ipl-logo

The Influence Of The Father In Trap Lines

1185 Words5 Pages

The parents have a great power of influence to their children since they could be the role models who the children follow, their actions and attitudes could also affect the way how the children treat other people. In story Young Man’s Folly, the mother is a single parent who caring about her son all the time, and in the story Trap Lines, the father is an aboriginal who is always finding a way to show his love to his son. Both of the two parents in the stories can be regarded as patterns in many ways, since their children both understand and accept their love eventually. However, the difference methods of parenting children lead to a controversial topic that whether the mother in Young Man’s Folly or the father in Trap Lines is the better parent. …show more content…

Thereby, her son understood his mother’s love and was no longer blaming on her. Standing on the father’s point of view in Trap Lines, he had too much tolerance to his son. Christopher, the son in Trap Lines, a teenager who was always impatient to his father and interrupted the conversation with his father, under the influence of the adolescence. however, the father had never been blamed on him or criticized him, which caused Christopher's incapability to recognize his impolite behaviors and disrespectful attitude toward his …show more content…

The father had already noticed that he had trouble in chatting with his son, therefore, he talked with his son more frequently to deal with the problem as well as promote mutual feelings. However, as the father was scanty of words, their conversations always ended with failure. It brought negative impact to his son which was that he became more and more reluctant to tell his father things related to himself. The father's inappropriate method even worsened the relationship between himself and his son, which lessened the positive effect that the father could have on his son. This kind of way to treat the kids are unacceptable by any of the good parents.
The mother was able to find the direct solution that suit the specific situation the most, which she let her son to talk with his father himself since her son was not willing to hear what she said, leading him to deal with his issue by himself, while the father in Trap Lines, a parent who was fear of language, handled the problem by communicating. He was lack of the ability to choose the way that he was good at to solve problems. Therefore, the mother resolved the conflict more advisable than the father, which made her a greater parent than the

Show More
Related
293 Words | 2 Pages

“Trap Lines” Question 6 In the short story “Trap Lines” by Thomas King, the intergenerational affairs still endure today, even to non-natives. In the story, Christopher is a man who is 18 years old and had recently finished high school. Christopher’s father is 46 and he had grown up in a time which is now very offbeat. Christopher and his father cannot comply with each other’s thoughts and ideas.

Read More
1180 Words | 5 Pages

Parent’s Perspective All parents have different and similar ways of raising their children throughout their lives so they can prosper into intelligent and admirable young adults. The different and similar parenting techniques are portrayed in the novel, The Body Of Christopher Creed by Carol Plum- Ucci, when Torey Adam’s parents and Christopher Creed’s parents show their parenting techniques. Throughout the story, it is evident that Christopher Creed’s and Torey Adam’s parents have very different relationships with their children and different ways of parenting and teaching them.

Read More
526 Words | 3 Pages

Jim Valano once said, “[his] father gave [him] the greatest gift anyone could give another person. He believed in [him]”. The relationship between a child and their father is vital in the development of a child, and has a profound effect on their future interactions. The bond between father and son in a healthy relationship is nearly indomitable, and can be one of the sturdiest bonds that exist. Sadly, not many relationships like this exist, and there are many unfortunate cases of neglect and abuse.

Read More
526 Words | 3 Pages

The boy had been selfish and instead of helping his father he helped only

Read More
523 Words | 3 Pages

In some cases, the parents are only trying to help their child instead of make their child feel this way. In “ from Confetti Girl and “from Tortilla Sun”, the situations in both stories created tension between the narrator and their parents which proves that they way a child is affected by their parent not only destroys them but keeps them from facing their parents. Sometimes the child feels hopeless and neglected. When analyzing these stories, tension was created because of the different points of view between the narrator and their

Read More
1146 Words | 5 Pages

Gathering the courage to tell his father that he was going to go fishing with his friend was hard for the young man to do because he knows it would change their regular routine of fishing together and possibly hurt his father. While contemplating on how he should tell his father, the young man thought, “It was a very serious thing” (16). In contrast to all the long sentences, the fact that this sentence is short emphasizes the importance of how the young man’s new idea of going with his friend instead of his father changes his relationship with his father. However, the young man and father’s relationship won’t completely change because they will always have a strong foundation, which they created when the young man was still a kid and they spent a lot of time together. The young man and the father spent so much time together while the man was a kid to the point that “his father had always preferred his company to that of men and he had always preferred his father’s company to that of the other guys” (20-22).

Read More
260 Words | 2 Pages

10 years ago today, Jackson’s father, Tig, died in a motorcycle accident on I-465, or so he was told. All his life his mother Kara and step-father Clay told him he was riding drunk on his way home, but Jackson has his suspicions. You see his father never drank and his mother and father were constantly arguing around this time, so Jackson being a 26 year old man and father, know’s how hard it can be to support a family. Kara and CLay were going to go camping and asked Jackson if he wanted to bring the kids and his wife, Lyla, and Jackson accepted. Jackson and Lyla were packing for the trip when a call came in from the Marion County Sheriff’s Office, it was about his father, the case was re-opened.

Read More
534 Words | 3 Pages

“His father was always beating him up, and his mother ignored him, except when she was hacked off at something, and then you could hear her yelling at him clear down at our house. I think he hated that worse than getting whipped”(Hinton 12). Through family, many look to their parents for support, but some instances of a family are not the same as the tradition Mother, Father, and children;

Read More
668 Words | 3 Pages

Some parents smudge,others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair.” Throughout this novel, it can been seen how nurture plays a bigger role in the development of behavior and morals of the Bundren children rather than nature.

Read More
524 Words | 3 Pages

Bees Noga Bees are a very important part of our lives, as proven by theguardian.com and saveourbees.org.uk. Bees are important because they pollinate 84% of every single crop we eat. 84% means a third of every bite we eat. They pollinate crops such as broccoli, tomatoes, papaya, watermelon, strawberry, apples, mango, pears, and many more! Bees pollinate over 400 different types of crops.

Read More
871 Words | 4 Pages

Both sons understand their fathers efforts but they are shown in

Read More
798 Words | 4 Pages

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

Read More
515 Words | 3 Pages

Children talk about how their parents abandoned them and left them behind. For instance, Enrique states, “I wouldn’t be this way if I had two parents” (198).Enrique tells his mother that he acts this way because both of his parents were never in his life. Enrique acts out because his parents are not in his life . He says that if his parents were in his life, then he would of never choose to sniff glue or join a gang before he reconnected with his mother. Also, Enrique says to his mother that “You long ago lost the right to tell me what to do” (198).

Read More
1406 Words | 6 Pages

Best of the Worst Parenting is never perfect. Every parents questions whether they are raising their child correctly, and no parent ever feels like they are doing the right thing. With no clear distinction between good and bad parenting, it is usually left to personal preferences and judgements to decide which parents have adequately raised their children and which have failed. When a parent so call “fails,” often it is the children with their strong will and determination to survive that collectively raise themselves. In Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, Leonie, one of the narrators and the mother of another narrator, Jojo, is not the most caring, hands-on mother, but is loving of her children nevertheless.

Read More
1748 Words | 7 Pages

This boy, paralleling the boy in “From Childhood,” is being smothered so much so that it is impacting his life negatively. Though some might argue that his attention induced embarrassment is typical of a growing child, context clues point to his mother’s overbearing nature as the direct culprit of his discomfort. The relationship between the parties of both “From Childhood” and “Mother and Son” are uncanny. But even so, the way in which the mother in “Mother and Son” acts overbearingly differs to that of the overbearing actions of the mother in “From Childhood,” thus giving this maternal relation its own place on the wide-ranged

Read More

More about The Influence Of The Father In Trap Lines

Related Topics

Open Document