All My Sons

Katherine Mansfield's short story, "The fly," is about a man who is struggling with his grief over his son untimely death. The man, referred to only as "the boss", uses different coping techniques throughout the story to avoid dealing with his loss. By avoiding dealing with his son's death the boss's has found a way to hold on to his son. The prevailing theme in the fly is people use a variety of ways to cope with overwhelming grief including controlling their surroundings, avoidance of the…

In Death of a Salesman by, Arthur Miller, Willy has a desire to be a good father to his son were his dad was not. Willy believes that if he can instill the correct values into Biff so he can be like himself or more successful. The problem Willy is confronted with is that he cares too much as if he is trying to emulate his life in Biffs. Compared to Willy Charley takes a position of hands off while still teaching Bernard to be a good student and by working hard because it will pay dividends later…

A Fathers’ and Sons Contrast. “Father I’m yours.”(line 720) Haemon says has he introduces himself to his father Creon. He then goes on to say “For me your judgments and the way you act on them are good, I shall follow them. I’ll not consider any marriage a greater benefit than your fine judgment.”(lines 720-724) But then goes on to actually contrast his father's motivations with his words, actions and ideas. The conflicting motivations Heamon has with his father brings out the bitterness,…

Every father has advice to pass down to his son. The poems "Any Man's Advice to His Son" by Kenneth Fearling, "A Father Sees a Son Nearning Manhood" by Carl Sandburg, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, and Book of Proverbs written by King Solomon, all feature poems in which fathers explain to their sons advice that is vital in real life. The advice I would give to my son would be to avoid trusting every man, not letting life take you down, obeying parents, fearing the Lord, shunning evil and to keep your…

passage by Dalton Trumbo he shows that the father and son have a trustworthy relationship. The author showed this mostly when the son said that Bill Harper was coming and they were going to go fishing. He also shows that they have a strong bond with each other which helps his father have a trustworthy bond with his son. Bill Harper had no fishing rod so the son told his dad and then his dad said that Bill Harper could use his sons rod and his son can use his rod. This shows that their…

to his father but the roles switched, where he was once following his father, his father is now following him. Seamus Heaney creates an ending of emotion, it makes the readers think about what has happened between the relationship of the father and son. Heaney uses Interior monologue, characterisation of himself and his father and sentence structure, to create…

managed to find joy in the midst of all the struggles and hardships. His losses include incidents from his childhood, from the time he left Africa to becoming a slave, and from the time he was declared liberated. Throughout his time, Smith was able to see through the negativity from the losses and look beyond to what he was able to gain in his life in order to find the happiness he wanted in the end. Smith’s experienced losses in the earliest stages…

the Forest True Son deserved the sentence his father gave him because of the laws True Son had broken. True son was ungrateful, cruel, and disrespectful in all his choices. These actions make such a sentence of being banned just and not overly harsh. Cuyloga made the right choice in banning True Son for the acts he committed because of disrespect, ungratefulness, and cruelness. True Sons sentence was not just but deserved and there are many reflective reason that prove True Sons sentence was…

The story “The Fly” by Katherine Mansfield tells the story of a man who has lost his son due to a war. It shows how difficult it can be for someone to come to terms with losing a loved one and being able to move on. This process takes different amounts of time for everyone. For some, it’s a few months. For others, it’s long torturous years. In the boss’s case, it has been six painful years knowing his son will never return. He has great difficulty getting over his son’s death, although he is…

In 1984 Rembrandt’s, Return of the Prodigal Son, caught the eye of author Henri Nouwen. Since discovering the painting in a friends room that fall, Nouwen has gone on this life long spiritual journey of discovering parts himself he had never paid close attention to before. During this process Nouwen was able to define the three stages in which he believes are all apart of the spiritual journey of one’s life. Although Nouwen makes it clear he hasn’t completely gone through the full process, he…