Lost Son

man seems excited 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…

have gone through and I’m still going through and today that means I have love and truth and justice and character. A few years ago, I lost a high paying job; I worked very hard to get to that leveling/ position “behavior interventionist”. In short I had problems paying my rent I ran home, with my son; not because I wasn’t working or didn’t have money,. I had lost my courage; I thought something was wrong with me as a woman of God and as a person. I started to make wrong decisions (vision) after…

power. The role of the son in their works shines light onto how rulers in their quest to retain power can be threatened even by those who support them. This fear causes the father to push their son away thus fulfilling their fears as the sons’ future actions lead to a destabilization in the political order. This destabilization is show to be a loss of political power as the son either supplants their role or renders the king politically useless. In short, for the father a son is a symbol of the…

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…

from the tree” is a well-known expression that holds true for most father-son relationships. However, in the novel The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini many father son relationships fall apart due to the event of their son following their footsteps not taking place. This is most evident in the relationship between Baba and his two sons, Amir and Hassan. When a child lacks an empathetic fatherly figure and healthy father-son relationship, consequences can arise due to the actions taken to achieve…

nights were long and dark and cold beyond anything they’d yet encountered. Cold to crack the stones. To take your life” (McCarthy 14). Cormac McCarthy writes of an apocalyptic world in The Road. In a world collapsing from an explosion; a man and his son fight to survive with fire on their side. Fire is not only used to give them hope of survival, but also represents their ethics, knowledge, and even life and death. Fire stands for hope as it is used to encourage survivors to carry on. A…

or reach valued goals which lead to finding other means to reach their goals. The second strain is when someone loses something that was important to them, which leads to crime because the individual either attempts to get back or replace what was lost or looks for revenge on who had taken what they had away. The third strain is an individual…

to succumb to a nuclear apocalypse? The critically acclaimed author, Cormac McCarthy, devises his own interpretation of a fallout, and expresses it through his literary masterpiece, The Road. McCarthy’s novel shares the experiences of a father and son wandering through an ash-filled and decimated wasteland in a post-nuclear war scenario, and their encounters with the few remaining survivors. McCarthy depicts the end of the end of morality, and the decline of religion simultaneously with the…

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…

to given up his citizenship, rightful place within his own family, and his cultural values because of his current situation. Famines occur on several occasions throughout the Bible. It is a time where there is scarce food throughout the region. This son found himself in such a destitute position that he had become a citizen of a foreign county and became a servant considering eating swine. Jews were prohibited from interacting with swine because they were deemed unclean. According to Leviticus…