Son

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…

passes away it leaves the kids asking, “Who was my father?” or “Did he care about me?” The third kind of dad is the strategic dad, he plans his actions and words out. His intentional actions are calculated in order to form a relationship to where his son, in…

A father’s love for his son is not always seen. In the poem, “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden, the narrator is talking about how he regrets not realizing and thanking his father for all the suffering and good that his father has done for him. The author uses imagery and diction to portray a better image about the narrator's regret for not noticing his father’s good deeds sooner. One of the more commonly used literary element in the poem “Those Winter Sundays” is imagery. The author uses…

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…

35:10) Anyhow, Israel became the father of ten sons. Then in his old age, a son, Joseph was born to his wife, Rachel. Joseph was Israel’s favorite son. Benjamin was born later, giving him a total of twelve sons. Perhaps it was because Joseph was the son of his old age, but more than likely it was because he was the son of Rachel, that Jacob loved Joseph in a special way.(Genesis 37:3) This, of course, doesn’t mean that he didn’t love his other sons. Had he not cared about them, he would…

story in which Edwidge Danticat the author, present the struggling of a man who wants to provaid to his family and accomplish his dreams to a better life for himself with his wife and son, in the short story we are introduced to the main characters Guy is the father and Lili his wife, the last character is the son which is refer to as the little Guy. From the Marxist theory the story is about the class differences in which Guy is searching for a meaning to his life amidst economic turmoil of…

girls. A mother’s son might feel as though it’s unfair to him, but he doesn’t understand that he actually has it easy compared to a girl and parents.Boys would feel like they have it harder with their parents because “In short, girls tend to get more of their parents’ affection, attention and protection while boys tend to be taught to not need some and to “man up”” (NYT Takes On). Parents may give more attention or affection to their daughters because they think that their sons can handle things…

ends up in another town of people and she meets a new family. While staying with this new family at first, she stays hesitant to open up to them of the events that preceded her arrival. Ana chooses not to speak, but a bond does begin to form with the son of the family named Damir, who ends up being a part of a resistance group. Ana seeks her innocence within this new setting. She begins by heading to the resistance group’s hangout and also slowly gets comfortable with the new family. However,…

Walter’s stories, “Please” and “We Live in Water” from a book of the same name We Live in Water. In “Please” the son in the story lives with his mom, Carla, and her druggie boyfriend, Jeff in an environment where drugs come first. Tommy, the absentee father, has little control regarding the safety of his child. In “We Live in Water”, it is the father Oren’s moral corruption that places his son Michael in harm’s way. While the each father’s story is different, their intentions are the same,…

In Death of a Salesman by, Arthur Miller, Willy has a desire to be a good father to his son were his dad was not. Willy believes that if he can instill the correct values into Biff so he can be like himself or more successful. The problem Willy is confronted with is that he cares too much as if he is trying to emulate his life in Biffs. Compared to Willy Charley takes a position of hands off while still teaching Bernard to be a good student and by working hard because it will pay dividends later…