Relationships between a father and a son can vary depending upon how the father acts in significance to the child. The child’s future behavior is determined by the father’s actions raising him from a young child. The father should act as a positive role model for his children in order for them to grow up with a bright future, although it could also have a negative effect towards them. The connection between the two will have a serious impact on each other’s lives in a way that would either turn into a good or bad relationship throughout their lives. The novel, Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, expresses the influential connection between father and son relationships that may alter the bonds within the characters as the story goes on. Not everyone has a perfect relationship with their parents due to conflicting misunderstandings from one another and can be in relation to the novel by the actions and behaviors the characters project.
A boy looks up to his father as his first role model when he begins to grow up and wanting to be just like his dad (Aubrey). Some would continue …show more content…
The child will not always meet the dad’s expectations in life, however he can only learn from what he’s been taught and the morals he has discovered on his own. The father’s actions and behaviors will impact his own son’s beliefs which he can either take into consideration or ignore entirely. When the son has now become a father figure to his own son, the child can sometimes resemble the grandfather in which the dad was trying to avoid by teaching his son to be anything like his own father. In every relationship there will always be misunderstandings between the two individuals. Communication is essential to understanding each other’s thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Without it issues will arise in the relationship which can create an imbalance connection from which the parent and child has originally built
A boy looks up to his father as his first role model when he begins to grow up and wanting to be just like his dad (Aubrey). Some would continue …show more content…
The child will not always meet the dad’s expectations in life, however he can only learn from what he’s been taught and the morals he has discovered on his own. The father’s actions and behaviors will impact his own son’s beliefs which he can either take into consideration or ignore entirely. When the son has now become a father figure to his own son, the child can sometimes resemble the grandfather in which the dad was trying to avoid by teaching his son to be anything like his own father. In every relationship there will always be misunderstandings between the two individuals. Communication is essential to understanding each other’s thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Without it issues will arise in the relationship which can create an imbalance connection from which the parent and child has originally built