Son

(Tension Between Father and Son) Have you ever gotten into a fight with your parents? Did it ever seem like your parent was favoring your sibling or leaving you out? In the story “The Prodigal Son,” by King James the eldest brother felt like his father was treating him unfairly. In the story a father of two sons, gives his youngest son ten million dollars for him to go blow in Vegas, while the eldest son stayed home and worked in the fields. When the youngest son comes home broke and homeless, he was hoping to at least be able to be a servant of his father’s because he was sure that his father would reject him. To his surprise, his father welcomed him home with a huge party. When the eldest son heard of the party he became furious and jealous. He wasn’t mad at his brother for getting a party, but more mad at his dad for throwing him a party for nothing. When his father asked him to come into the…

Baldwin’s Relationship with his father The excerpt from the book “Notes of a Native Son” discusses the relationship between Baldwin, and his father. Throughout the story, Baldwin states his honesty in his opinions regarding how he viewed and interacted with his father. In which Baldwin despised the characteristics of his dad and how he inherits unwanting features…

Problem in the Prodigal Son The Adventures of Hoyt’s Writing There are many problems that people face. People face problems everyday, they are in fact inevitable. But to every problem I believe there to be a solution. I feel very strongly that whatever life throws at you, there is always someway to get around, under, or over it. Every problem that I’ve faced I’ve waded into it head first. I’ve never been a guy to ignore the issue at hand. I always try to stand up to the situation and find a…

Mother to Son The poem “Mother to Son” written by Langston Hughes and published in 1922 is a very inspiring poem of a mother speaking to her son about not giving up. The mother speaks about life’s hardships and encourages her son to keep going and to not give up. There are many different words and phrases that the mother uses to symbolize certain parts of her life and specific things she has gone through during her life. I really like this poem because of the love and wisdom this mother is…

equal is intelligence. For instance, some parents tend to think that their sons are smarter than their daughters are. They believe that their sons will exceed educationally more than their daughters. For example, in the New York Times they states that “Parents are two and a half times more likely to ask “Is my son gifted?” than “Is my daughter gifted?” However, in reality, girls are about 11 percent more likely to be in a gifted program than boys. Research also showed us that “only about three…

Exploring Father/Son Relationships Imagine yourself standing next to your son, the only other inhabitant of the land with a pulse for miles around. The dismal earth is covered with gray ash, the air thick with the particles. Envision yourself scouring for food to diminish the boy’s hunger in every corner of every ashy room, coming across nothing but bones and more ash. Now, picture yourself and your son in the small, religious community of Gilead, Iowa. The townspeople are caring and…

Every father has advice to pass down to his son. The poems "Any Man's Advice to His Son" by Kenneth Fearling, "A Father Sees a Son Nearning Manhood" by Carl Sandburg, "If" by Rudyard Kipling, and Book of Proverbs written by King Solomon, all feature poems in which fathers explain to their sons advice that is vital in real life. The advice I would give to my son would be to avoid trusting every man, not letting life take you down, obeying parents, fearing the Lord, shunning evil and to keep your…

caring for their children no matter what they go though. These poems show the morals that the mothers try to pass on to their sons to succeed in life. Both of them are pretty strict and straight forward with their words but try to be kind in a way that their sons would understand what they went through. In the poems, “My Mother” by Robert Mezey and “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughs, there is a direct correlation between the relationship of mother and son, the mother’s ethnicity and personality…

Light in the Forest True Son deserved the sentence his father gave him because of the laws True Son had broken. True son was ungrateful, cruel, and disrespectful in all his choices. These actions make such a sentence of being banned just and not overly harsh. Cuyloga made the right choice in banning True Son for the acts he committed because of disrespect, ungratefulness, and cruelness. True Sons sentence was not just but deserved and there are many reflective reason that prove True Sons…

Falling Hard (Three messages from Son, Sale, and Mash) To begin with these three stories, Devoted Son, No Witchcraft for Sale, and Mashed, they all have one important lesson that is being pushed on to the readers without them actually knowing. In No witchcraft for sale it talks about not taking advantage of what you have and it has thoroughly explained it. “Her works display a broad range of interests and concerns, including racism, communism, feminism, psychology, and mysticism. The major…