At first he was eager and scared to find his dad. On page 7 it states “I've never met him,but I have a pretty good feeling that this must be my father”. The detail supports that he want to find his dad because he is eager to to have a family to care about him. The author said on page 21 it saids “ The only thing I could hear was my own breath”. This shows that he was scared because he was out of breath.
Could you imagine running a dog team through a 1,150 mile race in the brisk cold of Alaska. In the book Winterdance Gary Paulsen moves to Minnesota and begins to train dogs to run a trapline. Eventually he acquires more and more dogs and trains them to run the iditarod. By the end of the book he had run the iditarod twice. Gary Paulsen uses motifs, symbolism, and themes to further enhance the reader 's enjoyment of the book.
When the Father reunites with his family after the war, the children believe that “the man who stood there before [them] was not [their] father. He was somebody else, a stranger who had been sent back in [their] father’s place.” (132). The children’s memories of the father portray him as a strong, handsome man who loved to laugh. After he returns home they see that he has aged, and become quiet and closed off.
After facing the tremendous loss of his parents, he soon had to face another. “‘What’s the score today?’... ‘It was your uncle’” Thomas wept. ( Pg. 84 ).
His biggest fear was to lose his father because of the bond that they had built. He gave up many things for his father like food and some opportunities. On page 107 it states, “In my father’s place lay another invalid.” This is when his father died. After his father died, it was almost a relief, but he was sad because he didn’t say his final goodbyes.
As Eliezer and his father lay on the ground, the sorrowful moment was filled with the sadness of a young boy and his father dying together. Eliezer's dad was the only one who had been with him since the beginning, and now he was gone. The silence of the moment was filled with grief and despair as Eliezer struggled to come to terms with his father's death. He felt helpless and alone, knowing that his father was never coming
It wasn’t even about him betraying them, it was more of him protecting his family from his dad’s sins. He didn’t look back in the end because he felt like he had made the right decision. Just think if Sarty didn’t stand up for what was right his father would continue be deviant. It was also a lesson for Sarty on how he could be better for himself in the
An example from the text that shows this is “He had called out to me and I had not answered. I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep. But I was out of tears.” From this we are able to infer that when his father died, he had a very emotionless reaction, and didn't do much. Later said in the next chapter “Since my father's death, nothing mattered to me anymore.”
“He was right, I thought deep down, not daring to admit it to myself. Too late to save your old father…You could have two rations of bread, two rations of soup… It was only a fraction of a second, but it left me feeling guilty.” At the end, he is able to regather himself and care for his father until his final days; Although, still under the burden of tremendous stress and guilt for wishing death upon his
Quote from the book as he reflects, “He was not happy”. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. He wore his happiness like a mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it
The character feels an almost bittersweet sensation here due to his father not being there for him in times when he needs him. It is a tragedy that even though he is relieved that his health is in satisfactory condition, his father is not because of his own choices of an unsatisfactory
Once we reach the end of the story, Sarty has finally realized that his father is a “ruthless” and “bloodless” man. (Byrne) Abner is on his way to burn down de Spain’s barn and Sarty knows he has to warn him. His family decides to hold on to him to not let him go but Sarty breaks free and runs down the road to tell de Spain what his father intends on doing. This is the moment when Sarty changed dramatically in the story.
In enduring these complex emotions, this section was the most remarkable part. One of the first apparent emotions the boy experiences with the death of his father is loneliness to make this section memorable. The boy expresses this sentiment when he stays with his father described as, “When he came back he knelt beside his father and held his cold hand and said his name over and over again,” (McCarthy 281). The definition of loneliness is, “sadness because one has no friends or company.”
Sarty finally comes to understand that blood isn't generally thicker than water. Sarty just had to overlook the love and the relationship he had with his father Abner to see the wrong he was doing and the controversy he was causing in the
to still keep established pace and tone, which is that calm, disassociated mood. At this point the father, the reader might think, is a construction of the husband’s mind, because the husband had focused on “the idea of never seeing him again. . . .” which struck him the most out of this chance meeting, rather than on the present moment of seeing him (Forn 345). However surreal this may be in real life, the narrator manages to keep the same weight through the pacing in the story to give this story a certain realism through the husband’s
