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Rather than losing hope, the boy (who is now a young man) decides to use his ability to write poetry as a way to heal. He imagines his father has written him a letter, answering his questions. And since his dad is not available to him, he decides to father and mentor himself. Beaty wants his

The movie Parenthood (1989) revolves around the psychological stresses that are faced by families. From the name of the movie, the main theme is coined, involving the issues that are faced by parents while raising up their children. The movie is centered in the family of Gil and Karen, and their extended family. Set in a middle-class white society, the anxieties and pains of raising children are presented in the movie. Gil Buckman is a parent and businessman. His wife, Karen, comes out as a nearly perfect parent, and always stays at home. Gil and Karen have three children. The oldest child is Kevin, a nine-year old boy with emotional problems. The emotional problems that are experienced by Kevin form a very significant aspect of the movie,

Chris McCandless had a very comfortable life of an upper-middle class citizen, with a good education and many opportunities. On a summer trip to California, Chris learned a life shattering secret, that he had actually had several half siblings. Everything he believed about his nice happy family was a lie. After learning this secret, he began to pull away from his family, by not telling them

The story begins with two boys John Wheelwright and Owen Meany, who grow up together in a small town in New Hampshire. One day during a little league baseball game Owen accidentally hits a foul ball that kills John’s mother, Tabby. Devastated and upset about his mother’s death, John holds a temporary grudge against her for not telling him who his father is. However,

It is in these actions that the character’s traits are established. It is in this that we, the readers, get to “see” what kind of character thee people are: friendly, sad, nosey, love-struck, adventurous, etc. When we discuss characters in literature, poetry, and even film, we often describe them in terms of their character traits, descriptive adjectives that define the specific qualities of the character. The author/ poet/ director may present this directly, but often times, they show us this in action. Our job as readers/ viewers is to draw conclusions about the character’s traits (infer them). Below is a list of ways we can determine the traits of the character we are studying:

Greg dreams are broken with his father’s comments lacking concern in his ideas and disapproving of them, leaving him resentful and unhappy with his own life and family. Nevertheless his father’s insufficiency to support him did not refrained Greg from pursuing his passion, but rather gave him the strength and drove him to confront his father by letting him know that “Some things are more important” (Friesen 30) and that for him his dream meant more to him than his approval of them. In “A Cap for Steve” Steve’s father Dave discourages his son passion for baseball and forces him to concentrate in carpentry to bring money to their struggling family. Dave does not display any sing of support for Steve dreams, which to him are rather childish until he realizes how much they mean to Steve and how serious he is about baseball. Dave lets him know his approval when he states “I could be your coach... watch you become a great pitcher” (Callaghan 177), at this point he changed and know believes in his son and his ability to reach his dream and letting him know that as long as he is happy and doing what he loves, he will be proud of him. The protagonists of “Boys and Girls” and Greg form “Bother Dear” portrayed how a child’s life can be ruined by parents who neglect the care and support children need to succeed in their future goals, contrasting how they can resigned and obey or they can reveal

When Troy White proved his incredible "football genius" to the Atlanta Falcons, they brought him on the team. Now that Troy is helping, the Falcons are racking in victories. Troy loves his role behind the scenes and the thrill of having NFL star linebacker Seth Halloway, who's dating Troy's mom, to coach his team, the Duluth Tigers. Then Troy's perfect world comes crashing down. Reporter Brent Peele is out to obliterate the Falcons as much as he can, and that means going after Troy. The vicious media storm that comes down on the football genius threatens not only his job with the Falcons and the Tigers' run at a championship but his mother's job and Seth's as well. The reporter is making up fake reports that Seth is taking steroids, so Troy

At the beginning of the novel, Cole Matthews is an angry and intolerable teenager who thinks the world owes him something and that all the crimes he committed are excusable. Cole came from a very unstable household where he was beaten badly by his alcoholic father and a mother who would ignore the pain he

Tangerine, a realistic-fiction novel, by Edward Bloor, tells about a boy that slowly uncovers dark truths about his new home in Tangerine County. The motif used throughout this novel is sight, motif is a symbolic detail that the writer adds in to set the theme or mood. Paul is challenged daily with his sight and what he can see what other people may not want to see. Through the motif of sight, Paul, the main character of the novel, has a growing understanding of his friends, family, and himself. To begin with, Paul experiences a growing understanding of his friends.

Having recently recovered from a life threatening illness, twenty-four year old Sean Troy is unsure of how to move forward with his life. In the days that follow, guided by his tremendous appetites—for food, for booze, for sexual gratification—he loses himself in the two great loves of his life: baseball and Elissa, the object of his unrequited affections in high school. With the Sox poised to make a historic run at baseball immortality and the girl of his dreams madly in love with him, Sean’s life couldn’t be better. But dark secrets from Elissa’s recent past and Sean’s discovery that he has room in his heart for baseball and baseball alone

The central character in which the story takes off upon is Mitchell Stephens. He is drawn into this case by his own anger. He has his own sense of suffering and confusion toward his own daughter. Stephens is torn by his urge to save her and his fear that he can't possibly do so. He recalls the flashback of his little girl as a toddler at a near death experience and him as her father while singing to her, held her life in his own hands prepared to perform an emergency tracheotomy. And in that way, Stephens' own experience bonds together with the nightmare of those pain stricken parents: the ultimate unbearable burden of caring for children where strength will be tested beyond its limits. Stephen's own daughter in whom he loves dearly has been taken away from him although she is not dead; she is practically gone out of his life. He is pissed off, "enough rage and helplessness, your love turns to steamy piss." (101). Stephen is set to find the cause, something or someone to blame for their misfortunes and to rage against whatever forces took their child, "I don't know if it was the Vietnam war…I don't know

is resistant to change. While a part of him is truly trying to help Cory get into a

Cody Musket, a professional baseball player, suffers from PTSD brought on by his days as a Marine. Brandi Barnes is a journalist with her own dark past in a battle with terrible men that want to make an example of her. Both of their lives intertwine one fateful night when Cody saves her life. Going on the run, Cody takes it upon himself to ensure the safety of Brandi and her family. As the week goes by and Cody is forced to face the cause of his PTSD, Brandi is also forced to come to terms with her own past. In the midst of it all, both find themselves clinging to their unexpected,

Well the story starts with a married couple who can’t give birth to a child. They tried all medicines and tried many solutions, but it ended up with failure. After trying everything, this couple decided to adopt a 2 year old child. They also decide a new name for him, which is Tyler .They, treated him with lots of love, care and affection. This child completed the family and made them happy. After a couple of years the mother discovered she was pregnant. This was the happiest thing that they ever heard. However, they could sense envy in the heart of

An elder son finds solace with an ornately tattooed leather gang, which has a family's closeness and a steelier sense of identity than Jake's sodden crowd; a younger boy, sent to that state home, regains some sense of Maori pride when he's away from his father. Grace (the gentle, affecting Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell), the family's teen-age daughter, suffers in ways she won't describe even to her best friend, a homeless boy who lives in an abandoned car.