Caroline Condon Ms. DeDeo English 9 20 May 2024 Plot Twist: The Alcoholic Father Changes for Good In her novel, Salvage The Bones, Jesmyn Ward utilizes narrative ruthlessness to reveal the characters’ vulnerabilities and strengths. The story, set in rural Mississippi, follows the Batiste family as they navigate the challenges of poverty, love, and survival in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. Through her ruthless depiction of Daddy’s journey, she demonstrates the powerful impact hardship makes on a person as he struggles with the loss of his wife and the obligation he has to his family. Daddy’s journey is marked by deep internal battles that shape his character and foster significant personal growth. In Chapter 4, Daddy reminisces about Mama, recalling “I remember the way she was in bed, how she liked her tea, how she laughed” underscoring his enduring love for her and the devastation of her absence in his life (72). …show more content…
In Chapter 6, Daddy reflects yet again on the loss of Mama, stating, “Sometimes I miss her so much, I can’t breathe” illustrating the depths of his grief and the emotional toll it takes on him (89). His experiences are unimaginable for some, but catalyze his growth, forcing him to confront his pain and weaknesses in a very raw manner that allows readers to connect and sympathize with Daddy on a deeper level. By enduring these struggles, Daddy emerges as a stronger, more empathetic individual. Daddy’s relationship with his children is rocky, yet his experiences with them also contribute to his growth. In Chapter 10, he looks back on his role as a father, admitting, “I ain't always been a good daddy” (156). This acknowledgment highlights his self-awareness and willingness to confront his
No matter what actions or words a mother chooses, to a child his or her mother is on the highest pedestal. A mother is very important to a child because of the nourishing and love the child receives from his or her mother but not every child experiences the mother’s love or even having a mother. Bragg’s mother was something out of the ordinary because of all that she did for her children growing up, but no one is perfect in this world. Bragg’s mother’s flaw was always taking back her drunken husband and thinking that he could have changed since the last time he...
While most of us think back to memories of our childhood and our relationships with our parents, we all have what he would call defining moments in our views of motherhood or fatherhood. It is clearly evident that both Theodore Roethke and Robert Hayden have much to say about the roles of fathers in their two poems as well. While the relationships with their fathers differ somewhat, both men are thinking back to a defining moment in their childhood and remembering it with a poem. "My Papa's Waltz" and "Those Winter Sundays" both give the reader a snapshot view of one defining moment in their childhood, and these moments speak about the way these children view their fathers. Told now years later, they understand even more about these moments.
As Rob’s Dad gets to hear everything that Rob was trying to hold in, from the loss of his Mom. His Dad understands and has the same problem holding back his emotions of the loss of his wife, and how it impacts Robs
Family is a strong bond that cannot be broken. In the “Key to My Father”, by Harlen Coban, the main character developes a mental picture of his father being unhip, unfit, and does what he can to provide to his family. Marc sees his father as a hardworking man that believes family comes first, but realizes that his father is unhappy. Marc seeks for clues in which he trys to find evidence to develop emotions toward his father by being proud, curious, and sad toward him.
A child’s destiny crucially and heavily relies on the parental figures in their lives. Without such beacons of authority children in these broken homes easily feel partial, mislaid and typically turn out to be errant. The novel “Father Cry” by William Wilson, beautifully covers both the ideas of spiritual parental figures and physical parental figures. Analyzing several different subjects such as heartbreak, love, hope and many more, this book is able to holistically cover the general subject of parenthood. This is an amazing book with many things that one can learn from. Many ideas and topics in this book opened my eyes, pushing me to the verge of tears in some parts. That being said, one subject in particular that most impacted me was the
Analyzing “How to Read Literature like a Professor” is easy, but on the other hand, to analyze “The Bonesetter’s Daughter” is a consuming task. The difficulty doesn’t lie in the grammar or the structure, but in employing the skills employed by Foster’s book. An unskilled reader would assume that Amy Tan’s novel: The Bonesetter’s Daughter, is just another novel written for entertainment purposes. To an untrained reader, there seems to be no author’s intent to use literary devices that would contextualize the deeper meaning that is usually found in fiction, mythology, and folklore. Instead the novel would seem nothing more than entertainment, but for a reader that isn’t just reading but also searching through the text for the literary devices
Over the summer, after taking a break from reading a novel just for entertainment, I sat down to read How to Read Literature like a Professor and it was the exact novel to refresh and supplement my dusty analysis skills. After reading and applying Foster’s novel, How to Read Literature like a Professor, towards The Bonesetter’s Daughter I found a previously elusive and individualized insight towards literature. Although, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is full of cryptic messages and a theme that is universal, I was able to implement an individual perspective on comprehending the novel’s universal literary devices, and coming upon the unique inference that Precious Auntie is the main protagonist of the novel.
A father can play many roles throughout a child’s life: a caregiver, friend, supporter, coach, protector, provider, companion, and so much more. In many situations, a father takes part in a very active position when it comes to being a positive role model who contributes to the overall well-being of the child. Such is the case for the father in the poem “Those Winter Sundays” by Robert Hayden. In this poem, readers are shown the discreet ways in which a father can love his child. On the other hand, there are also many unfortunate situations where the fathers of children are absent, or fail to treat the children with the love and respect that they undoubtedly deserve. In the contrasting poem “Like Riding a Bicycle” by George Bilgere, readers are shown how a son who was mistreated by his drunken father is affected by their past relationship many years later. Although both of these poems have fairly similar themes and literary techniques, they each focus on contradicting situations based on the various roles a father can play in a child’s life.
“Tiny, Smiling Daddy” opens with “one of those pure, beautiful dreams in which he was young again, and filled with realization that the friends who had died, or gone away, or decided that they didn’t like him anymore, had really been there all along, loving him” (Gaitskill 305), and through this nostalgic state the father’s reaveled as a character who ha...
Caroline Condon Ms. DeDeo English 9 20 May 2024 Lil’ Tike Trauma In Jesmyn Ward’s novel, Salvage The Bones, the narrative strategy of ruthlessness is used to unveil the inner world of the characters, exposing their vulnerabilities and strengths. Set in rural Mississippi, the story follows the Batiste family as they navigate the challenges of poverty, love, and survival in the days leading up to Hurricane Katrina. Ward’s depiction of 7-year-old Junior, the youngest of the Batiste family, reflects the profound impact of hardship on someone at such a young age. Being the youngest in the family, Junior is desperate to be included in his siblings’ lives, despite their large age gap.
Nonetheless, this really is a tale of compelling love between the boy and his father. The actions of the boy throughout the story indicate that he really does love his father and seems very torn between his mother expectations and his father’s light heartedness. Many adults and children know this family circumstance so well that one can easily see the characters’ identities without the author even giving the boy and his father a name. Even without other surrounding verification of their lives, the plot, characters, and narrative have meshed together quite well.
The significance of the father’s story and “Coming Home Again” is to show the growing disconnection between a son and a mother. All the mother wants is for her son to be more successful than she is, even if she occasionally regrets sending him away to school. Consequently, the son becomes impatient and distant—as most teenagers do—until he matures into an adult and begins to regret the negative attitude he once held towards his mother. Unfortunately, his mother’s early death caused remorse for his negative attitude towards her as a teenager. Nonetheless, he remains connected with her after her cancer-related death through cooking, in which he finds himself cooking the exact way she would.
The relationship between a father and his son can be articulated as without a doubt the most significant relationship that a man can have throughout the duration of his life. To a further extent the relationship between a father and a son can be more than just a simple companionship. Just like a clown fish and a sea anemone, both father and son will rely on each other in order to survive the struggles of their everyday lives. Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Gabriele Muccino’s The Pursuit of Happyness both depict a story between a father and son using each other as a means of survival when faced with adversity. When placed in a tough situation father and son must create a symbiotic relationship in order to survive. Upon the duo of father and son can creating a symbiotic relationship, it will result in a mutual dependency on each other. This theme of paternal love is omnipresent given the bond between the two characters.
The afternoon was slowly fading into the evening and I had gone the whole day without the figure of my aspiration, my father. I impatiently paced the floor in front of the door like a stalking cat waiting to pounce on its prey. The thoughts of wrestling my father and hear those words of affirmation, “You got me! Mercy! I give up!” filled my head. My father was obviously faking it but there was something about his words that have such power over a young boys life. Mothers are sources of comfort and safety for a young boy but it is the father that defines the identity of a young boy, the father bestows manhood on the boy.
Anton Chigurh the relentless hit man is another example of how fate is embodied into the film. Throughout the film Chigurh is referred to as crazy, psychopath and looked on by others in confusion and fear. Chigurh’s character throughout the film acts as if he is a spokesman for a demised fate. An example of Anton Chigurh and his approach to playing death and bringer of fate is when he stops in at a store and has an encounter with the store clerk. Anton Chigurh flips a coin in front of the store clerk and proceeds to ask the clerk to call whether the coin has landed heads or tails. The clerk confused tells chigruh that he has put nothing up to make a bet on a toss and then refuses to make a call on the coin. Chigurh responds to the clerk saying