What Similarities and differences can you find between Growing Up

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What Similarities and differences can you find between Growing Up

and The Son’s Veto? You should pay particular attention to the way

the relationships between parents and children are portrayed by the

authors. Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy was a pre-twentieth, post-nineteenth century author, he

wrote short stories and novels, even poems. Hardy explores the

different levels of relationships between men and women. He delves

into the environments and the circumstances in which they live upon.

Hardy digs deep to find the love hate and sacrifice in this story,

‘The Son’s Veto.’ It is basically about the relationship between

mother and son, husband and wife and two lovers. ‘The Son’s Veto’ is a

roller coaster of emotions, happy, sad, frustrating, sorrow, love,

remorse and hate, each feeling immense in themselves. Joyce Cary

passed away in 1957. When he died he had become accepted as one of the

best modern novelists. In ‘Growing Up’ one of his famous novels, there

is a moral, ‘no matter how old we are we are never too old to learn.’

This story concentrates on the relationships of the two sisters and

their father, it grasps the meaning of love from the father, hate from

the daughters to their father but most of all it grasps the meaning of

growing up vividly in a more modernist twentieth century way.

In ‘The Son’s Veto’ it goes on about a story of a woman in a

wheelchair, with beautiful braided hair, and it is basically a story

of the relationships revolving around this woman, and with her. This

story starts off with a full-blown introduction of this woman, with a

description of her hair, and her stance, and her features. Then it

goes onto her past, like a premonition, describing the village of

where she lived, and the emotions of the goings on around the village.

We meet Sophy; Sophy is the woman from the present, with the beautiful

braided hair. She is a strong character, the parlour maid in the

parson’s house. Then we move on to meet another character, Sam. He is

the gardener of Sophy’s acquaintance. ‘He was a young gardener of her

acquaintance. She told him the particulars of the late event, and they

stood silent,’ this shows us there is some kind of awkwardness between

these two people. They begin to converse. They start walking towards

Sophy’s mothers door, with Sam presenting his arm around her waist, as

you can see from this, Sam likes her in a sexual way, but from Sophy’s

reaction, ‘she gently removed it’ the feeling isn’t mutual.

We move on to meet the Parson, Mr Twycott.

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