All My Sons

E.B White’s “Once More to the Lake” explores his intrapersonal struggle with mortality as he takes his son to a lake that his father used to bring him to. The thesis in the second paragraph written as, “It is strange how much you can remember about places like that once you allow your mind to return into the grooves which lead back” is supported throughout the essay as he transitions through time periods of life by viewing himself in his own child and father’s eyes. This is also the point in the…

post war Brooklyn 1949, when Americans are striving for the American Dream reaches full force. The play is taking place during the last twenty-four hours of Willy Lomans life. The Lomans are family that consists of Willy the father, Linda his wife, sons Biff and Happy. The play starts in a gloomy setting with the Loman’s home crowded by apartment buildings. A home once with a yard filled with grass and trees. The house and the yard evolve over the course of Miller’s play, as does the family.…

content and so did the son. “Lili got up from the floor and inclined her face towards her husband’s in order to receive her nightly peck on the cheek” (Danticat pg.54). It had seemed that there was a daily routine between the family. Content from both the wife, Lili, and the husband, Guy, was also sensed because there was never once a harsh argument or dispatch. When the family had went to an open field to relax, happiness came from Lili. “Lili lay peacefully on the grass as her son and husband…

For my second step in researching Plato I have picked one of his written works titled ‘Laches, or Courage’ to read. I have completed reading this Dialogue type story that is between forty-four, fifty, to fifty-two pages depending on the type, font and format it is in. This story is about written 380 B.C.E and is about Socrates who speaks with two fathers and sons about learning the arts of military fighting, and what courage really is about. Socrates asks many questions in Plato’s writings…

Arm wrestling with my father is about a boy and his father being competitive in arm wrestling and them having a physical relationship, more than your typical father son relationship. Arm wrestling was a thing he did with his father and how they expressed their love for each other. His father didn’t really know how to express his love for him son so he showed it through physical sports which was arm wrestling. The love him and his father had for each other was always there, even though they…

never did… Make him pay, son, for all those years he put us out of his mind.”(p.3). In other words, protagonist’s mother Dolorita asks Juan Preciado to get his vengeance upon his father Pedro Paramo who never cared about them. As we later find out, his neglecting duties as an exemplary husband and father is not the only factor that contributed to Dolorita’s vehement hatred of Pedro. On his way to Comala, Juan Preciado meets Abundio who reveals to him that he is not the only son of Pedro Paramo.…

Jesus’ Son Book Review Jesus’ Son is a novel written by Denis Johnson. The genre is Fiction. It is 133 pages long and is about 14 dollars. This novel was published in 1992. This book is a novel full of different short stories that make up the chapters. The narrator is an unknown drug user that is just shifting us through different incidents that he has either witnessed or been a part of. There is no exact theme, in my opinion. Each chapter has a different story to tell with one thing in common;…

2 Moments Moment 1 Act 4 Scene 2 “Wrong Baby Daddy” This scene is right after Tamara has had her child, who everyone believes was Saturninus’s son. However given the babies dark complexion it is easy for them to conclude it is Aaron the Moor’s child. The nurse who helped deliver the baby immediately comes to alert Aaron of this awful doing. Chiron and Demetrius, who happened to be there with Aaron praying for their mothers well being, are outraged when they discover that he, a trusted…

home as a form of love. He now sees it, because he is a gown up and is completely matured. The speaker is telling us that his father every Sunday get up early to light fires in the fireplace to warm up their home. When the house was warm he awaken his son to dress. “When the rooms were warm, he’d call, / and slowly I would rise and dress”(Line 7-8). The speaker regrets that he never…

individuals?/ Disgusted and revolted… For I disrespected many good folk”(1-39). You can tell that he is very upset with himself and he realizes all the mistakes he has made. Along with that, he asks questions then tries answering them himself. In “If” the author, Rudyard Kipling, has a very uplifting and motivational tone, evincing: “If you can make one heap of all of your winnings/ and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings/ And never breathe a…