Analyzing Ron Rindo's 'Learning To Drive'

Have you ever been separated from your dad for a while? We already know that the dad’s love cannot be compared with another thing in the world. The relationship between a father and his son is one of the most important things in life. In the novel “When the Emperor Was Divine” by Julie Otsuka shows the relationship assists in making a boy recognize the love of his father while he is in the internment camp for a long time. We may see through the third chapter as the father and his boy encourage their self-confidence to overcome their own experiences of being separated from each other. We are able to see how this relationship become strong and how it is linked for the boy’s feelings. Through this essay I would like to prove the importance of the father and his son, and how they illustrated this love in the novel “When the Emperor was Divine”.

How not having a father figure affected their emotional and phycological well-being. Also, it taught the readers that sometimes having a father does not necessarily, mean they are a father figure, for example Mr. Clutter, he was there for his family and children, but he chose other things to be proud of instead of his children, he felt that his achievements were more important than his children’s

The first feeling of this story is that the boy and his father struggle with their relationship, but as it unfolds, the reader sees how they do care for each other. It also becomes easier to spot the difficulties of communicating within a broken family. The father does a fine job to of turning the boy’s scheduling obsessions into a positive for the boy by noting it as one of his strong points.

The first passage reveals the parallel suffering occurring in the lives of different members of the family, which emphasizes the echoes between the sufferings of the father and the narrator. The narrator’s father’s despair over having watched

Many people define their lives by the relationships within their family. They are someone’s daughter, someone’s wife, or someone’s mother or father. The loss of a family member, especially due to death, creates a radical readjustment to people’s day to day lives and how they see and feel about themselves. Sometimes the process of grief can last over several years and how it is mentally processed and dealt with is different for everyone. “Mud” by Geoffrey Forsyth, shows an insightful view of a grieving man who had already lost his father and grandmother and is now just coming to terms with the loss of his wife two years prior. The entire story is written in first person point of view which allows for the reader to fully engage themselves in the grief and strife of the narrator’s life. Geoffrey’s story “Mud” begins in the home of the narrator where he encounters these dead family members and has to decide if he is ready to move on from his grief and say goodbye or stay behind and be consumed by it.

Tim Winton’s novel “the turning” has 17 short stories throughout it. Some of these stories connect through the character and theme in many ways. Two of Winton’s stories that connect well through character and theme are ‘long clear view’ and ‘damaged goods’. This text will be analysing these two short stories and showing how they connect by finding out what characters are the same or similar and how the themes connect.

The setting of Alice Walkers short story” The Flowers” is important for us, the readers to obtain a perspective of how life was like growing up for a 10 year old African American girl by the name of Myop. The title of the story is “The Flowers.” When you think about flowers, you instantly compare them to being beautiful, pure, and innocent. The title of the “The Flowers” is a symbolism that correlates to Myop who is the protagonist of the story. Myop is just like a flower in the beginning of the story. She’s a pure and innocent child but that pure innocence changes when she discovers something that’ll change her life forever.

To begin, in his memoir Always Running, Luis Rodriguez writes about how females are also strong. Female characters are also strong because every year, there’s a tradition where the mexicans and Anglos fight which is where females join too. For example, on page 99, it says,”Girls got into it too, ripping the blouses of the prim and proper “society” girls and wrecking the gym area.” This proves that female characters are strong as well as in the book because they have to do many things such as what guys do in a gang. Showing that they are both powerful and strong.

The story about the grandmother’s family and their deaths also generated some sympathy from me, but my feeling of sadness went away quickly. Although this family’s characters

“The Chrysanthemums” is a short story in The Long Valley, a collection of short stories by John Steinbeck. This story dramatizes the efforts made by a housewife, Elisa Allen, to compensate for the disappointments which she has encountered in her life. Steinbeck makes it clear that Elisa yearns for something more in her life then the everyday routines of farm life. While Elisa is portrayed as strong, in the end, her strength serves to be insufficient in having the courage to effect any real change in her life since her fragile self-esteem proves to be too susceptible to outside forces.

My head throbs with pain, there is no comparison possible in the world. I take the rose away from my chest: to see only one petal left. I now understand that it is my life. When it dies, I die. I’ve never been much of a horticulturist, always killing plants, funny that when it matter’s, it still doesn’t matter.

Most of the time there is a moment in life where one realizes they have lost all innocence and gained some compassion.  “Marigolds” shows how one young girl transferred from a child to young adult through her life experiences.  Throughout this story another young, but at the same time old in her prime, lady’s experiences are revealed:  the author’s.  In this short story, “Marigolds,” Eugenia Collier’s subconscious is unmasked through symbolism, diction, and Lizabeth’s actions.

The contrast between the wife and the narrator is shown through their different attitude toward Robert’s visit and also the lost of his wife. Robert is an extremely important person for narrator’s wife who suffers in her previous marriage and even commit suicide. The communication between the wife and Robert

Hanson claims that immigrants do not adapt to our society. He describes an accident that happen. An immigrant was driving a van that had a bald tire (625). He jumps into conclusion saying that the driver must have been intoxicated. Obviously, the driver ran away from the scene. This can explain a lot because she/he left. So, people might start talking about you. Typically, in some cases this happens because the driver is probably did not have insurance or driver license (625). In the essay he uses personal perspective with his ideas.

father did not die a ‘complete’ death and that haunts him. This pain is shown in a unique way