How Does Stevens Show Loyalty In The Remains Of The Day

In this quote, narrator Wes Moore is describing one of the only moments he remembers with his father, a positive one where his father protected him and guided him to making better choices. However Moore also foreshadows a tragic and life-changing event, the death of his father due to an acute epiglottitis.

Greg and myself have some key similarities in the relationships with our fathers. First off, we both have a dad that lives in the same establishment with us. Our dad’s also both want us to succeed in sports, school, and life. I can tell Greg’s dad wants him to do well in school because in line 4 of the text it says Greg’s dad was “lecturing endlessly about his poor efforts in math.” In lines 9-10 it says that after Greg asked his dad about playing with the Scorpions, an elite travel team from the New York area, his dad says “it depends on your next report card.” When Greg brings home a bad report card, his dad says in lines 17-19, “And you want to

In the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, by Mark Haddon, Ed Boone is the father of a brilliant boy, Christopher, who has signs of autism or a similar disorder which makes him very particular, and have extremely rigid standards. Ed constantly overworks himself to please Christopher, and make his son feel as comfortable as possible even though Christopher never thanks him. A similar idea is expressed in “Those Winter Sundays”, by Robert Hayden, where a boy reflects on all his father has done for him even though he and his family never acknowledged all of the effort and labor his father put into making them happy, healthy, and free from these labors. Both the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime and “Those Winter Sundays” suggest that a parent will go to great lengths for their children's prosperity and comfort even if their children never say thank you.

The fathers demanding nature has made Stephen feel futility and desperate. Stephan is struggling to find trust and nurturing in his environment “They spoke only when it was necessary to give commands or criticism” (Nowlan Pg__). But because of his age, he is constantly frowned upon in his environment and peers, the “Too-familiar squint of doubt, the hard knots of disappointment…” (Nowlan Pg__). he faces. Trying to not be a disappointment in life, Stephen would often work himself into aching exhaustion hoping for a sign of acknowledgement from his father. But this forces Stephen to believe that he is not worthy and will never be. Stephen often looked others with envy; he is desperate to be a man. Many times he would lose hope of becoming a man as he looked at his scrawny body “The oftener he worked himself to exhaustion, the more certain he was that he could never be a man.” (Nowlan Pg__). Against his father’s disappointing nature, the ‘cold hard knot of disappointment’, Stephen tries to be a man by striking the wood fiercely, but the axe made him feel stupid and ridicules, in a way like his father. This can be juxtaposed to the father, as the axe for him was basically an extension of him. “When his father worked an axe, it was as though the blade grew out of his arm.” (Nowlan Pg__). This intimidates Stephen,

The Short Story “My Father’s Life,” by Raymond Carver illustrates the difficult task of a son trying to find his own sense of identity and individualism while watching his father’s life unravel. Carver explores the relationships of his parents and his own struggle with sharing the same name with his father and the similarities and differences between them.

Whether you agree with Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, or Erik Erickson, theoretical approaches to human nature all agree that early childhood years play a major part of our conscious and unconscious decisions we make. For instance, even though both Wes Moore’s were brought up without a father in their home, the reality is that these absences meant something different to each of them. For Wes 1 his father died an unnecessary death due to lack of training of emergency personnel. He remembered his dad as being compassionate, loving, and kind. Wes 1 always knew that if given the choice, his father would have stood by him throughout his life. Wes 2, however, is left with negative fatherly feelings. In the three times they were together, his own father acted as though he didn’t recognize him. What’s worse is that Wes 2 knew that his dad didn’t want to know him, he chose to leave. That left not only a hole where there should have been a very important role model, it left rejection in its place. When Wes 1 was visiting Wes 2 in the jail and asked about the impact his father had on his life, the second Wes said, “Your father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. We’re going to mourn their absence in different ways” (Moore page 3). Later in the chapter Wes 1 gets emotional thinking about how he misses his father. He was left,

He’s been sending me postcards all of these years, every month or so. And, you let me think that he’d forgotten all about me? My own father. And you did it for me?” (26) Another relationship issue is brought up when Steve returns home from his Thunder Bay wrestling tournament with his dad, who he had crafted a strong relationship with and learned many secrets. When Steve’s mother comes home that night, Steve uses all of his might to hold back exploding at his mother. However, Steve does tell his mom that his father told him everything. Steve wants his mother to realize that he knows the truth behind his father abandoning the two ten years prior; Steve’s dad was ousted merely because of his mother’s selfishness. Ultimately, these two relationship issues weigh heavily on Steve and his mother’s relationship.

Absent parents are very important in the text as well. Wes (the author) grew up with his father enough to remember his morals, personality, etc. This contributed to shaping Wes’s life for the better. If he never knew his father, things could’ve been a lot worse for Wes, in terms of irresponsible actions. Even when his father died, his mother was very present in his life. She had to make up for what had been lost. She provided him with motivation, and reminded him that he was capable of doing great things. This is similar to what his father did as a child, reminding Wes that he was loved, and had potential to be a great man. Wes Moore, on the other hand, was the victim of an absent father from the beginning. This could be a reminder to Wes that he was unloved or that he wasn’t cared for. Although his mother was in the picture, she was very absent as well. She wasn’t involved in toxic behavior, but was working often. Wes Moore, of course, had no other person to look up to, besides his older brother, Tony. Hence, how absent parents played a role in who each of the Weses looked up

The influence of parents and how their children are affected by their choices is ever present by means of direct characterization and tone in The Other Wes Moore. The two men, according to the author Wes Moore, have the same name and background, but different fates. The other Wes Moore grew up in a house with no father and a mother, Mary, that worked constantly to support her family. On account of this, Wes “felt he had to take care of her [because] his father had been a ghost since his birth” (Moore 18).The opinion that the author, Wes Moore, creates gives the idea that through tone, it is the other Wes Moore’s duty to take care of his family instead of going to school.When Mary lost her grant for John Hopkins University,

Upon reading further into Tobias Wolff’s life, his father and brother lived on the east coast while he and his mother traveled through the Midwest with hopes of settling in Utah. The father figure in the excerpt for The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates was portrayed as a compassionate, gentle man. We read about this in his reaction to Wes mother, Joy, after she yells at her young son; “He’s only three. He doesn’t understand what he did wrong. Do you really think he knows what a woman beater is?” (Moore, 2010) Although Wes’ dad was a tall man, who could appear menacing to a three year old boy, he felt secure and calm when he comes to his room to discuss what he did wrong. Wes recalls that the only memory of his father was this particular incident and when his father passed away. Upon reading further into Wes Moore’s life, he witnessed his father’s death at the same age that we read about this particular memory in the excerpt. As I am pondering about the influences that Tobias’ and Wes’ fathers may or may not have had on their lives, I wonder if Wes’ experience was a better one that Tobias’. Wes’ father was in his life until his passing, but Tobias’ father doesn’t appear to be in his life at

When Kevin sees his father almost dying, he begins to think of the fatherless children in the world. He extends grace towards fathers in general by thinking how important a role they play in a child’s life, regardless of the mistakes that they might make. After thinking about fathers in general, he then thinks about his own father and as Bailey puts it, “ The caring-the carefulness-which was the belief in holding on to something worth preserving and passing on. Love. Kevin felt the tide of emotion that had been at its lowest ebb flowing back into him again. He looked to his Dad”. (259-260). Instead of remaining angry at his Dad for previous conflicts or for accidentally shooting his brother, Kevin extends grace to his Dad when he chooses instead to think and remember about all the love and caring his father has ever shown him. When he begins to feel that love for his father, his emotions pick up and that gives him the grace to keep on going without emotionally breaking down.

It would seem that this man was a failure as a father. This passage, coming from the father’s son, would undoubtedly have experienced this first-hand. While using words such as “us” and “our,” Baldwin evokes an image of the pain him and his siblings went through. His presence was enough to paralyze a child when trying to help it with homework. When trying to comfort a child by playing with it, he only vexed the child further, causing it to cry. Baldwin depicts

Being a child is one of the hardest stages in a person’s life. They go through doing all the wrong things in order to learn how to do the right things, and then they socially develop into a sensible mature adult. During this stage of a young child's life, the roles of parenting are absolutely crucial and determine a child’s role that he/she is going to play in society in the future. This is a crucial part of everyone’s life, they need to learn what they are good at and what they are not good at. In the poem "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden, there is a sense that the narrator does not have a special bond with his father when he was a young boy, and that there is a sense of fear toward his father. I

In “Why the Father Wound Matters: Consequences for Male Mental Health and the Father-Son Relationship”, Miller states that a fathers wound is as an internalized, unresolved conflict between father and son…… suggest that father wounds are so pervasive that they are a “normative development