Human history has come a long way through challenges and struggles. Due to challenges encountered on a daily basis, humanity now can realize the premise of determination and use it to its full potential. The three works Shinny Game Melted the Ice by Richard Wagamese, The First Day by Edward P. Jones, and Just Lather That's all by Hernando Téllez, clearly exemplify the theme of determination through its impact on decision making, its effect upon others, and how it forms relationships between the protagonists and the antagonists.
Life is primarily built around decisions. Determination falls under this same principle. Many scenarios of which determination helps an individual to make a healthy decision is predominant within Shinny Game Melted the …show more content…
In Shinny Game Melted the Ice, Richard is deeply impacted my Charles’s determination to find him. He is struck by his emotions and becomes extremely sentimental. As Richard says, “I miss him. Despite the double decade absence, we managed to reconnect to each other, and there’s a part of him that travels with me in everything”(Wagamese 1), he is stating his feelings and emotions towards his brother’s decision. The daughter in The First Day, acquires a completely different perspective in regards to her mother after observing her embarrassment in front of the receptionist. She realizes how determined her mother is regardless of how illiterate she may be. The little girl states, “I can still hear my mother’s footsteps above all”(Jones 5). Rhetorically speaking, it is obvious that she values her mother more now and is not ashamed of her. The story Just Lather, That’s All also represents the impacts of determination. Captain Torres is mildly impacted by the barber’s decision. Torres enters the barber shop to find out if whether or not he will be murdered, only to discover that the answer is in fact no. He clearly states, “They told me you would kill me. I came to find out. But killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it”(Téllez 5). This informs the reader that the barber’s decision impacted …show more content…
One characteristic that is represented extensively is determination. In the case of Shinny Game Melted the Ice, there is a relationship between Richard and Charles, the protagonists, and the Children’s Aid Society, the antagonist. Richard’s statement, “It was he who, after 20 years later, managed to track me down through Children’s Aid Society records and bring me back home”(Wagamese 1), proves that contrast relationship between the protagonists and the antagonist reunited the two brothers. In The First Day, the same concept applies for the relationship between the mother, the protagonist, and the daughter, the antagonist. As a reader, one can observe that near the beginning of the story, the daughter is not close with her mother. As the story progresses she begins to realize all her mother’s hardships. The conflict between the two causes them to develop closure. Towards the end of the story the daughter says, “I touch her lips and press them together. It is an old game between us”(Jones 5). This shows that she is developing a very proper mother to daughter relationship. In Just Lather That’s All, there is a neutral relationship between the barber, the protagonist, and the Captain, the antagonist. The barber realizes that Torres came for a different reason than for a shave, yet Torres is surprised that the barber did not murder him. A quote that exemplifies
Life is primarily built around decisions. Determination falls under this same principle. Many scenarios of which determination helps an individual to make a healthy decision is predominant within Shinny Game Melted the …show more content…
In Shinny Game Melted the Ice, Richard is deeply impacted my Charles’s determination to find him. He is struck by his emotions and becomes extremely sentimental. As Richard says, “I miss him. Despite the double decade absence, we managed to reconnect to each other, and there’s a part of him that travels with me in everything”(Wagamese 1), he is stating his feelings and emotions towards his brother’s decision. The daughter in The First Day, acquires a completely different perspective in regards to her mother after observing her embarrassment in front of the receptionist. She realizes how determined her mother is regardless of how illiterate she may be. The little girl states, “I can still hear my mother’s footsteps above all”(Jones 5). Rhetorically speaking, it is obvious that she values her mother more now and is not ashamed of her. The story Just Lather, That’s All also represents the impacts of determination. Captain Torres is mildly impacted by the barber’s decision. Torres enters the barber shop to find out if whether or not he will be murdered, only to discover that the answer is in fact no. He clearly states, “They told me you would kill me. I came to find out. But killing isn’t easy. You can take my word for it”(Téllez 5). This informs the reader that the barber’s decision impacted …show more content…
One characteristic that is represented extensively is determination. In the case of Shinny Game Melted the Ice, there is a relationship between Richard and Charles, the protagonists, and the Children’s Aid Society, the antagonist. Richard’s statement, “It was he who, after 20 years later, managed to track me down through Children’s Aid Society records and bring me back home”(Wagamese 1), proves that contrast relationship between the protagonists and the antagonist reunited the two brothers. In The First Day, the same concept applies for the relationship between the mother, the protagonist, and the daughter, the antagonist. As a reader, one can observe that near the beginning of the story, the daughter is not close with her mother. As the story progresses she begins to realize all her mother’s hardships. The conflict between the two causes them to develop closure. Towards the end of the story the daughter says, “I touch her lips and press them together. It is an old game between us”(Jones 5). This shows that she is developing a very proper mother to daughter relationship. In Just Lather That’s All, there is a neutral relationship between the barber, the protagonist, and the Captain, the antagonist. The barber realizes that Torres came for a different reason than for a shave, yet Torres is surprised that the barber did not murder him. A quote that exemplifies