Family is one of the most important things in people's lives. No matter how much love or hate one feels about them, their genes are still yours. There will always be a part of them that can influence and reside in you. The father in "Wordsmith" and Sam Sing in "The Gold Mountain Coat" are prime examples of how different families can be. The father is loving whereas Sam Sing is apathetic. The father in "Wordsmith" loves his daughter. The lines, "... filling in all the empty crevices / with the words he didn't know how to say" shows that he doesn't know how to outwardly vocalize his feelings to his daughter. Instead, he implies it with the care he puts into fixing the house. The line, "my fifty eight year old house a perfect sentence" shows …show more content…
The story states that he is well into his seventies, meaning he has to rely on his boys to run the business with him. Although it says the whole family runs the restaurant, the sons likely do not see much of a profit. If they did, they would have likely each bought their own jackets already rather than depend on a reluctant father. Their father does not even care enough to consider jackets for both his sons are necessary for the winter weather. Sam Sing also shows how disinterested he must be if he is not the first person John goes to when he receives letters. Instead, John goes to the author's family first. This only serves to emphasize how cold the father must be to warrant being second-best to his neighbouring business. It also showcases the brothers's estranged relationship with their father by presenting their fears of conversations with him. It is daunting to the two sons, which leads them planning out the discussion to even initiate it. This does not typically happen to the average household, especially if both men are grown adults. Sam Sing's family is clearly separate from one another, and it shows the indirect
In the poem ¨My Father¨ by Scott Hightower, the author describes a rather unstable relationship with his now deceased father. Scott describes his father as a mix of both amazing and atrocious traits. The father is described as someone who constantly contradicts himself through his actions. He is never in between but either loving and heroic or cold and passive. The relationship between Scott and his father is shown to be always changing depending on the father’s mood towards him. He sees his father as the reason he now does certain things he finds bad. But at the end of it all, he owes a great deal to his father. Scott expresses that despite his flaws, his father helped shape the man he is today. Hightower uses certain diction, style, and imagery to
Sone describes the relationships she had with her parents and siblings. She seems very pleased with and delighted by the differing, yet caring personalities of each person in her family.
Family can help to build different character traits or it can help to better people. Family is also something that can be relied upon to help with different problems. Many times families and family members will teach a lesson that can be used later in life to help with varied situations. The people that are in the non-fiction literature all have one thing in common: they faced a problem, and were able to overcome it with the help of their family. With the help of family, people can better themselves and the people around them, by using the lessons their family has taught them.
A family either plays a positive role in one’s life leading to their success, or a negative role leading to failure. The love and concern from a family is very important in determining the prosperity in life of its members, and without this support, a person will only face adversity. In Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald, the Piper family, primarily the father, is responsible for the sorrowful life of the Piper daughters. The disappointment in life of Frances, Kathleen and Mercedes is due to lack of love and nurture, inadequate parenting and over protectiveness.
A family can be classified as one of many things. It can be a group of people living under one roof; a group of people of common ancestry; or even a unit of a crime syndicate like the Mafia (Merriam Webster). But to Holden Caulfield, the main character of J.D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher In The Rye, his family was what we as a society normally think of when that word is spoken. There are always variations on a theme, but a typical family consists of two parents and at least one child. During the 1950’s when the novel is set, adoption was virtually unheard of and divorce could be considered a sin where as today these are common practices. But one thing about family that has prevailed through the decades is the family’s affect on a person’s existence. The way a person interacts with their family can affect them for the rest of their lives. And the way a family interacts with a specific person can affect that person for the rest of their life. It is a two way relationship which is often complicated and confusing, especially to Holden.
It seems odd that an only child, from an intact family, would have the insight to write so detailed about the feelings of loss and a blended family. When asked “Do you think a family means a mother, and a father, and a child? Surprisingly, MacLachlan replied, “No, I don’t think that. And I never had.” MacLachlan went through a time when her own mother had Alzheimer’s disease and was losing her memory. MacLachlan stated, “In a sense, she was leaving me, though not because she wanted to. (Author Information; teachers@ran-dom.com) Her characters Anna and Caleb feel that same sense of loss as they remember their mother and learn to accept Sarah. MacLachlan felt there were extended people who became your “kind of; parents. For a lot of children she was their mother/grandmother surrogate. We (MacLachlan’s family) are very strongly connected, my children, myself and even my nieces and nephews. What I am most concerned about is who we are as family and how we effect each other. I didn’t have brothers or sisters, and this may be where it came from”. (“Author Information” teachers@-random.com). It is now easier to see how Anna and Caleb are so willing to take Sarah into their own family. The characters in the book don’t cling to who was a part of their original family, but instead like MacLachlan, focus on how each character effects each other.
Have you ever stopped and thought about what everybody in the world has in common? Family is a very common thing. It could just be a group of people that you care about and love or it could just be a person. Family is always together and family never falls apart. Family is that one group that you love and worry about and it can be that one person. In the book The Outsiders by S.E Hinton family is a very important thing. Family is the best blessing to have. The theme S.E Hinton talks about is family always sticks together.
And choose wrong?” (P.98). From reading this, I feel that the community was able to control problems such as divorce, rape, teen pregnancy, and AIDS. They all are given a life that is predictable, orderly and painless. Mostly, they have no memory or experience. In reality, we learn from our mistakes to be better each day. Experience is the best teacher in the world; unless one goes through sorrow, he or she will never know how it feels. “Warmth, Jonas replied and happiness. And let me think. Family, that it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And something else I can’t get the word for it. Jonas hesitated; I certainly liked the memory, though. I couldn’t quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, The Giver told him the feeling that was so strong in the room is love” (P.125). Family in the novel is described as a group of people that have a unit or bond that they share each day together.
As I grow up, I comprehend how much I can relate to the movie Parenthood. Although it 's not an exact replication of the movie I still have many instances that I can apply to my family. My family’s life is definitely the roller coaster because we have times of tremendous happiness, but also times where we struggle and find it burdensome to love one another. I don’t only have hardships in my regular family, but also in my extended family. For example, my uncle Victor did not mature as much as the rest of my father’s brothers. He didn’t go to college and has had complications with gambling, and struggles with keeping a steady job. This can relate to Larry Buckman because he was under some of the same circumstances and asked his parents for money.
Families are there to build each other up and help prepare each other for the future. “Family is the single most important influence in a child's life”(Smart Beginnings). Family names and individual names show personality and individuality. Treating people like they are just another number makes it easier for them to give up on themselves; and eventually take their own life. In an article published in 2009 Jim Connolly expresses, “These people have feelings. They have good days and bad days. They have ups and downs. They have days where they want to cry with joy and days where they cry with sorrow. These unique, immeasurably valuable individuals are many things to many people, but they are NOT numbers”(Connolly). In Anthem, Ayn Rand exaggerates the use of communism by identifying characters with numbers carelessly chosen by the government. explains, ¨Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on our iron bracelet which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it¨(Anthem
Sam displays his love for Mary, and his interest to start a clothing store. He is also shocked to hear that his boss, Charles, will not be inheriting any properties from his uncle, and his dreams of being a worker there are crushed.
The reason for this is because in the story, Sam was staying at his father’s house and while he was there, his mother called several times to know how to cook a lemon-chicken recipe. However, Sam was trying to avoid talking his mother because he told her not to call as he was visiting his father. Also, he mentioned that he will talk to his mother about the letter once he comes back home.The letter was about him wanting his father to get custody over him and also mentioned that he is not trying to hurt her. Furthermore, while Phyllis and Sandra were going back and forth on the phone for a short period, Sandra called again but this time Sam picked up the phone instead. Over the phone, Sandra began to yell at Sam because she got into a little argument with Phyllis which wouldn’t of had happened if Sam picked up the phone. In quote, Sandra said “ You little bastard! Don’t bother coming home. If I never see you again I’ll die happy!” (Schwartz, pg. 83) This quote shows the negative words that Sandra would exchange towards Sam in their relationship. Sam attempts to get away from his mother shows that the relationship is unstable because of the lifestyle his mother lives. He doesn’t like the fact that he lives in a apartment with his mom that treats him poorly because he never does anything wrong. Sam isn’t a bad child who disrespects her all the time. Later in the story, Sam discusses living with his mother in her apartment and he says, “Everything! The cooking, the cleaning, the shouting. Everything!” (Schwartz, pg. 87) In this quote, we can see that in the relationship, Sam holds a lot of responsibility when it comes to taking care of the house because his mom relies on him to cook dinner and clean the house. This is important because it
To begin talking about how family shapes a person, it’s important to focus on Perry Smith. Smith is the only person who is shaped negatively by his family. Smith’s mother, Flo, is the first family member that negatively impacts Smith’s childhood by abandoning him. In the novel, Smith states, “it was not long afterward my mother put me to stay in a Catholic orphanage” (93). He says this after expressing to his mother he wants to live with his father, Tex. In that orphanage Smith got abused by the nuns, which only aggravates Smith and his mother’s relationship. Smith is angry and resents his mother, and the relationship with his father is not much healthier. His father makes Smith drop out of school, and becomes upset about dropping out because Smith wants to learn, but is not allowed that privilege (277). Smith is a very intelligent man, but is not permitted to reach his full potential; therefore not able to receive a well-paying job and the respect he imagines that he deserves. Smit...
My extended family tends to be insanely different from my immediate family. Comparable to the movie, “Parenthood,” my family has a variety of distinct types of parents and children as a result of the parents’ methods. The way parents treat their kids can mold their personality. They can either reflect how their parents treated them, or act like the complete antithesis of their parents. The storyline in “Parenthood,” and the story of my family’s life are quite alike.
When the word “family” is discussed most people think of mothers, fathers, and other siblings. Some people think of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and even cousins and more on the pedigree tree. Without family in people 's lives they would not be the same people that they grew up to be today and in the future. When people hear the word family they think about, the ones who will help them in any way they can whether it 's money, support, advice, or anything to help them succeed in life. Family will forever be the backbone of support. They are the ones who support their children during those life decisions. Family is not always blood related. Finally family is forever, family will never go away.