Roethke is the speaker in the poem and is talking to his father. As he goes through the poem, he talks about the abuse, his mother's reaction, how he could not let go because the man was his father, and how he seems to have mixed feelings about his relationship with him. The author used interesting word choices to make the poem have multiple meanings depending on how someone would interpret it. The first-person speaker and his father have a complex relationship surrounded by an abusive relationship
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Why is it okay for a son to date at 13, but not okay for a daughter to? How is it fair for sons and daughters to have different curfews? Why are boys allowed to go out on school nights but girls aren’t? All these questions come down to parents holding a standard on their kids that implies restrictions and desires held against each child. Parents treat their sons and daughters differently. It’s not that your parents have a favourite child, or that they aren’t proud of who you are, it's that they have
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diagnosed with influenza, a young boy named Schatz believes he is going to die, due to having a 102 degree fever. Too distracted by his impending demise, he can’t pay attention to the story his father is reading him, and appears to be deep in thought. After revealing to his father what is troubling him, his father finds the whole situation humorous, as Schatz was under the impression that he had a 102 degree celsius fever. After some explaining, he allows himself to relax once he realizes his impending
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where the smoke of burning corpses is too often indistinguishable from the bleak horizon. Cuaron’s Theo heads for the coast hoping to find sanctuary. McCarthy’s protagonist, an unnamed father, also heads for the coast hoping that warmer temperatures will be more forgiving to him and his son. Theo and the unnamed father are kindred spirits. Both are just as lost as those they guide but feign competence nonetheless. Both perish at their destination, only for their respective wards, Kee and the unnamed
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Growing up is difficult; everyone can agree on that. It's something that everyone has to go through, but it is needed to become a more emotionally mature adult. The narrator of "Once More to the Lake" realizes how much he has grown up when he takes his son to "a camp on a lake in Maine". The narrator grows up, but everything at the camp is mostly the same. Symbolism of the setting, characterization, and the structure of the story, reveals a theme of growing up is difficult to accept until it happens.
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at the 6pm mass. From the outside, St. Francis Xavier looked like a normal Catholic church. It wasn’t just a free standing square, but you could tell that a lot went into the design, like most Catholic churches. However, once inside, I noticed that it is shaped like a fish. During Jesus’ time, Christians used the Greek word for “fish” as an acronym for Jesus Christ God’s Son, Savior. The crucifix that hangs above the altar looked like a “space Jesus” to me, but I’m sure that doesn’t really have a
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situated in Poland and his mother and youngest sister will die there while he and his father carry on their lives with the only priority of survival in their minds; little do they know, a dark future awaits them. It is in camp Buchenwald, located in Germany, to where Elie and his father transfer in the progressing years, that Nazi brutality becomes more conspicuous. This leaves him the last motive to remain alive, his father. As Elie continues to inhabit the surreal and agonizing environment with tortuous
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is the greatest singer of songs that is passed down from generation to generation. Timofei’s son leaves him to marry a peasant girl and when he does Timofei can no longer sing because he is so overwhelmed with grief. The son finally comes back, leaving his family, when he finds out how sick his father is, and there his father teaches him all of the songs he knows until he passes. Once Timofei passed, the son went out through the villages singing the songs with a tone that no one else has ever had.
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Chesterfield. In the eighteenth century, he writes this letter to his son who was traveling far from home. This letter is trying to let his son realize the importance of his pieces of advice and make sure that his son will follow them. In order to achieve this purpose, Chesterfield uses rhetorical strategies such as parallel structure and strong words to establish himself as an advisor and a father. These two identities force his son to obey him. Lord Chesterfield begins his letter with a parallel structure:
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his self destructive masculinity to control his life. Okonkwo is known throughout Umuofia to be extremely masculine. He rarely shows signs of fear or weakness. This is due to Okonkwo's promise to himself that he would be the complete opposite of his father Unoka.Unoka has been remembered by Okonkwo as a weak, lazy, poor man who could barely provide for his family. Unoka was always in debt and didn't care
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