Difficulty With Loved Ones
“For it is true, we can seldom help those closet to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give out or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them – we can love completely without complete understanding.” –Reverend Maclean True relationships between siblings are hard to come across and hard to built. One day two siblings could be the best of friends, and a week later they could be mute towards each other. Of course, siblings will fight; it’s in human nature, but to anticipate the relationship of siblings of their forthcoming is difficult. After reading “Sonny’s Blues” written by James Baldwin and A River Runs Through It directed by Robert Redford I have studied how relationship between brothers work. The relationship between two brothers ruptures, when life intervenes, and when needing help, refusal is given to the ones who we love. …show more content…
In “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny is the younger brother who is repeatedly getting himself into to trouble by being in and out of jail, which goes for Paul as well, in A River Runs Through It. Paul and Sonny both are addicted to either drugs or drinking, and they need help but they refuse to receive the help needed. Both brothers Norman and the Narrator reach out to their younger brother, resulting in denial and their brother acting different around them to hide their problems and the tough situations they are
“For it is true, we can seldom help those closet to us. Either we don’t know what part of ourselves to give out or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them – we can love completely without complete understanding.” –Reverend Maclean True relationships between siblings are hard to come across and hard to built. One day two siblings could be the best of friends, and a week later they could be mute towards each other. Of course, siblings will fight; it’s in human nature, but to anticipate the relationship of siblings of their forthcoming is difficult. After reading “Sonny’s Blues” written by James Baldwin and A River Runs Through It directed by Robert Redford I have studied how relationship between brothers work. The relationship between two brothers ruptures, when life intervenes, and when needing help, refusal is given to the ones who we love. …show more content…
In “Sonny’s Blues”, Sonny is the younger brother who is repeatedly getting himself into to trouble by being in and out of jail, which goes for Paul as well, in A River Runs Through It. Paul and Sonny both are addicted to either drugs or drinking, and they need help but they refuse to receive the help needed. Both brothers Norman and the Narrator reach out to their younger brother, resulting in denial and their brother acting different around them to hide their problems and the tough situations they are