Anil's Relationship With His Father Essay

His father is taken away for, what his family said, business. Then, with a surprisingly tender smile, he patted my shoulder and went away with the gendarmes"(11). Sarkis Vendarian, Vahan’s father, doesn’t seem to be worried for his life. He doesn’t overreact which allows his family to have false hope for him. This doesn’t last long. Vahan’s family gets word that he and a large group of men were killed on a march. But, the bad news doesn’t end here. A few days later, Vahan wakes up and finds out that his uncle is gone. “Two days after I was taken out of school, Uncle Mumpreh was gone. "To prison," Sisak told me."They came for him earlier this morning." "Why?" "They claim he is a revolutionary," my brother said"(15). Vahan was very close to his uncle. The two were very much alike. Vahan’s uncle was the silly jokester of the family and the two of them were the black sheep of the family. Well, now Vahan is the only outcast. After Uncle Mumpreh was taken away, a couple weeks later, Turkish gendarmes come to Vahan’s house. This gendarmes allow their family to stay in the house, but then they take both of Vahan’s oldest brothers to the garden and the gendarmes shoot them. Now, Vahan and his brother Sisak are the men of the family and they have to help protect all of the women. Vahan realizes that his decisions

His mother sacrificed a lot so Anh could pursue his dreams and passions. His mother Hein is extremely hard working. When she left her home country in Vietnam and arrived in Australia she immediately began working in her own business. The transition from country to country was very difficult for the Do family. They had language and cultural barriers to overcome. Hein owned a sewing business and worked tirelessly. It was critical for Hein to work long hours to provide Anh with the best education and opportunities. After Anh's father left, Hein was left to support three children on her own, as a single parent. Anh’s parents sent him to a fancy private school that cost a lot. Anh describes his mother as “beautiful, unselfish, loving and willing to sacrifice anything” to assist Anh with achieving his goals. His mother's sacrifice was an inspiration to Anh. Hein worked hard during the

and his father out shines all of the others. This rather complicated partnership is seen

From the day a person is born until the day they die, their family is always there. Friends may come and go numerous times in a lifetime, but a family bond is a bond that is formed like no other. Writing My Wrongs, by Shaka Senghor, is an autobiography that takes the reader through the life Senghor lived. From a young age Senghor’s parents clashed on every idea and topic known to man. After years of dealing with constant disputes, Senghor moved out, finding himself living on the streets. He sold whatever he could, including crack, to survive another day. A couple of years into this new lifestyle was all it took for Senghor to end up back at his father's house. Soon after, Senghor became involved in the drug world once again, but this time his seemingly innocent argument would escalate into the death of the customer, landing Senghor in jail for at minimum, 19 years. Throughout these years his father and son visited, motivating Senghor to be released from prison as soon as he could possibly manage. In Writing my Wrongs by Shaka Senghor, the role of family impacted Senghor the most on his journey through life and redemption.

Yunior’s attitude regarding women and relationships is an inadvertent consequence of observing his own father’s degradation of their family unit. The little interaction between Yunior and his father seldomly, if ever, give the impression of a loving and nurturing father figure. Yunior himself even goes so far as to mention: “he said little to us that wasn't disciplinary” (Diaz 129). As a result, Yunior’s developing sense of kinship or lack thereof is directly affected by the actions of his father,

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

College athletes have issues with not receiving pay. Athletes that are soon going to become a big star are still working at basic jobs. For many years people have been talking about why don’t college athletes receive a good amount of pay. They should receive some type of money for being apart of a team and actually putting in all of this work to maintain a status.

This quote is an example of how in Indian society, even a distant relative can exert life-changing influence on a person. On the contrary, in the Patton’s family life there seems to be no influence coming from extended family members. The limited time frame in which Arun lives with the Pattons does not provide extensive insight of the family’s life. Because of this particular way that Desai chose to write about the Pattons, the reader is led to believe that affiliations with extended family are inexistent in the American family’s household.

In their recent work, Brad Manning and Sarah Vowell have written about more than one way to have a close, but different relationship with their fathers. There is has always been a belief that to get along with someone you would have normal conversations, enjoy each other’s company, or share a common interest. In the story they love their father as any other child would, but their ways of communication are not the same and are different from a common father-child relationship. Both authors use rhetorical devices as a framework for differentiating their relationships with their fathers by characterizing them.

“On their third meeting he buys her a lemonade and makes a young guy in the carriage stand up so that she can sit down.” (Father’s actions) pg.3

Sudha and Anju are cousins who share a mysterious fate. When news of their fathers’ deaths reached their mother’s household; the two were born on the same day. It is later discovered that Sudha’s father lied about being related to Anju’s father and that the two, died while looking for rubies in order to “redeem himself with his wife and brother “ (32). As a result of knowing the secret, Sudha begins to sacrifice her happiness for the sake of other's happiness. When she receives a marriage proposal, she sacrifices her dreams of going to college and marrying her supposed love of her life. "I'm all my mother has. I just don't want her to feel that I too have turned against her" (73).

Family relationships can shape one’s character and indirectly impact their personality. These influences are observed in the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The term ‘family’ does not necessarily refer to relationships by blood, but it can also relate to other types of deep emotional connections that are similar. For instance, Victor and the monster are not family, however, since Victor created the monster (Shelley, 83), he can be viewed as a father figure to his creation. In the book Frankenstein, we will explore the relationships Victor has with both his own family and with the monster. In the book, The Road we will uncover the relationship between the father and the son. By exploring the relationships from each book we will discover how these interpersonal relationships are significant in affecting each character’s behaviour. Moreover, we will compare the similarities and differences between both families

So when Sourdi started dating the boy their family had hired to wash dishes at their restaurant, Duke, Nea never considered him to be a “fork in the road, dividing [Nea’s] life with Sourdi from Sourdi’s life with men” (Chai 84). Nea underestimated Sourdi and Duke’s relationship and overestimated her and Sourdi’s bond. Soon enough, their mother caught on and ended up firing Duke, but Duke and Sourdi continued to fall in love with each other. Nea wasn’t surprised that Duke, the “funny-looking white kid”, fell in love with her sister (Chai 84). Sourdi is so beautiful that she had some beauty to spare and Nea would sometimes pretend that she was beautiful too. Where Sourdi was smooth, Nea had angles; where Sourdi was soft, Nea had bone (Chai 84). Sourdi is reserved and calm in contrast to Nea who is quite outspoken and rigid. Regardless of their differences, Sourdi and Nea remained close; that was until Sourdi was arranged to be married to a much older gentleman, Mr. Chhay, at the tender age of eighteen.

Regardless of how a child acts towards their parents, all that matters in the end is their unconditional love for them. However, the time it takes for them to express their gratitude will depend on each child. In the novel The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri demonstrates this, describing the life of a young boy named Gogol and his continually progressing relationship with his mother. It demonstrates that a child is unable to view his or her parents as a human being until the parent figure experiences a traumatic event that allows the child to empathize with their parents.

In the two works, Something Old, Something New by Leila Aboulela and Anil by Ridjal Noor family plays an exceptionally important role, each demonstrates the tug between the desire to rely on and be true to the family and at the same time the desire to reject those things about family which are difficult to understand and love. In Anil the young child is both drawn to his mother and father as his protectors and afraid of them at the same time. He does not understand how they live, his father who is juxtaposed between an ever soft-spoken servant to a great man and a tyrant to Anil and his mother at home and his mother who is ever present and ever not present, the shadow of an abused woman. While In Something Old, Something New the main character is drawn away from his birth family and his culture by a conversion to Islam and roughly embraced by a family in Sudan whose daughter he wishes to marry. Each work is an exploration of a pinnacle moment when the life of the character changes and the old reliance on family and what is known becomes a challenging realization of having to embrace the unknown.