Sons and Lovers

“Homage to Buck Cline,” a coming of age poem. Within the poem the reader sees how the young narrator relates to both Buck Cline and his father and grows to respect them both. The narrator and his father’s relationship is like most normal father son relationships. In homage to buck cline the over masculine police officer buck cline lets young David bottoms go without a ticket. The poem reads, “How many stars in your crown? One certainly for the night you spared me for my father…” (31). This…

In “The Scarlet Ibis,” James Hurst uses Doodle’s interior conflict to communicate that it is not what other people push you to become, it is your choice to believe in yourself, and slowly progress from anything that is holding you back. In the middle of the story, when the narrator tries to teach Doodle to walk, Doodle makes a makes commentary like, “I can’t walk,” “ I just can’t do it” (6). Doodle did not believe that he could walk. After hearing his parents and the doctors tell him that he…

One might say the main focus of The Chosen, by Chaim Potok, deals with the friendship between Reuven Malter and Danny Saunders. Early in the book, Reuven’s father observes the adversarial relationship between the two boys and tells his son that it would benefit both youths if Reuven tried to cultivate a friendship with Danny. Quickly the tone of the friendship manifests itself as a tone of mutual self-improvement. Reuven and Danny provide outlets for the other’s feelings, thoughts, and…

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…

He punched Carlos in the face and wanted him to go. In my opinion, no matter who Carlos is or what did he do, Carlos is still his son. He can stay mad at Carlos but push Carlos away just because he is gay is not a right thing. Author put Carlos in a situation that he is a good man but just because he is gay so his family left him because that is so embarrassed his family. Same thing…

isn’t able to do himself: be good at sports, take advantage of being good looking, get far in life, get rich quick, and enjoy the American Dream. Willy pushes his sons away by only focusing on the good his sons did when they were young, which gives his children no space to talk to him. The problem with Willy is that he’s made his sons into a project, so that he can live through them after he’s…

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…

They were like any other family. The Miller Family had just bought a new 1.5 million dollar home in New Jersey; it was their dream home. David Miller was a surgeon at the Saint Barnabas Medical Center, his wife Mindy was a stay at home mom and they had one twelve-year-old boy named Thomas. Every day the Millers had the same routine: David woke up early and prepared breakfast for the family, eggs and ham for Thomas and oatmeal for his beloved wife. They discussed family matters over breakfast…

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…

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…