For His Son

In The Metamorphosis, a novel by Franz Kafka, the protagonist Gregor Samsa Wakes up to realize he is an insect. The tragedy of a working man that maintains his family and that later turns into a useless insect can symbolize the typical male figures worst nightmare, being unable to support his family financially. The figure of an insect can symbolize a similar “disease” that the protagonist on “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman was suffering from. In the “Gender and Pathology In…

Too Much to Handle (Proposing a Solution to the Prodigal Son) King James Published his Bible in 1611, which became the single most important work of literature that was immensely important in standardizing the English language. In this bible, there is a certain parable that has a lot of meaning and is still being taught in literature today. This parable, Prodigal Son has a tremendous amount of lessons taught and many meanings behind it. These meanings lie within the problems within the story,…

In The Road by Cormac McCarthy, the story follows the struggle of a father and his son to survive in a post-apocalyptic world where inhumanity, despair, and violence in a loveless world do not seem to save much room for peace and triumph. However, despite the absence of empathy and basic humanity, McCarthy does somehow achieve to highlight some pleasant themes all over the story: the themes of morality, hope, and love that are embodied through the father and son's journey on the road. One of…

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 relationship is trustworthy because the rod is his…

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…

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 slowly in the process…

father and son 's journey they are left “carrying the fire. The reason the father and son,…

A double-bladed axe, a pair of broken glasses, and a father and a son, this is a story about the dangers of conflicts. In the story "Scars" written by Don Aker, is where a son will learn the love of his father that is expressed in a completely different way. The father’s love for his son Daniel was one that the son cannot understand. However, the father’s optimism about whatever happens, his hardworking actions, and the love of his family proves that he is a father who cares about the family…

Hayden expressed his love towards his father through his poem “Those Winter Sundays”. Even in the weekend day also his father work hard with his cracked hands occurred during his labour work. He goes to the work in the blueblack cold. This did not make the father disappointed. In his poems, the author uses simple language that the commoners can also gets the meaning. Here, the father loves his son more and work hard for their living earnings. Through the lines author narrates his childhood…

The New Testament church found themselves engaging in a repeated discussion regarding where a male needed to go through the process of circumcision or not in order to be accepted as a believer. Paul, in his many letters to the New Testament church informs them that circumcision is not required to be saved because once an individual is saved then there is a circumcision of the heart. In Galatians 5:2, he states that, “…if you become circumcised, Christ…