All My Sons

in all communications. In James Baldwin’s essay “Notes of a Native Son”, he elaborates on his ideas by providing a philosophical aspect towards his work. An example is when he experienced a life-altering event and reflected upon it by saying “I could not get over two facts, both equally difficult for the imagination to grasp, and one was that I could have been murdered, But the other was that I had been ready to commit murder” (Baldwin 72). Baldwin continues to provide insight by saying “…my…

The author quotes Ari’s inner thoughts in a bitter way, a feeling directed towards his dad, “So that’s what it was. When Ari was eight, [I] didn’t know anything about war…..All [I] knew is that sometimes [my] father was sad. [I] hated that [my father was sad]. It made [me] sad too” (Saenz 14). The quote informs readers on how the author uses Ari’s inner thoughts to indirectly characterize his father’s trauma by stating what he thinks and feels about it. Stating…

By beginning the first line with "Sundays too my father got up early,"(line 1) the poet clearly imply that his father got up early not only on Sundays, but also during the entire week. This line is a way to give an image of the hard worker that his father was. His father renounced to the opportunity…

While all of the female characters (Wendy, Tinkerbell and Tiger Lily) all have some implied romantic attraction to Peter, he not only does not reciprocate their feelings, but seems completely oblivious. When prodded by Wendy about his feelings he answers that he feels"those of a devoted son.” (98) He is puzzled by Wendy’s disappointment at this and notes that “Tiger Lily is just the same. There is something she wants to be to me, but she says it is not my mother.”(98) To be forever…

has to watch her husband fall to pieces striving for something he isn’t capable of, even if she believes in him fully. The younger son, though more of a success in the eyes of his family, is unsatisfied with his success, and it will never be enough, even though he has achieved happiness. The oldest son, though he grew up celebrated and pumped up to think he can do…

including the bacha posh in Afghanistan. The bacha posh tradition is an obvious practice for families without a son since it gives girls in the Afghan culture an opportunity to have more freedom as they also provide more stability for their families; however, there are negative psychological consequences to becoming a bacha posh that families do not think of when converting their daughters into sons. It is important to acknowledge both the pros and cons of this tradition for the sake…

Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.” In conclusion, Little Bee, Sarah and Charlie all learn how to take the mask that they’ve hid behind and embrace the real them. Sarah and Little Bee realizes that sacrificing themselves was beneficial to their gain as selfless women. It showed them, how strong they really were as women. They learned…

however it takes time to realize the reason behind whatever the parents do for their child. It may not seem like parents do not love their child, but parents are the one who can love their child the most which no one else can do. For example, the son did not realize the care and love that his father used to do for him. After being a grown man he realized his father was a different personality person than what he thought about him which took him time. A person 's appearance does not describe…

What makes stories all the more memorable are the lessons they teach. Is Breaking Home Ties showing any type of lesson here, or is it more of a single frame caught during a story that has not yet reached its moral? We have two sides of this story, told by each of the characters…

This data is used to measure occupational mobility for 5,000 father-son pairs split between the Britain and the US. The authors recorded the occupation of fathers in 1850/1851 and thirty years later recorded the occupation sons in 1880/1881. Job titles were split into four categories: white collar, farmer, skilled and semiskilled, and unskilled. For 20th century data the, authors used the Oxford…