Father Time

emptiness and loneliness. The most difficult part is saying goodbye. There is no right time. There is no right way. There is just the grief that follows. Losing someone can devastated a person. They become blind to opportunities of happiness. In the stories Our Town by Thornton Wilder and Sounder by William H. Armstrong, death happens. How does a person move on after such a big loss? The boy in Sounder loses not only his father but his loyal dog. In the play Our Town, George Gibbs loses his…

The father is honored before the community if she keeps herself pure before marriage as a demonstration of her love to her father. If she is not able to keep herself pure the shame is not only on her, but the greater shame lies on her father who has failed the community to raise her up properly. To the moderns this may be a far-fetched core conception since most moderns no…

Reflecting back to Marek’s childhood, he claims he lost his father in a car accident possibility due to alcohol. He also stated it was hard for him growing up due to the loss of his father. As Marek was taking on responsibilities of his father, it seems he really did not have much the best support system. A strong support system can help Marek boost his self-esteem, and motivate him to want to get better…

love and care about. She grew up in a home with a father that wasn’t there for her. Although, deep down, she knew her father had to love her, she felt as if she was completely invisible to him. This took a major tole on her emotionally, which led her to make some life-changing decisions. Sponagle’s childhood caused her a lot of emotional damage. In the article, she appeals to the readers pathos by describing her childhood, and the damage her father caused her emotionally from his actions and…

was covered by sand and bird dropping stains when it was close to winter season. That is because he would be reaching the final stages of training his bird. I recall seeing him sitting at one end of his huge backyard. At the other end would be my father with the falcon. He would release the bird once my uncle calls for it. The falcon, if trained properly, would fly to my uncle and would be rewarded with some…

Now that my father, the royal King Dasaratha is getting older. He knows that he doesn’t have much time left on this Earth. He thinks he has lived long enough. He plans to give his throne to my oldest brother Rama, because he is the most suitable out of us four brothers. My father has told everyone about his decision. He has even started preparing for Rama’s ascension to the throne. All my father’s wives are pleased, including my mother, Kaikeyi. However, everything is changing after that evil…

24 hours. We all have the same amount of time each and every single day. What we choose to do with that time is entirely up to us. My late father, Sam, who never promoted past grade school, managed to help his parents raise their family in the Philippines when he was a child, married and worked to get all of my half siblings to America “in search of the American Dream”, and along with his second wife, my mother, raised both my only full brother and I, to be hard-working, respectable adults.…

is simple to conceptualize and easy to understand, but it's this mantra that led an ordinary farm boy into an extraordinary life, a different reality. My dad grew up in a rural part of China where subsistence farming was the only way of life in that time. As the only boy among 6 children, his family expected him to continue the glorious, or not so glorious, tradition of tending to the fields and…

In the short story “The Boat”, Alistair Macleod describes the conflicting relationship between a mother and a father based on their different attitudes about their children’s futures. The story is told through the perspective of the son in the family, looking back on his childhood in the 1930’s in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. The narrator begins the story with the first trip he took with his dad on their boat. It was a 32 by 9 foot “Cape Island boat” designed for small inshore fisherman. Coming…

governing human existence; his death is a meaningless tragedy that defies justification. Likewise, society perpetuates the idea of morality in order to create a definition of order, however in a life with no meaning morality becomes useless. Similarly, Father Dom attempts to add a sense of morality in the second hunger strike Bobby attempts against the British: “ You…