the family interactions, beliefs, values as well as the behaviours that are seen in the specific families one is brought up into (Archer & McCarthy, 2007). However, even though most of one’s personal characteristics may be heavily influenced by their families; people do have a sense of individuality that makes them unique from any other person in the family (Becvar & Becvar, 2013). Therefore, one may argue that it is these differences that may cause misunderstandings in families.
