All My Sons

Tobias Wolf’s Powder he tells a story of a father and son trip. The father and son are on a skiing trip, and the father is supposed to have the son home for Christmas Eve dinner. It is apparent that the mother and father are separated, and the father knows if he has any chance left with the mother, he must get his son home for dinner. They end up getting snowed in, and despite the snow, the father decides to risk, getting stuck to make sure the son gets home. Wolf uses the process of writing so…

two men share. Instead of being energetic, chaotic, or even unsettling, the “nine thousand feet” of isolation between the camping trip and the rest of civilization is met with comfort and ease, something that seems to reflect the way the father and son feel about each other. There appears to be no discomfort between the two, as they are fully content to “[sit] across from [each other] and [stare] into the fire” in silence. It becomes clear that the two are very comfortable with each other and…

ends up in another town of people and she meets a new family. While staying with this new family at first, she stays hesitant to open up to them of the events that preceded her arrival. Ana chooses not to speak, but a bond does begin to form with the son of the family named Damir, who ends up being a part of a resistance group. Ana seeks her innocence within this new setting. She begins by heading to the resistance group’s hangout and also slowly gets comfortable with the new family. However,…

The father and the son lived in dark and dreary world, filled with violent people. In the book The Road, the father looked at his son for hope and mercy. The son carries the fire within him throughout the book showing that he has the light and hope to stay positive and survive through the rough and ashed world. The motif of this novel is light versus dark because they live in a dark place that they are trying to escape by making fires and the son carrying the fire. The way they lived was hard…

When a child grows up, he or she will reflect and remember the type of person he was. The speakers in these two poems describe their memories and are reflecting back their father’s actions. In the poems “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden and “My Papa’s Waltz” by Theodore Roethke, the speakers, view their fathers as…

Generally speaking, people are ruthless, cold, unforgiving and eager to take legal action when their overglorified pile of funds is affected; although this may be true, there are still exceptions. Lorraine Hansberry’s play, A Raisin in the Sun, focuses on a struggling black family. Members of the family, include Walter Lee Younger, the overambitious and dreamer, his wife, Ruth Younger, who is responsible for jolting him back to reality, Travis Younger, the naive child, Beneatha Younger, the…

novel A Father who Keeps His Promises: God's Covenant Love in Scripture by Scott Hahn highlights the significant events in Scripture. Hahn starts with a story of a father in Armenia digging through the rubble of a collapsed school to save his son. When his son is found alive, he states that his father would never forget him. God is similar to the father, as he always saved humans from destruction and kept his promises. Hahn reveals that in Genesis 1 God created the world in six days, and the…

bond and never ending love that forms is automatic. It is fair to say that signs of affection differentiate between each family. Some show their love in more physical or more audible ways than others. In Brad Manning’s “Arm Wrestling with My Father”, a son (Brad Manning) struggles with where he lies when it comes to his relationship with his father. The two do not show affection through the most often used “I love you” or through hugs, but rather through arm wrestling matches. When the…

and that paying on Larry debt would push him back a couple of years, but he didn’t mind because that was his son. In the end Larry said he had received a call about platinum in Chile as a new business and was going to try that at first. He asks the father for money to start this new business even though he owe money to bookers and the father still gives him money. Larry also leaves his son with Cool and the father just tells him don’t worry about it. Frank allows Larry to do what every he wants…

This story revolves around and old man and his unconventional relationship with his caretaker. The postmaster hailing from Calcutta, feels like a fish out of water in the remote village of Ulapur where he works. There, he led a lonely life, with little company and minimal work to do. To cope with this, he often engaged himself in writing poetry describing his peaceful and isolated surroundings. He had Ratan, an orphan girl of the village, to do odd jobs for him. He shared with her his meals,…