A father’s story by Andre Dubus is a powerful piece of literature. The two lessons that Andre Dubus taught me are the questions people have with their faith and the church, and Fathers special kind of love for their daughters. Luke decided to not rat out his daughter because he did not want her to go to jail. Could you imagine being in Luke’s situation in the story? Luke knows the right thing to do is to turn in his daughter but his unconditional love for her changes his mind. Lastly the author had doubts about the Church and faith. You can tell by his writings that he did not agree with everything that the church presented. The author believes in God but it sounds as if he thinks it is ok to sin sometimes. Jesus never had a daughter so the author thinks that God could not understand this. Any believer will tell you that they have doubted and questioned their own faith. In the Father’s Story Luke Ripley Tries to have a …show more content…
Luke already lost his wife with some issues regarding the church and the last thing he wanted to lose was Jennifer. It seems as if losing his wife made matters worse when it came to how he felt about his daughter Jennifer. Jennifer was now really his last female connection he could really have. During the short story it is clear that Luke is a devoted Catholic, even though he has his differences in the church. Luke Ripley talks about how hard it was seeing his children leave his nest. When Luke found out that Jennifer committed manslaughter, his apprehension and fear became real. He could not bear the fact of seeing his daughter thrown into jail (God, church and the family). Could you imagine if the same situation had happened to one of his sons? I am sure it would have been extremely hard for Jack to turn one of his sons in to the police. Fathers and daughters have a special connection and when the connection is threatened like Jennifer and Mark, the rules suddenly become
I think that the main theme of A Father’s Promise, is that people are better than things. An example of
The book I chose to read for this assignment is called “Stay Close: A Mother’s Story of Her Son’s Addiction”. The target audience can be parents, adolescents, recovering addicts, college students and mental health professionals.
In the short story "A Bad Time for Fathers" by Robert Cormier a father displays sorrow for his daughter, Jane, as she is soon leaving for college. The father fears that once his daughter leaves, she won't return. The father throws his daughter a party for his daughter as she will be departing shortly. He said, "Probably the party had been a mistake, after all, because it provided a focus for the farewells, a time and place to say goodbye, ..." (93) The father is sad that his daughter is leaving. However, as the story concludes, he realizes the inevitable, that his daughter must leave at some point for her to return once again. "A daughter has to go away for a while before she can come back." (105)
Abott's description of the father adds credibility to the story. The fact that the father was a pastor and was being adulterous, "Me in the pulpit sermonizing about parables and Jesus...." and "I am an adulterer...." made the reader feel that any person can have a big name and responsibility, but even then a person can't believe everything he sees. Then the father tries to cover up where he has been when the wife asks and he also tries to have his son cover up for him. When his wife asks him where he was at he says, "I was at the golf course watching Pudge (his son)." Then to make his story credible he tells his son to agree with the story,"Tell her.
Common stereotypes portray black fathers as being largely absent from their families. Proceeding the emancipation, African Americans were forced to adapt to a white ruled society. Now that they were free, many sought education and jobs in order to provide for their families and achieve their full potential. This caused many African American males to leave their families in pursuit of better opportunities. Obama’s father had left his home to pursue education and study at Harvard University, but Obama only saw his father one more time, in 1971, when he came to Hawaii for a month's visit. Throughout the rest of his life, Obama faced the conflict of belonging, most in part because he didn’t have a father to help him. “There's nobody to guide through
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
This suggests that the grandmother has lost her own confidence in her relationship with Jesus and has sunk lower with the misfit. The short story by Flannery O’ Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find, plays out symbolism and relations to Christianity, whether it be the dialogue the characters use or the hidden themes, all in all it’s a read between the lines kind of story, it keeps the reader in loop with the thoughts and lifestyle O’ Connor lives throughout her story. The many examples displayed about religion and Christianity plays a role on the reader and gets the student to realize that O’ Connor was trying to “sell” out her particular perception of life in this world as valid. Works cited: Drake, Robert. 5 "'The Bleeding Stinking Mad Shadow of Jesus' in the Fiction of Flannery O'Connor." Comparative Literature Studies 3.2 (1966): 183-196.
The book night by Eliezer Wiesel is a memoir about a teenager who survives the holocaust. Eliezer starts the book of as an innocent teenager who is very into his religion and changes dramatically during the book. From a young kid to a forced to become an adult or die. Eliezer has a family in the beginning of the book but he is separated from everyone except his father Shiomo. Shiomo is a religious leader throughout the Jewish community. He did not have a good relationship with his family because he was not home often. He was always helping other people. Eliezer and his fathers’ relationship is very complicated, but changes throughout the memoir. Eliezer doesn’t die in the memoir but his innocence does early
In the short story The Father by Hugh Garner there is boy who’s father is not involved in his life. This is mostly because he is always drunk. Because of this Johnny, the father’s son, has not really been able to connect with his father. He is never there for Johnny when he needs him and is always embarrassing him. This made me really sad as I cannot imagine living without a loving father. I do not think that anyone should have to live without the care of their father. I can only imagine how sad that Johnny must have felt to not have a good father in his life. It must have been very hard for Johnny to see all of the other scout and their father’s at the banquet, knowing that he would never have a good father-son relationship with his dad. The fact that he did not feel comfortable asking his dad to come to the scouts banquet himself,
“The Parable of the Prodigal Son,” which is originally one of the parables of Jesus, is a story with meaning and empathy. The moral of this story is that no matter how badly we mess up, we are not beyond forgiveness and redemption. The main reason I believe this story has been and still is so influential and memorable is because anyone, anywhere, at any point of time can empathize with the events happening in the
The simultaneous distance and closeness within the relationship between the father and the child are inevitable even in the most tragic and happy events in life. The poems “Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad” by Jan Heller Levi and “In the Well” by Andrew Hudgins are both about the closeness and distance in a father and child relationship. Both poems are written in first person, or in the child’s point of view to emphasize the thoughts of distance and the experience of childhood thinking to the readers. The poems both use similar literary devices such as motifs and imagery to illustrate and accentuate the ideas of each event that the narrator, a child, experiences. Similarities between both poems are the use of water as a motif of the barrier to being farther away from the father, and the use of different synonyms for the word, father, to indicate the amount of distance at each point in the poems. On the other hand, each poem takes its route of distance in completely opposite directions. “Not Bad, Dad, Not Bad” by Jan Heller Levi and “In the Well” by Andrew Hudgins accommodate the similarities for the use of the same motif, water, and the use of several synonyms for “dad” throughout the poems, but also differentiate because they proceed in opposite directions from the beginning to the end.
When I go to sleep at night, do you care? Do you even miss us? Your bottles and mistress I need to know, I need to know why are you walking away. Was it something I did? Did I make a mistake? I was raised by my mother for the majority of my infant years the reason is because my father left before I was born. He went missing for a few years and we didn’t know how he was or if he even was alive, I remember thinking to myself, if my father ever thought of us while he was “missing”. One faithful day out of the blue we received an old crusted letter and it was from my father stating that he was no longer in Mexico and was inside the United States. “What on Earth was he doing there”, I thought to myself. Over the course of my beginning years I didn’t
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, explores the stream of consciousness Barthes experiences when viewing his Winter Garden photo. The photo depicts his mother as a child and how Barthes decides to handle the understanding of this image. For this essay my Winter Garden photo will be titled The Father. This essay will be an attempt to work through the ideas and vocabulary used by Barthes in understanding his own photo.
Jesus told “The Parable of the Prodigal Son" to the religious and the Jewish crowd there to help them understand that salvation does not come by works, but by the grace of God. The Lord is merciful and forgiving, but you just must be willing to realize your mistake and ask for forgiveness just like the prodigal son had done. The reaction of the crowd when Jesus spoke was most likely extreme upset and outrage, similar to that of the eldest son. Since God is gracious and loving, sinners can return to him with confidence that he will warmly welcome them. A good father only wants what is best for his children, and that is to love and be loved. Most importantly, the parable shows that God’s people should rejoice at the willingness of sinners to turn to God and the willingness of God to receive them. This parable especially exemplifies God’s redemptive grace, mercy, unconditional love and forgiveness. In addition, the author greatly incorporates character analysis to give us a good description and understanding of the parable. By using the prodigal son’s, the father’s, and the elder son’s character as analogies and symbols to compare and contrast to other concrete examples, the reader was able to understand the parable on a deeper level. Unfortunately, the parable ends without revealing what the older son did. The ending can be used as a self-check; if you were in the older brother’s shoes, how would you react? Would you be rejoicing for your younger brother’s return or would you allow the bitterness and resentment of your father’s reaction take over
Adam, a corporal officer, starts as man who works everyday to catch the ‘villains’ of society, but is not spending enough time with his family, especially his son. He favors his nine year old daughter over his fifteen year old son. Adam views his daughter as a sweet child, and his son as a stubborn teenager who is going through a rebellious stage. However, when his daughter is killed in an accident, his perspective of family changes. In his grief, he states that he wishes he had been a better father. His wife reminds him that he still is a father and he realizes that he still has a chance with his son, Dylan. After his Daughter’s death, he creates a resolution from scriptures that states how he will be a better father. Because of the resolution he creates, he opens up to and spends more time with his son. By th...