Relationships in Long Distance by Tony Harrison and My Grandmother by Elizabeth Jennings

The daughter seemed to be trying to forgive her father for all of this, but she was not succeeding. In line twenty-one the poem shifts from the woman trying to forgive her father to asking herself why she is at his graveside trying to forgive him. She realized that her father and mother were dead and that noting she could would change that. To me it seems that she never did forgive her father for what he did but she wished that she had when he was still

“...my father had remarried. My father remarried... And my father remarried and me a young woman all alone in the Placa del Diamant...” (Rodoreda 16). Rodoreda uses repetition in this paragraph to convey Natalia’s feelings of being emotionally stuck, abandoned and isolated. There is a new unit being formed, between her father and her stepmother that she is not necessarily a part of. This repetition is used in an ordinary manner, but she goes back to it psychologically trying to exercise a painful memory, especially this idea of remarriage.

She felt bad that she had not got in touch and even worse when she found out that her grandmother had died two years before. ‘But Dee, why didn’t you tell me?’ ‘I was away; you know what I mean when I say away’. ‘I know’, said Valarie. ‘When I got out I was not myself and grandpa really helped me a lot. But I let him down so much, I just could not stop messing up, but I am clean now.

Unlike Jonson, Philips had the unspoken right of claiming a deep maternal connection with her son through pregnancy and childbirth. Philips’ approach to writing “On the Death of My Dearest Child” illustrates that the pain of losing her son, Hector, was enough for her to never write another verse again. Just as Katherine Philips, poet Ben Jonson also wrote two elegies, for his son Benjamin and daughter Mary, entitled “On My First Son” and “On My First Daughter”. Jonson’s son died the early age of seven, and he expressed the strong, personal bond between them through the years Benjamin was “lent” to him. Jonson really comes from a place of sorrow and self-condemnation while writing this elegy.

Miss Emily’s refusal to change all started when her father had passed away and when asked about it she was in denial and “she told them her father was not dead.” She didn’t want to come to the realization that the only person in her life that loved her and protected her was gone. The fact that he was so controlling of her life and how she lived made Miss Emily afraid of what was going to happen next. She wasn’t used to making her own life choices. The past takes on numerous symbols in “A Rose for Emily,” with the most major being the past as the Old South. It may be the Old South, a South that has been beaten and defeated by the North .It is, however, a South, which persistently and rather unreasonably insists on clinging to its previous wonders and one, which refuses to accept the passage of time or confront the changes that have been brought upon it.

Granny Weatherall later think about her long life and the hardship she been through as a single mother raising her children. She also thought about her first love George who did not showed up at their wedding and her husband John who died a young man. Granny rethinks about her life as a mother and her c... ... middle of paper ... ... she was scared and alone. With the Grandmother, she already prepared to die if anything happens. She doesn’t have to wear the fancy outfit for the trip but she did it anyways.

This instantly tells the readers that she is being emotionally suffocated by her mother. She is being suffocated since she is no longer able to speak about the story of her aunt. The bad company the protagonist hold is believing everything her mother is telling her. If she would have asked the questions to her mother then maybe she will have closure to the story. “My aunt- haunts me- her ghost drawn to me because now, after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes” (Kingston 1515).

When asked to hold her dying brother, her inability to show fear prevented her from portraying her deceased mother. Her reason was, " I can't. I'm not a bit like her" ( p. 25 ). Unable to communicate with a member of her own family shows another weakness, "Later in the train, I cried, thinking of him, but, of course, he never knew that, and I'd been the last to tell him" ( p. 42 ). Influenced by her father's lack of communication, Hagar's solution to a difficult situation is to ignore it or hide from her problems instead of dealing with them in a mature and open fashion.

Upon her masters death freedom was not her reward for years of service. She had to watch as her children and grand children were sold off. Left to the will of strangers she was sent to live out the rest of her life alone in a little hut in the woods. Douglass describes his grandmother’s fate as follows: She gropes her way, in the darkness of age, for a drink of water. Instead of the voices of her children, she hears by day the moans of the dove, and by night the screams of the hideous owl...And now when weighed down by the pains of old age, when the... ... middle of paper ... ...

Patching holes by Andi Long is a creative nonfiction story about family relationships between her and her father. In this creative piece Long stressest that new relations can not be made if old relationships are still broken. A family cannot expect to build a new relationships if one person is still stuck on their past relationship. Long and her father had a weak father daughter relationship and she wanted to fix their bond. Her family hides that there family is broken by patching holes.