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As most parents would said, their goal in life is to one, be an influential person and two, make an impact on their child's life. They have already lived the life their children are going through and want them to have a better life than they did. To make an impact, they try to mold them(their children) into sharing the same beliefs and values that have made them who they are today. I found these same things to be true in reading Lord Chesterfield's letter to his son. Throughout this letter, Lord Chesterfield reveals his own personal values and struggles in order to pass it on to his son through the use of figurative language, irony, metaphors, parallel syntax and rhetorical questions. In the beginning of the letter, Chesterfield starts off by establishing a position, on giving his advice. “Though I employ so much of my time in writing to you, I confess I have often my doubts whether it is to any purpose”.(Chesterfield, Lines 1-3) This implies that he understands that whatever he is going to say, may not be even use however …show more content…
he wants his to son to at least be considerate. He then continues on by saying to his son not to look at him a a parent but as a friends, only whose only purpose is to advise. Lord Chesterfield then emphasizes the importance/value of experience by using a metaphor. He is compares the obstacles he faced in his lifetime to, “thorns and briars.”(Chesterfield, Lines 23-24) The main goal of using this metaphor was to help his son understand what he is telling him and why. He has gone down this path before and like stubbing your finger on a thorn or walking through a patch of briars, it can be painful. Lord Chesterfield is given him a fair warning, letting him know, if you don’t choose to acknowledge what I’m saying, you may end up going through something that could’ve been easily avoided. In the middle of line 25, there is a shift of tone. Before this shift, the tone was sympathetic. He only wants his son to have the brightest future and hopes that he will consider what he is saying. Yet, after line 25, Lord Chesterfield tone shifts and he becomes more blunt/straightforward. In order to achieve this shift in tone, the author uses irony. “I do not, therefore, so much as hint to you, how absolutely dependent you are upon me.”, “I am convinced that you will act right, upon more noble and generous principles: I mean for the sake of doing right, and out of affection and gratitude to me.”(Chesterfield, Lines 25-34) The author reminds his son that as his supporter/benefactor(Father), he can, at any time, choose to stop supporting him should his son fail to listen and take into account of what he is saying. Which shows the author values respect. Yet later on he states that, although I am questioning you, I know you do right by me. In the last paragraph, the author use gives his last and final piece of advice to his son “ I have so often recommended to you attention and application to whatever you learn.” (Chesterfield, Lines 35-36)By doing so, it showed the Lord Chesterfield, his father, values commitment, hinting that it was something very important in his life.
He then continues on my using rhetorical questions to stress the importance of achieving excellence. “For can there be a greater pleasure than to be universally allowed to excel those of one's own age and manner of life? And, consequently. Can there be anything more mortifying than to be excelled by them?” (Chesterfield, Lines 39-43)As the passage continues on, Chesterfield warns his son of consequences he could face from doing things halfway. He also reminds his son that because he is someone who was born with many opportunities, failure to work hard would bring shame not only to him but his father as
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The chapter “A Fathers Influence” is constructed with several techniques including selection of detail, choice of language, characterization, structure and writers point of view to reveal Blackburn’s values of social acceptance, parenting, family love, and a father’s influence. Consequently revealing her attitude that a child’s upbringing and there parents influence alter the characterization of a child significantly.
The narrator wanted to be all he could be and strived to become the best
...ll wants and desires often results in a future filled with deep sadness. However, children do not degenerate by themselves; rather they are not spoiled till those of influential stature in the eyes of the children sink in to the corruption of favoritism. Even though times have changed, this corruption present in “Why I Live at the P.O” is analogous to what favoritism is today. In the modern world, partiality towards a certain child usually comes from strong feelings of love that bury themselves in an prominent figure’s mind and subconsciously spoil the child. This irony, that amplified love actually causes one to suffer later in life, depicts the broader issue that by getting one used to an imaginary life where all desires are fulfilled, he or she cannot accept the fact of human nature that, outside the household, people are indifferent to another person’s wishes.
Everyone wants to fill the void within themselves, and most humans try to accomplish this by finding jobs they enjoy, but it seems that most of them ultimately fail. When you are younger you look to your parents to show you the way, but as you approach adulthood you start to feel more of a sense of rebellion toward them instead of the admiration you once had. The writer makes the poem universal by saying he didn’t want to end up like his father, something most children in north america could relate to. It’s also easily linked to our society in north america because of the way our schooling system is set up, in a way that you must commit to what you’re going to do for the rest of your life when you’re still too young to vote, and our system being this way makes it easy to end up regretting what you choose. Humans in modern society are expected to make many commitments for a range of things- relationships or sports teams, even major life decisions, and it’s obvious that our natural need for commitment is prevalent in our everyday life. Consequently, this need for making commitments can end up leaving people making poor decisions or at least taking a route you’ll end up wanting to renounce in the
Gladwell demonstrates that hard work does not get people to high places but a series of opportunities and other factors will. What people have grown up to think about hard work is not true and it is demonstrated through these various examples. People will not be able to succeed, practice, and master their skills without opportunities, timing, devotion, and moral support. There is no such thing as “rags to riches” because those people would not be rich unless they had opportunities in their life. Remember that with out these key factors, people will never be able to succeed.
Hawthorne manages to create many metaphors within his novel The Scarlet Letter. The rose bush outside the prison door, the black man, and the scaffold are three metaphors. Perhaps the most important metaphor would be the scaffold, which plays a great role throughout the entire story. The three scaffold scenes which Hawthorne incorporated into The Scarlet Letter contain a great deal of significance and importance the plot. Each scene brings a different aspect of the main characters, the crowd or more minor characters, and what truth or punishment is being brought forth.
...ts set for them. Children are constantly aware of adults’ choices, and they begin to formulate their own understanding of general values at a young age. When adults are hypocritical of their pre-set standards, it sends children into a state of discombobulation. Staying true to one’s values as an example for children will be beneficial to them as they travel along the highway of childhood and come upon the exit necessary to reach the interstate of adulthood.
Midas almost died because of his crazy wish. Therefore, there will always be problems with shortcuts to success, so it has to be worked for. In addition, working for success relates back to modern day, because it is not as easy to achieve success as we think. G.K. Chesterton the author of the “Fallacy of Success” explains how “Books of Success” are full of lies that do not teach you how to be successful but instead teach you how to be snobbish. Furthermore, Chesterton goes on describe “In our society, temperance will not help a poor man to enrich himself, but it may help him to respect himself. Good work will not make him a rich man, but good work may make him a good workman.” To sum it up, nowadays, demeanor cannot give a poor man money or education, but can give him value in society. Just because he works hard it doesn’t mean that he will become rich ,but he will be a great workman. (Paragraph 11,
To begin with, Holden’s love for the innocence and purity of childhood makes him very hesitant to transition into an adult life. Generally, he finds children to be straightforward, easygoing, and simply pure in every way. This is because they always say what they mean, and never try to set a false façade for...
An example of this is examined in Bettelheim’s article as well, stating a parents perspective of the occurrence saying “One day when she was asked to fetch some salt she said as he was doing so, ‘Why do you treat me like Cinderella?’”(pg282) Along with feeling as though they have the right to disobey, comes a correlation with freedom they see their parents express. Drawing upon instances from fellow students, the correspondence can be seen today. Many times parents come home only to express their distaste with something their boss, coworkers, or political figure did, intending their disapproval to be heard for the ears of their spouse. Although these cases of expressing distant seem to only directly influence those is the workforces they describe, such aspects impact the children of said parents as well. Unknowingly to the parents, children pick up and follow in the footsteps of their parents as much so as with the Cindrella story. In a desire to please them they often attempt to become like them, implementing the disrespect their parents have for their authority figures into their very own lives. Sometimes this is can be reflected back on to their teachers, which can be seen as a child “is gradually subjected to even more critical attitudes as he is being
The relationship between a father and his son is an important theme in Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, as it relates to the two main characters of the play, Prince Hal and Hotspur. These two characters, considered as youths and future rulers to the reader, are exposed to father-figures whose actions will influence their actions in later years. Both characters have two such father-figures; Henry IV and Falstaff for Prince Hal, and the Earl of Northumberland and the Earl of Worcester for Hotspur. Both father-figures for Hal and Hotspur have obvious good and bad connotations in their influence on the character. For example, Falstaff, in his drinking and reveling, is clearly a poor influence for a future ruler such as Prince Hal, and Worcester, who shares Hotspur's temper, encourages Hotspur to make rash decisions. The entire plot of the play is based on which father-figure these characters choose to follow: had they chosen the other, the outcome would have been wholly different.
How one is parented during their life can easily relate to “cause and effect.” Retrospectively, how one was raised will, sooner or later, influence their actions and decisions. For example, if someone were to be raised in a disrespectful way, it is likely of that one to live a disrespectful life; cause is that you were raised poorly which results in the effect of living out a poor-mannered life. In Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird”, a theme of parenting is evident in three characters: Bob Ewell, Calpurnia and Atticus Finch.
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He was a minister so he knew what to say and how to say it to attract an audience. This letter was written as a response to the clergymen, but it reached various type of audiences. In the beginning of the letter, King he addresses that the letter is a response to the clergymen. Throughout the letter, he keeps a steady tone, representing a calm expression of strong sentiments against the unjust treatment him and his people have been suffering for years and the need to for it to end. He uses ethos in this beginning paragraph to draw in the clergy men by treating them in an authoritative manner. Rather than attack them, like they attacked his character, he respectfully addressed them: “But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable
Having inherited the myth of ugliness and unworthiness, the characters throughout the story, with the exception of the MacTeer family, will not only allow this to happen, but will instill this in their children to be passed on to the next generation. Beauty precedes love, the grownups seem to say, and only a few possess beauty, so they remain unloved and unworthy. Throughout the novel, the convictions of sons and daughters are the same as their fathers and mothers. Their failures and accomplishments are transferred to their children and to future generations.