For His Son

where the son gives up on trying to make a basket, the father pulls him by his ear and slams the ball hard into his stomach. Then, the father rambles on about eating an apple everyday and saying prayers can help you accomplish tasks. The father continues with this statement, “Argue and I’ll slap your eyes out.” (Koperwas). At first the father was immensly certain, his son was going to develop into an excellent basketball player. He’d showed absolute encouragement when he first gave the son the…

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…

the story of a feary tempting a child to escape the “weeping” of his human world while chapines song recount the experience of the distant relationship between a father and son. Both work share moments in life of a child that is important to not miss out on family moment. Both pieces conduct an explanation that explore a bad situation in a childhood. With the different than one can escape and the other is going to deal with his childhood. Yeats states, “come away, O human child! To the…

has been assigned the demotion of his father from the underbutler position he holds, and give him a job with fewer responsibilities. As we read the excerpt we uncover the son’s anxious tone because of the intimidation he has of the father. However, we also see the father's indifferent tone, that conveys the strained relationship between the him and his son. While the son attempts to engage in a relaxed conversation, his father is emotionless to anything his son has to say. The author uses…

Having gained the fathers consent to work with him and his child, I was able to establish a trusting relationship between us through my use of good communcation, such as open body language (NMC, 2010). Which is essentially when working with patients (NICE, 2012). I understood how important social interaction was for not just the son 's development but also the fathers health. The PIESS model of healthcare (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social…

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…

the relationship of a father and his son. The father is angered by the fact that his son has been stung by nettles, and shows violence and aggression. The poem basically talks about how parents try to protect their children, but later on realize that their children can’t be protected form everything. The poem starts off with, “My son aged three fell in the nettle bed”. Using the personal pronoun “My” shows that this is a personal poem. And by telling us that his son is aged three shows how…

In Li-young Lee’s poem A Story, Lee uses literary devices such as syntax and dialogue in order to convey the complex relationship of the father and son to the reader and ultimately deliver the message that a parent can give and give to their child, but eventually the time will come for that child to part ways with them and start on a new journey. To begin this poem, Lee gives us a look into the life and feelings of the father in the poem. He uses syntax effectively as he opens the poem with,…

and almost oblivious to his father’s suffering. The old man also can’t seem to figure out what to say, distant in his eyes as if lost in thought. Both seem to have difficulty communicating in the current situation. The old man might not speak to his son, worried he might burst into tears or say something selfish, like begging his son to stay. The young man doesn’t even seem concerned about his father’s expression, or even attempt to recognize the suffering and pain in his father’s eyes. He…

prize in 2007. The Road is about a father and a son who have to try and find a way to survive a post-apocalyptic world. In this world, the will to survive causes a loss in morality and values. The choices people make in order to survive defines whether they’re good or evil, and these choices must be made everyday. As illustrated in The Road , the father and the boy set out making good choices, but as time progresses, the father starts to lose his moral compass. McCarthy describes a split in…