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    The plot ‘All My Sons” is set in August 1947 in a mid-eastern American town. The time of the play is between Sunday morning and a little after two o’clock of the following morning. Arthur Miller describe Joe Keller as a heavy man of stolid mind, a businessman for many years who sacrificed everything including his honor, in his struggles to make the family prosper. However, he has totally different actions with different characters in his family. Joe Keller is sixty-one years old. He is the main…

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    The book, ‘Crazy Times with Uncle Ken’ (2011) chronicles the deeds and misdeeds, adventures and misadventures of Uncle Ken, who helped to enliven Ruskin Bond’s boyhood days. Uncle Ken lived under the dominion of several strong-minded-women – his mother, four sisters, and several cousins and nieces. So, he needed an ally, and sometimes he found an ally in Ruskin. His jobs did not last very long, his grandiose schemes were unsuccessful, and he got both Ruskin and himself – into trouble every…

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    In Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun, the leading character is trying to capture the American dream, but it just does not seem to happen because of lack of understanding from family and friends. Willy Loman in a Raisin in the Sun, was wanting the respect of people associated with him and Walter Younger in Death of a Salesman was trying a get rich quick plan to be able to support his family. Both men talked about the American dream and how they deserved it and was their right, but it…

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    The themes of “The Red Bow” and “Adams” exhibit a father’s desperate attempt to ensure the safety of his family and his community. Both father’s go through great measures to protect their family and community from ever enduring the pain and anger that they feel inside. This motivates both fathers to act in a violent way only one is acting in the fact that his daughter was viciously killed by a dog, and the other one found his neighbor standing in his house facing his children’s room while…

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    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…

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    Nettles Poem Analysis

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    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 young…

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    Uniform- The uniform his father wears for his job is a symbol of his father’s dignity, as well as Gregor’s changing feelings of pity and respect for him. Throughout the story, his father is shown primarily from Gregor’s point of view. We gain from him a picture of his father as a lazy and miserable man whom Gregor feels sorry for but not necessarily respects. But when Gregor runs out of his and sees his father for the first time in weeks, Gregor’s opinion of the father changes. This shift is…

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    In the poem “My Father Thought it”, Armitage talks about his struggle between father and son as the son grows up and their relationship which tried to declare his own identity. The end rhyme makes the poem easier to remember as it “sticks” in reader’s mind. Both the poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “My father Thought it…” are talking about the relationship between the father and the son and remembering their father’s actions and words as a memory. The opening line of…

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    INTRO I What is the ideal father? Someone that loves his son or daughter? Someone that protects them? Not someone who beats and abuses their child. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is about a boy and slave that are both trying to run away from their life problems. Jim is not Hucks biological father but in the time they spent together he acted like more of a father then Pap ever had. Making Jim a better father figure to Huck then Pap ever was. BODY II Jim is a father figure to huck because he…

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    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…

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