...“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it.” - Clarence kelland To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is a book about a small Alabama family in a small town called Maycomb county. It's about the adventure and trouble that Jem and scout Finch get into and about the struggle with racism in the south. Atticus is a hoest kind man and a great father because how he defends everyone and stick up for blacks even against angry racist white mob. There are many good examples Atticus being a good kind person and sticking up for everyone no matter there skin color. One solid example of this is when Harper Lee write “anything fit to say at the dinner table is fit to say it in front of Calpurnia . She knows what she means to...
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...A good father is supposed love his child unconditionally, right? That is what people generally expect from their father. Good fathers are supposed to love their children forever, no matter what, and never leave them. Unfortunately, in the play, Romeo and Juliet, that is not the case. Lord Capulet, Juliet’s father, was a very good father in the beginning of the play, however, in the end, he became very rude and over controlling. In the beginning of the play, Lord Capulet is what a good father should be. He is very caring and considerate of her. When Paris asks him if he can ask Juliet to marry him, Capulet thought about the needs of Juliet, and also believed that Juliet was far too young to be getting married. “By saying o’er what I have said before: My child is yet a stranger in the world, she hath not seen the change of fourteen years, let two more summers wither in their pride ere we...
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...relationship between father and son could be described as loving or hated. However in the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy, it is put into a completely different situation. The father and son of The Road are surviving for each other. From a post apocalyptic setting they are trying to reach the south. The father and son of The Road are left with no names, which makes it more mysterious. Within the book the father often times lies to the son about certain things. For the good of the son and humanity, it is a good choice to tell his son what is for the better. The better of things could be for the son’s future. The father and son go through a long journey to the south. The father believes that the south should be an easier place to be for the father and son to survive the deadly cold winter. The story tells of the father constantly telling himself that his son is the best thing that has happened and that he is the only light left in his life. They have to try to avoid many obstacles like those trying to steal their belongings or others trying to kidnap them to eat them. The father always seems to believe there is nothing left of his life except to keep his son safe and as happy as he can be. In parts of the book the son asks the father about their life. His son would ask if he would die what would the father do? The father easily answers that he would die also to be with his son. The father lives only for his son and would be willing to do anything for him. The father tells the son...
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...Realistic & Complicated ''Daddy Dozens'' by Jamila Woods is about a father who's a doctor and doesn't spend time with his family because he's always working. "Step Father" by Emanuel Xavier is about a father and son who don't have a good relationship. Their relationship has a lot of pain and sadness. The father was mentally and physically abusive towards his son. The son is gay and wants his father to love and accept him for who he is. The father gets old and starts forgetting his memory. The son in the end forgives for his father for everything him put him through and provides love and care for his father. Even though these poems seem very different they very much a like....
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...The Fathers We grow up in life living the social norm of having a mom and dad in our lives. Whether they stay married or end up divorcing, the majority of us have a mother and a father in our life. It seems to be our human nature to search for that figure we are missing in our life if we don’t have one of our own. In the memoir The Mountains and the Fathers by Joe Wilkins, we follow a boy search for a father figure he so desperately wants to find. He develops many father figures throughout the memoir, some are good figures and others are bad. In the end he still learns valuable lessons from each one, shaping him into the man he becomes by the end of his memoir. As it might seem apparent, the man that is considered the good figure in the memoir didn’t share all the lessons Wilkins would learn throughout his story. He would learn a lot from both the good and the bad and attempt to fill the void he formed when his father passed away. A figure that begins to take a big role I thought would be Wilkins grandfather. After his father died he had his mother to raise him which was hard at times. Wilkins would spend a lot of long hard days working with his grandfather on the farm learning how to ranch. His grandfather would teach him lessons that at the time might not have hit Wilkin as much as it did when he got older and could better understand what seemed as senseless things at the time, really meant. Wilkins would look to his grandfather to fill that father figure...
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...takes up father and son relationship. The father takes his son out on a trip to pass on their knowledge about how to conquer Mother Nature. But more important on that trip is, that it binds the father and the son together, and that is exactly what the father wishes to obtain. Through a third person narrator, the reader is presented to a father and his son. The father is pretending in the short story as a father who has a hard time in life after a divorce from his wife. Because of the divorce the father is now determined to find something that matters, and he wants a strong and sound relationship to his son, I don’t think the father have anything else in his life since the wife divorced him, and therefore he wants a good relationship with his son, so he wont lose him as well. It seems like it was the mother who wants the divorce, and it seems like the father has done something wrong which not could be forgiven “When he looked at her she shook her head and looked away and at that moment he thought, maybe – maybe he could make this right” and in that moment the father gets this idea that the son and him can bond trough male things, he wants to do things that the boy cannot do with his mother, by choosing something he did with his own father. Sometimes we gets glimpse of the things the father is struggled with, “He hadn’t been happy in a while”, that quote tells us that the father has lost the ability to be happy, and when he finally gets happy he does not know why. The father wants...
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...to be true in the future. The Road was published in 2006 and is a national bestseller. It is a novel set in a post-apocalyptic world that is extremely dreary and gray. McCarthy narrates the story of a father and his son in an unknown location after a horrible event has happened. They must attempt to survive in a world where suffering surrounds them. The father and son go into a nation that is overridden by cannibalism and murder. The goal they have is to survive. The Road is extremely repetitive novel. I started the novel with very high expectations and as I continued to read, I came to realization that I did not like it. This book had a decent idea but I did not enjoy the format in which it was written which really made my dislike for the book to develop. A sentence will start out really simple and McCarthy will...
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...What Our Fathers Did was a documentary brought out many different reactions in me. It was unsettling for me to see someone who was so devoted to his father who participated in making sure that the Holocaust was able to happen. A man who Horst Wachter remembers as a loving father, Otto Wachter, who helped fight for the Ukrainians, and could never fully admit that his father was not as evil as he was. In the case of Niklas Frank, who had basically no relationship with his father, Hans Frank, and has only one single good memory with him, he never doubted that his father was innocent or did not deserve to die for his crimes. In the beginning Wachter says how his father was a committed Nazi from the beginning, that made me think he could understand that it was not good of him to be, but when he talks about how it was because his father could not say no and had to join that annoyed me. It angers me when that is the excuse some people give as an excuse...
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...My father’s qualities Who has good qualities affect to you? With me, I have met many people have good qualities, but my father’s good qualities affect to me so much. My father is not the most perfect in the world but the way he lives, and the way he keep in touch with other people teach me a lot. The best his qualities are caring, helpful and fun. First, he is a caring person. This his quality makes people around him so amazing because in my country, most of the men don’t like that. They just go out for work and bring money back. My father work too, but he also take care of his family very well. When I was young, my mother was busy therefore my father fed me up, took a shower, and washed clothes for me. Sometimes, he also sang a song to make me sleep. When I grew up, he gave me a drive to go to school. He also helps my mother cook dinner every night, and he also teaches me to study Math. For specific, the first day I came here, I called for my mother, my voice was change because I cried too much, but lie her that I was sick. However, when I talked with my father, he realized that, he told me to be stronger, he can share everything with me, and I should stop to share. Why he can know that? I also asked this question with him when I was young. He told me because he is a Buddha therefore he can know all things about me, but now I know the real reason. That reason is because he always follows me, take care me, and spend his time to look at me so he can realize all...
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...thousands of years have fathers and sons taking on fishing trips. It is something very classic traditions to do. It creates a closer relationship between father and son. The shot story ”Crossing” is written by Mark Slouka in 2009. The title is crossing. The obvious reason why the title is crossing is because the father and his son have to cross a river. But usually is there always something deeper behind. Crossing can also mean to cross something in your life. You have to cross through hard times in your life. After I have read the story do I think the title crossing, can relate to the death. You are crossing from the earth and into the heaven. The short story is about a father and his son that try to cross a river. The father takes his own son to exactly the same place that he went with his own father back in the days. In the beginning of this story are we introduced with the father and his very difficult period of his life. He always reminds himself about his own childhood. When he was about 17 years old, took his father and him on a trip. He had a bad relationship with his father. His father often speaks hard to him and use swearword when he talk to his son. I think because he had a bad relationship to his own father and he has felt it first-hand. In the text: ““ It didn’t matter. Whatever it was had passed. He and his son would be friends. Nothing mattered more.” That shows us that he only want to be a better father than his own father was for him. The themes...
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...Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas is a poem written for all to hear but specifically for the narrator’s father. Throughout the poem, the narrator asserts that all people should resist death in every way possible even if death has to drag you out of the world, one should put up a fight to live another day and be acrimonious at the thought of being taken from this life. The reader may wonder why the narrator has such hostility towards death and will discover by the end of the poem that the poem is actually a plea from a dying man’s son to gather what strength and mentality he has left to stand up against death and say not today, for his sake as well as the narrator’s. The narrator begins by presenting his father with an example of wise men that fight their impending death with vigor, despite knowing that defeat is inevitable. “Because their words had forked no lightning they/do not go gentle into that good night” (Thomas 5-6); lines five and six tell us that these intelligent people who fight the losing cause against death do so because they haven’t yet made their mark on the world and not even death shall get in their way of doing so. By showing his father his admiration for these wise men, the narrator indicates that he wishes his father to heed their example; to strive toward anything that may give him some purpose besides waiting complacently for death to collect him. Also noticeable in this stanza...
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...Father & Son Father and son love is complicated. Nobody said being a good father was easy. No matter what age your child is or how many children you have, you have to know that a father's work is never done. To be a good father, you have to be present, be a good disciplinarian and role model, and be sympathetic to your children's needs without being a pushover. I will explain the similarities on how the two fathers of the stories were good role models. The bond between a parent and a child is one of the strongest things on this earth. The relationships between father and son in the poems "The Gift" by Li-Young Lee, and the story “Digging“ By Seamus Heaney. In all two genres father and son are the most prominent characters. All have the absence or near absence of mother figures. They also all show how important a father is to his son. Show the importance of father-son relationships through the fathers' involvement in their sons' lives, the fathers teaching their sons life skills, and the fathers' immense love for their sons. Love with admiration, care, demurred, unrestricted, warm, role model and respect. The similarities between the stories “Digging“ By Seamus Heaney, and “The Gift” by Li-young Lee is that the kids have role model fathers. “Digging” describes how a boy looks up to his father and the son observes and writes it down as he is proud of him. in the poem it says “When the spade sinks into gravelly ground. My father digging, I look down”(3-4). It states that the...
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...Father Daniel Mary’s idea for the Carmelite Monks of Wyoming is the establishment of a monastery in a peaceful setting in the Rocky Mountains. Father Mary could make the Monk brotherhood of just 13 monks from a small building into a 496-acre monastery that would hold up to 30 monks. Father Mary’s idea included a Gothic church, and convent for Carmelite nuns, a retreat center for lay visitors, and a hermitage. For such a purchase to be successful, Mystic Monk Coffee, owned and operated by the Carmelites to support the monastery, will have to purchase a new larger 130-pound-per-hour coffee roaster for $35,000 to meet future purchasing demands of their coffee products. Father Mary’s mission for the Wyoming Carmelite’s is to continually grow the monastery by screening and accepting young men between the ages of 19 and 30 years old who are willing to commit their life to the Catholic Church. The monks at the monastery grow and produce high-quality organic Arabica beans, and promote and sell a variety of coffee blends to customers mainly from Catholic parishes. The sale of Mystic Monk’s coffee is essential as it supports the religiously dedicated Carmelite Monks of Wyoming who have promised their life to worship. To achieve his vision, Father Mary’s strategy is to purchase a larger, 130-pound-per-hour roaster so when the demand approaches the current roaster’s capacity, Mystic Monk will be ready to fulfill the customer needs and wants. With higher product capacity, Father...
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...Infield Hit by Thomas J. Dygard is a very good book. The story is about a boy named Hal Stevens whose father played in the Major League Baseball (MLB). Hal’s parents were not together and they were constantly moving to different states. Hal played baseball, but always gets frustrated because everyone expected him to be a power hitter and a good third basemen like his father. Hal didn’t have the strength to follow in his father’s footsteps. Hal eventually got a fresh start but then his father started problems again. After reading Dygard’s story entitled Infield Hit it’s clear that the literary elements characterization, conflict, and theme add drama, excitement, and a better understanding to the story. Characterization is a key element to...
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...For Our Fathers When asked about one’s feelings, people will often give a myriad of different answers. More times than not, those answers will range anywhere from: happy, sad, angry, or somewhere in between. At any one moment, people can have numerous conflicting feelings about the same subject. Li-Young Lee’s poem, “My Father, in Heaven, Is Reading Out Loud,” perfectly demonstrates how the feelings we have for our fathers are complex, not simple. Lee’s complex feelings for his own father are first shown when he explains how “[his] shoulders ached from his [father’s] gaze” (320-21). This statement is one that most people can probably identify with. As children, we have a deep-rooted desire to make our parents proud of us. However, sometimes the pressure on us gets to be too much. This pressure leads to feelings of resentment, as a result of not being good enough. Lee describes his own experience with resentment, which stemmed from him feeling like “a remarkable disappointment to [his father]” (321). Resentment is just one of the many complex feelings we...
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