All My Sons

each young man share their stories. It was easy to sense they all were fighting inner demons. They speak with acceptances of the situation which is understandable due to the fact they can not change anything. One of the main people in the film, Erik had no chance at life. He seemed to have it all… good parents, beautiful home, seemed like a generally a good person. It was very heartbreaking to see his parents taking the trip to see their son that they will never see have a chance at life or…

the poem created a more definite mood and mood shift. Without these two, the poem would have been stale and would not have been as impactful and would not have been successful in displaying the regret the narrator had for not thanking his father for all he had done for…

There is a list of “developmental tasks” that Robert Havighurst in the reading “When Do You Become an Adult”: finding a mate, learning to live with a partner, starting a family, raising children, beginning an occupation, running a home. However, as we discussed in class, these tasks of adulthood are being increasingly delayed because of the technology revolution, sexual revolution, and women’s revolution. And thus, Robin Marantz Henig in “What Is It About 20-Somethings” suggested the cultural…

own parent would work strenuous hours instead of spending time with him, as all of the other dads did with their sons, hurt him. Therefore, it is quite apparent that their relationship is strained at this point, but it is hard to find fault with just one man in the poem. The austere relationship between them is not only caused by the father, but also the innocent son being kept blind from other characters of love. The son fears “the chronic angers of [his] house” (9) like they are individuals in…

that he failed to establish a legacy for his sons and that a man nowadays “is worth more than alive” he takes his life. At this point in the play, Willy realized that he had nothing to leave to his sons and that he not accomplished anything resembling his American Dream. When Willy states that “nothing’s planted, I don’t have a thing in the ground” (Miller,12) the seeds symbolize Willy’s failure as a salesman to create a legacy for himself and his sons. The futile nature in which he comes to…

and so much more. Another thing to note is how he says the neighbor can’t be swayed from his statement of “Good fences make good neighbors” which is says the neighbor learned from his father. Therefore, it almost comes off as a tradition, but, in all actuality, it’s an inherited behavior from his…

Whatever Happened to Leyland? In a small bedroom of an average flat, inside a large building lived a remarkably boring middle-aged man named Leyland Stokes. Leyland Stokes was often dissatisfied, but one couldn’t blame him. His room, a bit too small; his gut, a bit too big, and his life a bit too ordinary. To add further dissatisfaction to his life, just one day prior to now, he’d come a hair’s breadth from losing his job as an accountant, and was much less lucky with his relationship. Today, he…

Exposition - Marvin is 10 years old, and his father is taking him through the different levels of the colony to a place he's never been before: They hop in a little scouting vechile with a pressurized cabin and take off away from the colony. Rising Action - As Marvin and his father leave the plateau wth the colony on it behind, they entered a darkened world surrounded by high mountains. Marvin is nervous as they pass a crashed rocket…

Cintrón & Son Auto Parts and Salvage, he had to clean and polish a large amount of hubcaps. He wasn’t really looking forward to it either. In the beginning, Luis knew that “...his father has had more than one reason to wish it was plain Jorge Cintrón”, which included the group of friends he hung out with (page 440). Luis had felt disappointment coming from his father. When his father asked him to come to look at one of Naomi’s intact hubcaps, he “tossed a wrench he’d…

image is the mirror, in which one can see the apparently disappointed and exasperated father who plays half the role in defining the visual representation of this father-son relationship. It can be assumed that the younger man in the image is the boy, perhaps named Lorenzo, and he is a struggling writer. There is crumpled paper all over the floor, and filling the waste basket. He is seated in a chair with fresh paper on the desk, pen in hand, espresso cup at the ready. The immediate expression…