Like a ship or build a family’s strength is dependent on its structure. In reading the short play A Taste of Honey, by Shelagh Delaney, the reader’s mind is saturated the many positive and negative examples of a family. Reading A Taste of Honey one can draw a logic idea of what makes a family successful. Each member of a family adds a pillar of stability and preforms their duty to keep their respective family intact. Similarly a family without the many components that make a family successful have a higher that likely change to come crashing down a fiery epic failure like a train being derailed. The failure and success rest upon each member, but traditionally the male father is the head of a household and therefor he is charge mainly with leadership
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Standing as a tall moral stature is only part of being a father. Children often need discipline actions against any bad habit they might have formed. In a report, made by Susan L. Brown, brown reports that “Adolescents residing in cohabiting or single-mother families reported lower levels of closeness, on average, than those in two-biological-parent families” (96). Having a father and mother present makes a gargantuan difference in the development of a child and in this particular report it has made clear. In further reading A Taste of Honey one can see how often Jo seems to lack discipline due to Helen’s lacking of a husband. Often Jo would come out with brief outbursts, obnoxious remarks, and would retort most of the things her mother would say. Even with the addition of Peter, Jo seems to have a negative outlook to her life and where they live. The most credible conjecture is that Jo’s behavior and attitude are reflective and dependent on the vacant emotional vacancies that her father left upon his abandoning of the family. Jo often has a tone like from the following: “Jo: She doesn 't much care for me either.” (Delaney 33) and this is why her intelligence is unrated. Jo and Helen both lack the emotional support of a man the house. Without this both Jo and Helen have had both their characters suffer from this void. Having a morally strong husband and father provides a family with a stable emotional support and a firm financial
Standing as a tall moral stature is only part of being a father. Children often need discipline actions against any bad habit they might have formed. In a report, made by Susan L. Brown, brown reports that “Adolescents residing in cohabiting or single-mother families reported lower levels of closeness, on average, than those in two-biological-parent families” (96). Having a father and mother present makes a gargantuan difference in the development of a child and in this particular report it has made clear. In further reading A Taste of Honey one can see how often Jo seems to lack discipline due to Helen’s lacking of a husband. Often Jo would come out with brief outbursts, obnoxious remarks, and would retort most of the things her mother would say. Even with the addition of Peter, Jo seems to have a negative outlook to her life and where they live. The most credible conjecture is that Jo’s behavior and attitude are reflective and dependent on the vacant emotional vacancies that her father left upon his abandoning of the family. Jo often has a tone like from the following: “Jo: She doesn 't much care for me either.” (Delaney 33) and this is why her intelligence is unrated. Jo and Helen both lack the emotional support of a man the house. Without this both Jo and Helen have had both their characters suffer from this void. Having a morally strong husband and father provides a family with a stable emotional support and a firm financial