Analysis Of A Secret Lost In The Water Short Story

Analyzing: The main idea of this essay is that First-generation people face a lot of situations like financial need, motivation, family, academics and social integration. The second and third generation

The son had loved his father dearly but does not favor his way of life. His interest in school greatly outweighed his interest or desire to work on ‘The Boat’. He still had a love for the sea and in some way felt like he should carry out his family’s tradition. After his uncle had accepted a new job he took his position on the boat and promised his father that we would continue to sail with him for as long as he lived, and when his father passed despite the desires of his mother he followed his dreams and pursued education and all of its wonders. After living his life he finds himself longing for the sea again and isn’t so satisfied with his life.

In the short story “Goodbye, Sweetwater” by Henry Dumas the major conflict that the characters have is related to the time period that the story takes place in. Dumas wrote this story during the year of 1964 when racial oppression and segregation were at its highest during the Civil Rights Movement. The main character Layton, is an African American young boy that experiences the Civil Rights Movement at its peak during the summer of 1964. The historical aspect and the time period in this story becomes very important in revealing the conflict of the story.

“A Secret Lost in the Water” is a short story by Roch Carrier. It is a story about how young millennials are forgetting their traditional way of life and are moving into the modern era. The story takes place in a small village where everyone knows one another. “A Secret Lost in the Water” is a story about a father tries to teach his son an important skill of how to find water with an elder branch, but the son does not value it and loses the skill. The main theme in “A Secret Lost in the Water” by Roch Carrier is how individuals’ choices are affected by their values best displayed the father, the son, and the generation gap.

“The Boat” by Nam Le, is a serious of short stories that while representing a number of different themes throughout each story, the central theme regards the complicated relationship between children and their parents, with each story examining this theme in different ways. The opening and closing stories, “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, and “The Boat”, not only develop the relationship between children and parents and how the child attempts to maintain this relationship; but also how they live their lives without their parents.

Nonetheless, doing so will not change the perceptions that other individuals who are familiar with them possess. An individual cannot wholly abandon their heritage. Their identity will remain the same in their loved ones eyes, despite the tenacious effort put in towards changing it. This is first demonstrated when the narrator realizes that “[your] uncle [will] still call you Roy Boy”. Regardless of his desire to create a new identity, he understands that those that are familiar with him will never abolish their perceptions. Furthermore, those in his town will act the same way towards him and their lives will not change because he decided to achieve his dreams. The “pheasants sun themselves beside the tracks” whether he returns or not, their lives will not be affected and he will not have an impact on their perception of him. Their attitudes will not change because they were once acquainted with his past identity in which he is so utterly ashamed of, and are unaware of this new one which he is proud of. Additionally, when he realizes that “corn grow so high that if you [stand] in the field you’d disappear”. This elucidates that he understands that his new dreams will not impact anything in any way. Everything will remain the way it was when he leaves. The only aspect that will change is his altered perception of himself. The boy understands the insignificance and normality of his identity that would be created if he decided to pursue his aspirations. Aspects of the past that were once in an individual’s life will not alter, only the individual’s perception of themselves will change. Their newfound identity and goals will not impact those that were once familiar with them. No matter how much effort is put in towards creating a new identity and leaving the past, it can never truly be forgotten because people cannot

Authors often create texts that share common themes to teach readers importance of certain aspects and hardships of life. Theme may be expressed through an author’s use of rhetorical devices and many other contributing factors such as figurative language and repetition. The essay, “Once More to the Lake” written by E.B. White and the poem “Forgetfulness” written by Billy Collins, both contain a theme of identity loss. In “Once More to the Lake” E.B White connects to a lake at young age and when returning with his son years later is unable to identify himself. In similar theme “Forgetfulness” describes different factors of human life and everyday things being forgotten and lost. Both White and Collins use repetition and metaphors to further push the theme of identity loss throughout the texts.

Children are often too juvenile and ignorant to comprehend all that is done for them. The narrator of this poem is now a grown man and is looking back on his childhood. He says that he would “[speak] indifferently to [his father], who had driven out the cold, and polished my good shoes as well.” (Hayden) After working hard all week to provide for his family, the narrator's father would wake early Sunday mornings to tend to his family. As a grown man, he sees how much effort his father put in to keep him content. Sometimes it was difficult to see this because he was overcome by fear: “...slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic anger of that house.” (Hayden). Though the narrator was intimidated by his father, he still loved and appreciated him. This father- son relationship is unique because the bond grows and develops as a strong connection throughout time, with the help of maturity. The narrator of this poem recognises the unappreciated family sacrifices that are made which only improves the bond between a boy and his

In both short stories, it is evident that aged traditions possess the capability to construct barriers between the strong bonds existent in families. Traditions have the ability to turn

Notwithstanding their partner’s contempt of reading and writing, both the father in “The Boat,” and the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper,” continue to search for reprieve through their respective books and diary.

The poem starts to narrow in on the relationship of apprentice and master with the lines, “This was his son, who sat, an apprentice, night after night, his glass of coals next to the old man’s glass of coals.” (ll 12-14). “This was his son,” is a powerful statement that gives not only a parental relationship but also of a father forging his son into a man. We all learn from our fathers and in the old days a lot of sons stayed home and

In the poem, I get a sense that there is no bond, like my father and I have which leads to confusion in the narrator's life. For instance, in line eight when he says, "I would slowly rise and dress,/ fearing the chronic angers of the house"(8-9), this gives me a strong sense of sadness, for him because I feel that he is greatly deprived of what every child should have a good role model as a father, and someone to look up to. “Speaking Indifferently to him, / who had driven out the cold”(10-11) is saying that they really did not know how to communicate with each other. I feel that the boy will regret not having and knowing what it is that makes you who you are, and may never get a chance to have and hold a special bond with his father and having a relationship with a person that can not be held with anyone else. This would bring an enormous amount of sadness to my life had I not had my Dad there to guide and protect me, when I could have used tremendous support and security.

While we were in our small groups we read multiple stories, two of them involved different generations. In the first story Tutors Teach Seniors New High Tech tricks the younger generation learns from the older generation. They learn what it feels like to have arthritis or a stroke. In paragraph 16 the author states “Coppola also has students do things like tape 2 fingers together to simulate the effects of arthritis or a stroke.” These students had the chance to really get a better understanding of what it is like to have arthritis or a stroke. In the second story Mother to Son, younger generations learned what the importance of never giving up even if life might not be looking or going smoothly. In paragraph 20 in Mother to Son the stories

Generations can be loosely defined as bodies of individuals born and living at about the same time. “Each generation is molded by distinctive experiences during their critical developmental periods” (Twenge, 2008). The