An Analysis Of 'All Over But The Shoutin'

In “The Author to Her Book,” Bradstreet is inundated in indecision and internal struggles over the virtues and shortfalls of her abilities and the book that she produced. As human beings we associate and sympathize with each other through similar experiences. It is difficult to sympathize with someone when you don’t know where they are coming from and don’t know what they are dealing with. Similar experiences and common bonds are what allow us to extend our sincere appreciation and understanding for another human being’s situation. In this poem an elaborate struggle between pride and shame manifests itself through an extended metaphor in which she equates her book to her own child.

Bragg’s dejected tone when addressing his father’s latest demeanor is satirical as the Father’s past behavior is anything but celebratory. The author’s conscious decision to compare his memories of the Father to that of a “man” and a “monster” depicts the two emotions Bragg intended to invoke from his readers through the use of tone: contentment and fear. He wanted his readers to share his contentment with his father’s past demeanor, though distressing. In contrast, Bragg hoped his readers share his fear of his father’s past demeanor, despite his innate urge

I remember the rage in my stomach. Later it burned down to a smoldering self-pity, then to numbness. At dinner that night my father asked what my plans were. “Nothing,” I said. “Wait” (O’Brien 42).

Bragg mentions his memories, depicting his father’s voice as sounding “fine when he laughed and so evil, slurred by a quart of whiskey” and describing his father as “the man and monster of [his] childhood” (217). Bragg has been disappointed my father numerous times, but still, on occasion, remembers and respectably portrays his father. The author cannot come to abandon a relationship with his father because he looks up to him despite his behavior when Bragg was a kid. Even though his father acted like a “monster” when Bragg was young, he was “the man… of [his] childhood” (217). The writer tells about getting a gun and three cardboard boxes filled with books and a few dirty books. Bragg even mentioned that his dad said to him that his mother said he still likes to read (219). All Bragg could do was mumble thank you to his dad for these gifts. The father he had as a child never cared about what Rick liked, and the one in the room with him seemed to

A father’s true objective lies in his mind and commitment to his family. Debauchery becomes irrelevant and a sense of achievement overcomes. Such standards set for an ideal father are mere facades of what was deemed “normal” in a typical white household. However that is not the case for Jeannette Walls. Unlike many, Walls has experienced a permissive childhood of exploration and adventure that brought about several realizations in her youth. One of these realizations was the concern of identifying the good will of an individual or the malicious intent they may bear. Though at the time, this was the least of her worries. What was undoubtedly coherent to Walls --- was the detriments of a father. The influence of a father that does not display unity, supply sufficient necessities, and presents ease diminishes his family’s happiness.

As we examined the essay “Sonny’s Blues” and “The Rich Brother” that may not have a great deal in common, but with more analysis in to the stories it becomes clear that they are similar but still have their own uniqueness. The stories are “The rich brother” which was written by Tobias Wolff is known for short stories or memoir and “Sonny’s Blues” which was written by James Baldwin also an American writer best known for its eloquence or rhetorical force in his writing. Both writers a best known for their famous writing than span for decades.

With a society rooted in the traditional roles of the sexes, stereotypes are inevitable in America. The soft, quiet, and pretty woman. The intimidating and masculine man, almost always the breadwinner of the family. The daughter, who exclusively plays with plastic dolls and make-pretend tea parties. In “Reunion” by John Cheever, the focus is on the relationship between father and son. The father portrayed as destructive, aggressive, insensitive, a worn out cliché. The son is the author himself, walking around in the shadow of his father, looking up to him, at first. This relationship between Cheever and his father brings a light to the toxic masculinity portrayed in movies, television shows, and literature. By depicting this false view of what a strong male lead looks like, Cheever helps perpetuate these stereotypes.

The author begins his article appealing to pathos as he explains his childhood and the stories that

The whole essay documented the process by which the narrator attempted to gain the acceptance and acknowledgement from her father as a writer. “In a sense, everything I have ever written has been for him, to win his approval even though I know my father can’t read English words”(Cisneros, 140). From her father’s perspective, her future life was restrained to domesticity as a wife. Therefore, as a daughter, even though the narrator had the potential to become a brilliant writer, her father and cultural background continued to stifle her.

Christopher’s father has difficulty in coping with loss. Upon ending relationships, such as with his ex-wife and with Mrs Shears, he takes extreme actions against the person. Hence, Christopher’s father is personally challenged by coping with loss, resulting in the harsh actions he takes to cope with loss. By acting rashly out of anger, Christopher’s father is able to obtain comfort from his losses. An example of how Christopher’s father copes with loss is with his ex-wife.

The poem “My Father’s Song”, written by Simon J. Ortiz demonstrates to us a look at a world a long way from that of our own. With Ortiz being raised an Acoma Indian a significant number of his poems depend on the spoken customs and bits of intelligence go down from era to era. At first loo the ballad seems, by all accounts, to be a straightforward one of a beneficial affair between a kid and his dad. This poem’s start shows that Ortiz values the lessons that his father taught him. It also shows that he misses his father. Its arrangement and wording and utilization of redundancy give it a feeling of effortlessness and its absence of an unpredictable thought. However, this is really the surface of the poem. Numerous basic articles of the poem “My Father’s Song” clarify it in a couple of steps.

He cried uncontrollably for a long time laid his father. And next year, Peck died. After father died, Robert realized father’s greatness and the story end. As I read this book, I think my father very much. Maybe apart from the father now, I recalled my childhood with my father.

By employing a haughty, callous tone and through her diction, Krauss characterizes the narrator as an insensitive individual who takes shelter in a cold professional role in order to shield herself from blame. Words like prominent, published, and celebrated establish the portrayal of the narrator as a successful author (Krauss 182). They also suggest an arrogant personality. When she writes, she is brutal, with no care for others’ emotions. Her only care is further success. Only a year after her father’s death, she writes about the intense shame a dignified man experiences with loss of bodily control. The narrator unsparingly uses such unembellished, detailing words as abandoned, humiliations, defecated, torturous, shame, illness, suffering,

Art Spiegelman tried to keep his father’s narrative in chronological order but ultimately failed. The very choppy back and forth narrative between main ideas that his father told really showed his father’s inner struggles and conflict with the retelling of his

Growing up in a single parent household gave me a difficult childhood while growing up because I didn't have many of the advantages many of my other friends had. Little did I know, I had over and above. She was never really the type to show much affection, but like Robert Hayden’s father in Those Winter Days, she had a different kind of love language. Robert Hayden, describes of the amount of love his father had for him because he did not should it by affection, words, or emotion but instead by his actions, which sometimes went unrecognized. He conveys to the reader through language, imagery, and emotion.