“I have so much chaos in my life, and it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong,” Says Tom Welling an American actor, producer, director, and model. As most people clearly know, life is hard rough road that likes to turn everyday life on its head. Chaos might occur when parents’ divorce, when a death of a love one comes out of nowhere, or when something out of the ordinary happens in everyday life. To exemplify the idea of life being flawed are three short stories: Sherman Alexie’s “Because My Father Always Said he Was The Only Indian Who Saw Jimi Hendrix Play “The Star-Spangled Banner” At Woodstock,”
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To start off with, the theme is shown in the father and son’s relationship. Their relationship is not the ordinary father son relationship we see in our ordinary everyday life because the son would take care of the alcoholic father and make sure he was pleased. An example would be the son would wait up until he saw his dad’s headlights then he would put in his father’s favorite tape in the stereo then his father would pass out at the table while the son slept under the table by his father’s feet. Thinking of a single father, one would think the father would take care of the son and care for him in every way a child would require but that is the complete opposite of this father and son’s relationship. In the reading it says, “ The days after, my father would feel so guilty that he would tell me stories as a means of apology,”(Alexie 26) meaning the father knew he was acting like the child making his son take care of him while he was being a selfish father. Then the theme is displayed when the father’s hero is singer that abuses drugs and alcohol. The reading states, “Only the good dies young, my father said.” (Alexie 32) This quote shows the father’s life was not ordinary and had his priorities wrong. He thought of his hero as a perfect man yet he was the farthest thing from …show more content…
First of all, the theme is displayed when they were going on vacation when they turned off onto a road to go observe a house the grandmother wanted to see and get into a car accident. In this case they were not expecting for that to happen to them since vacations are supposed to be enjoyable not troubling. In the text it says, “The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so Bailey’s wrath would not come down on her all at once.” (O’Connor 7) This quote shows if the grandmother would have remained quiet they could have traveled on to their destination and proceeds on with their vacation instead of venturing off their path. Secondly the theme presented when the grandmother is trying reason with the Misfit as he is having his men kill off her family one by one, saving her for last. In the reading it says, “Maybe they put you in by mistake.” (O’Connor 11) In this quote it demonstrates how the grandmother was trying to tell the Misfit he really was not a killer her was a respectable man that did not do anything wrong, but was made out to look as an evil
To start off with, the theme is shown in the father and son’s relationship. Their relationship is not the ordinary father son relationship we see in our ordinary everyday life because the son would take care of the alcoholic father and make sure he was pleased. An example would be the son would wait up until he saw his dad’s headlights then he would put in his father’s favorite tape in the stereo then his father would pass out at the table while the son slept under the table by his father’s feet. Thinking of a single father, one would think the father would take care of the son and care for him in every way a child would require but that is the complete opposite of this father and son’s relationship. In the reading it says, “ The days after, my father would feel so guilty that he would tell me stories as a means of apology,”(Alexie 26) meaning the father knew he was acting like the child making his son take care of him while he was being a selfish father. Then the theme is displayed when the father’s hero is singer that abuses drugs and alcohol. The reading states, “Only the good dies young, my father said.” (Alexie 32) This quote shows the father’s life was not ordinary and had his priorities wrong. He thought of his hero as a perfect man yet he was the farthest thing from …show more content…
First of all, the theme is displayed when they were going on vacation when they turned off onto a road to go observe a house the grandmother wanted to see and get into a car accident. In this case they were not expecting for that to happen to them since vacations are supposed to be enjoyable not troubling. In the text it says, “The grandmother was curled up under the dashboard, hoping she was injured so Bailey’s wrath would not come down on her all at once.” (O’Connor 7) This quote shows if the grandmother would have remained quiet they could have traveled on to their destination and proceeds on with their vacation instead of venturing off their path. Secondly the theme presented when the grandmother is trying reason with the Misfit as he is having his men kill off her family one by one, saving her for last. In the reading it says, “Maybe they put you in by mistake.” (O’Connor 11) In this quote it demonstrates how the grandmother was trying to tell the Misfit he really was not a killer her was a respectable man that did not do anything wrong, but was made out to look as an evil