English 30-1
Mr .wheaton In our lives, we come to a point where we have to make decisions of our life. We sometimes do what others what us to do in the process we lose our own identity.It's hard for an individual to become the person they want to become because there are afraid that people would not like their true self.People expect us to act in a certain way based on our gender.In the story, the glass rose by Alden Nowlan the protagonist's struggle with whether he wants to become the expectations of man that his father sits out for him or be a man he wants to become.
Stephen is 15 years old boy, who works at the local pulp mill with his father and all the other …show more content…
because of Stephen father, he believes that man should not listen to stories about fairy tales .“ Feeling a little twinge of guilt he was a man now men do not tell one another a fairy tales about cathedrals .but his father and the men at the bunkhouse need never know”.In this line, Stephen feels guilt by listening to the stories leak told him because he is afraid that by listening he will not be a real man, and that his father and the other men shouldn't know because the will think that he is being childish and he should grow up. After being around leka Stephen begun to think differently about what it means to be a real man. Lekas views of what real man is different than Stephen's father because he believes a real man is sensitive and expressive of his emotions.He opens Stephen mind to both views regarding manhood. Know Stephen became opened to another view of what being a real man means, he knows that men don't really have to be strong and the can express their emotions as well.By being open to others view of manhood he struggles if he should choose to be like his father or be a man he wants to …show more content…
‘’When the Polack began to tremble and moan, Stephen hesitated for a long time before he reached out to wake him’’. this line shows how Stephen comes to a point where he decided what kind of man he wants to be by choosing to not follow his father's order, when he woke leka up from his