Under the Influence Scott Sanders In the piece Under the Influence, Scott Sanders seems to have a few different main points. A lot of things that supported Sanders’ points were experiences that I’ve had. I don’t feel as though something is being argued in this piece, rather a showing of his childhood with the events and how they affected him to this day. In the beginning of the story, it seemed repetitive, Sanders was merely showing scenes of his father in a drunken stupor.
In Scott Russell Sanders “Under the Influence” is the story about the painful memories of the author’s childhood memories. The author’s experience of his father’s alcoholism is addressed right from the start. Throughout the entirety of the story, Sanders talks about the effect that his father’s drinking problem has on his family and how it is even effecting Sander’s children. Multiple times throughout the story, Sander’s explains how his father’s drinking problem created a lot of fear in Sanders family. Sander’s tells the reader that his father’s drunken behaviors did not only effect his father, but the entire family.
“Under the Influence” is Scott Russell Sanders’ recollection of his childhood burdens created by his alcoholic father. Through this essay, Sanders reveals the impact of alcoholism on himself, his father, their family as well as his own children. The following commentary will examine the various languages used in Sanders’ essay and the most significant as well as difficult aspect of this essay. In the first half of his essay, Sanders describes his sufferings and emotional struggles as a child with an alcoholic father he never understood.
In “Under the Influence”, Scott Russell Sanders uses a variety of sentence lengths. A few of his sentences are very long, while most are medium or short in length. I would describe these sentences as somewhat poetic. They are very descriptive and help paint of picture of what life was like for Sanders and his father.
In the article “Under the Influence”, Scott Russell Sanders analyses the difficulty his family faced trying to cope up with his father, someone who valued his bottle too much. Sanders talks about his father’s addiction, which pertains to alcoholism, and how the same addiction affected him to an extent of influencing him too. He discusses the influence of his father’s addiction to his life, where he has developed an addiction of his own kind, one relating to work. Sanders opens up about his father’s character and compare it to the one he develops while intoxicated. In this vein, he introduces his father to the audience as “playful, competent and kind when sober” (Sanders 242).
There is a significant relationship between alcohol addiction and the story, Allegory of the Cave by Plato because they share many characteristics. The story refers to a state where people are chained to walls of a cave for the most of their lives. While these individuals wish so much to be cut off the bondage, they are unable to get out of it and instead find a way in which they may be comfortable in the situation that they are in. These people also see shadows of things that are projected on the wall. They are unable to see the actual things the way they appear, and they contend with the fact that that is the closest they will be able to see the actual representation of the things the way they appear outside.
In our childhood, the most important people to us are our parents. We rely on parents to feed us, clothe us, provides for us, shelter us, and most importantly love us. Unfortunately, some parents fail to complete these important duties for their children. These disasters either happen by choice or by circumstance. The absence of family hurts everyone during childhood.
He wanted discipline and guidance from his parents but never got it and that they both raised themselves. The parents and the son were both to be blamed. The article is about a man talking what happen during his childhood. He had alcoholic parents which made him and his older sister
“In the middle of a crazy drunk life, you have to hang on to the good and sober moments tightly.” (from The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, page 216) How do you handle death and sadness? How do you stay positive through the storm of life? In Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, the Native American narrator, Junior is stranded on his reservation where poverty ,alcoholism, and violence are rampant.
Jane Jackson is a thirty year old caucasian female who has lived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin her whole life. Growing up most of her family had different variations of drug and alcohol abuse, including her father. Lucky for Jane, this alcoholism did not make her father abusive towards her or anyone in her family. He was very high functioning and was still around, if a little intoxicated, for all of the important moments in her life. The drinking never truly bothered her until people had told her that it was supposed to when she got into high school.
Sander successfully demonstrates to his audience the horror that can be caused if a family has an alcoholic father. On the other hand, Sander’s daughter was always working and never took time off. Sander does not say if her daughter loved her work so much that she could not leave it, but he uses the contradiction between her and his father to show the two worlds that he lived in. at one point, Sander shows how alcoholism made his father to become dishonest. In the essay, Sander says “When my father is drunk he is very dishonest, deceitful, and pathetic” (p.
His mother warned him about his fate if he continued to drink, like his own late father, but he felt that a few drinks would not cause any issues. Little did he know that a few drinks would turn into endless nights of drinking, and the biggest tragedy of his life; the death of his daughter. His daughter, worried sick about him, went to look for him at the tavern so they
Gustavo has an alcohol addiction problem. This has not only affected his relationship with his family members, but has also affected the functions of the family. The father now works had to pay his debts while he continues drinking. The family’s normal functioning is disrupted by full attention on him and worries about him (Reinaldo & Pillon,
Scott Russell Sanders’ “Under the Influence” focuses on his life as the child of an alcoholic and how most people wouldn’t know his family was going through some of things they that they were because they carried themselves so well. The main focus he brings up in this article is that people don’t really know what goes on in an alcoholic home. Mr. Sanders also brings up how this influence has not only effected Sanders and his family, but also how it is affecting his own children. Sanders describes in one part as “playful, competent, and kind when sober” into a character he likens to a man who became “a stranger than, as fearful as any graveyard lunatic” when intoxicated (Sanders6).
Carly Heymann 11Q Life Orientation: Alcohol Assignment Task 1: Advert: 1. In both adverts alcohol is indirectly portrayed by showing us, the viewers the effects it can have on our bodies after a night of binge drinking and therefore convincing the viewers to abstain from returning home in the condition that is portrayed in the advert.
