Compare And Contrast Father Son Relationships In Swimming Downstream

The relationship between a father and son is extremely important and can impact the son’s actions for the rest of his life. Trust is a crucial component to any good relationship, but especially between a father and son. In the novel Big Fish by Daniel Wallace, William, and his father, Edward do not have a strong connection. Edward’s exaggerated stories and excessive humor prevent them from having a deep and trusting relationship.

I woke up nauseous, too sick to eat. The whole drive there I was praying it would be cancelled. The fear consumed me; I couldn’t move. I just wanted to be home in my warm, comfy bed, instead I was diving into an ice cold pool. After warm-up my coach gave me a pep talk, but I was too nervous to listen. Sometimes I got so nervous I’d throw up, right before my event. To this day I still don’t understand why I got so anxious at swim meets. For the past several years, I have had a love hate relationship with swimming. I always struggled with swimming, and many times I wanted to quit. The time commitment and the physical requirements have always been a little too much for my mind to handle and it all comes to a crescendo when it is time to compete. I often wondered why I continued to put

“Get up now,” My mom yelled down the hallway. “Hurry or you’ll be late!” My brother and I dreaded waking up early to swim, but we had chosen to commit. Even though I’ve competed every year since first grade, I still struggled. That summer swimming taught me to have stamina, the ability to not quit even though it was hard.

Self-preservation against love and loyalty. The important factors in the story clearly describe the father and son relationships in the novel, Night. All the relationships are tested as they are put into the intolerable situation. Especially, Elie Wiesel and his father, Chlomo. When individuals are put into a very tough situation to choose between love or violence, loving bonds are put to the test to see if they can survive.

The absence of a fatherly figure in each Wes’s life is significant for different reasons but coherently shapes their futures. Joy’s husband was a role model for Wes, he supported his family and taught Wes how to act like a respectable man. Unfortunately, he died due to illness. Mary on the other hand had the job of raising Wes on her own because Wes’s father was not present. Wes only had his brother Tony to look up to, Tony had followed a path of crime and uncertainty. Although in Tony’s best effort he tried to steer Wes down another path so he did not follow in his footsteps, however, Wes chose to live a life of crime. In Mary’s defense she was blinded by her motherly intuition and made excuses for Wes and believed his word in times of doubt.

Swimming Up Stream (SUS) and Shine are two Award Winning Australian films, which are both based on true stories which similarly connect in one way or another. SUS, directed by Russell Mulcahy is a drama based film about a young boy attempting to overcome his dysfunctional family in order to become a world class athlete in competitive swimming. Similarly, Shine, directed by Scott Hicks, is a drama based film about a life of a pianist where musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father.

The theme of father-son relationship plays a big part in The Kite Runner and how it affects Amir's development as a character. Amir's father, Baba, plays a major role in his life and is someone Amir holds in high regards and wants to earn his approval. While it is initially presumed that Amir and Baba have a good relationship, that is not the case. When Baba was talking to his close friend, Rahim Khan, Amir overhears him say the following about Amir, "A boy who wont stand up for himself becomes a man who cant stand up for anything." (Hosseini 24). Amir also overhears him say, "If I hadn't seen the doctor pull him out of my wife with my own eyes, I'd never believe he's my own son."(25). The quotes give insight of the relationship between the two.

The Geelong College boys swimming season began in Term 4 2016, and it was evident within the first handful of Saturday competitions that it was going to be a good year with many successes. The season was filled with commitment and enthusiasm, with majority of our team attending many hard and physically demanding training sessions being set day and night, Monday to Friday. With the help and dedication of our coaches Dean Alchin and Mitch Norton the college swim team was ready to take on the GISSA swim competition where we competed against various schools from both Geelong and the Bellarine. The boys swam to the best of their abilities and gave it their all taking away second place overall. Numerous personal bests were swum and it was shown that the boys were ready and pumped to take their swimming to the next level and show what a strong team the college had produced this season at the APS swim finals set at MSAC.

The first main difference is that there were more people on the yacht. In the story rainsford and the captain and whitney. But in the film there were multiple people like the doctors and there was an extra hunter as well as the captain rainsford and whitney. rainsford is a kind of prodigy hunter and was photographed all over the world killing all sorts of wild game. He alo has his very one book which tons of people have read.

Rough times can turn a dysfunctional relationship into an unbreakable bond, however, they can also shatter the sturdiest of relationships, forever. In Elie Wiesel’s legendary book, Night, Wiesel vividly describes his and his father’s lives in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. During the book, the connection between Elie and his father, Shlomo Wiesel, slowly transitions from a broken father-son relationship to the point where they would risk their lives for one another. Initially, when their lives are rather laid-back, Shlomo and Elie do not find much in common with one another, and Shlomo blockades Elie’s highly sought-after scholarly dreams. However, once the Wiesels find themselves in the camp, the impending death of those around them brings life to the bond between them. Finally, the text illustrates many other relationships between fathers and sons being broken by selfish acts. In Night, Elie Wiesel illustrates how stressful times can change a relationship through the Wiesels ruined tie in their hometown of Sighet, the rapid development of their bond in the camps, and the failure of numerous other relations.

To me the most important quality a father has is supporting his children, as for me my father has always been supportive, encouraging, and understanding. In the novel The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, Amir and Baba do not have a father son relationship, and Baba does not put effort into trying to connect with Amir. Unlike the book, my father and I have a unbreakable bond, and he will continue to encourage me throughout my life.

Sigmund argues “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection”. A child’s treatment in their early memories directly impacts a child’s future. Moreover, it is important for elder figures such as fathers to raise their children with genuine love, protection, and care. In the novel, “The Kite Runner” the connection between a father and son may not always be one of love, but rather it is loaded with compassion and satisfies their needs which help prepares a child to understand right from wrong. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses the complex emotional bond between fathers and sons to demonstrate the necessity of a sympathetic fatherly figure to protect

Both books use aspects of Magical Realism to express two main themes; love and change. In the Drowned Man, the two elements are connected to each other and have direct connections. In Like Water for Chocolate, the two elements

A boy who shared a close relationship with his father now hates, and refuses to speak to him. He did everything in his adolescent years to bond with his father. The boy had to other siblings, but neither was as close to the father as the boy who now lashes out towards him. Where did this all spiral down, how could a close and healthy relationship between a father and son go as sour as it did? The father never changed in his ways, but the boy lost contact with what was real and what was made up in his mind. The clinical therapies view the boy’s issues in different insights of what could have been the underlying reason.

In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir views the Kite Tournament as an important mission to win his father’s affections. Amir and his father’s relationship has always been distant. Consequently, Amir is viciously envious of any other children that receive the attention of his father. Moreover, Amir’s father does not appreciate his son’s effeminacy, and claims that “there is something missing” (24) in him. He disapproves most of Amir’s passions, like poetry and prose, but has a keen interest for one: kite fighting. Despite never winning any tournaments, Amir is a talented kite fighter. When his father casually suggests that he thinks Amir has a chance of winning at the upcoming competition, Amir believes he has been “slipped … a key” (59)