Impressions In The Scarlet Scarves

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”.

The most well known story of children not listening to their parents and regretting of all time could only be Daedalus and Icarus. Though it does have many other topics and messages as well, and much can be learned from it. In this paper, I will show you five different messages, and in doing so also tell you ten other concepts shown from this myth that we all should learn from.

This highlights the realistic atmosphere prevailing as well as reflects the true meaning of relationship. The readers are exposed to the mother-son relationship. It can be seen that even if the narrator is a twenty-year old law student, he is still the little boy who needed his neck scrubbed from the point of view of the mother. Whatever good advice the son gives, it is not followed and instead he is given a lecture. This is a typical mother-son relationship which shows that no matter how much a child grows, he always remains a little kid for the mother. Moreover, the readers also notice the routine life of the narrator and his mother. The boy used to accompany his mother to work and help her which makes a four-hour job becomes two. There is solidarity, strong family bond and understanding between them because although he did not like his mother

Morality: Finding One’s Own Direction From day one, our parents help to craft the intricate details of our personalities. They teach us about what is right, what is wrong, and what it is meant to live in a world full of opportunities. Some parents raise their children up onto a platform that may never be reached due to the depth of their hopes, while other parents set no bar for their children and let them discover themselves. This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolf and An American Childhood by Anne Dillard share many common themes, but both Anne, and Toby take what is taught, and weave their own understandings. Throughout both of these stories, the concept of morality is one that is held in high regard in both households.

While more positive about surviving, he wants to give up sometimes too, but the love of his father keeps him wanting to live. Though constantly scared of what might happen to him and his father, the boy represents the only light in the novel. Young and innocent he often sympathizes with everyone he sees on the road, although he has fears. He also cries often, but tells his dad that if “ I shouldn’t cry you shouldn't cry either,”showing that though he is a boy, he must mature in this broken world, more broken than any world a young boy should live in (270). He sees the world through a different lense than the rest of the characters. Both the boy and the world are filled with uncertainty. Asking many questions like if his father lies about their near death experiences or asking ‘what is the bravest thing (he) ever did?” to which his father replies “ getting up this morning”(272). Uncertain of the world yet certain of his fate, born into this world he had a different outlook on his life, though he knew he would eventually die. When things get bad the boy has the mindset that though “ a lot of bad things have happened” they were “ still here”(269). This helped him cope with the fact that he knew that the road has a dead end. The father believes that “ goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again,” and towards the end of the novel, the boy finds the good that he needs, before he would leave this world (281).

In “A Death in the Family” by James Agee, Rufus Follet, six year old boy struggles with coming to the consciousness of his father’s passing. By being a child it is difficult to comprehend what his family was thinking. He did not know the cause of the situation which entitled him to start seeing an apparition of his father. Rufus’ fight was with himself and only himself. He subsequently beginnings to become familiar with hate and only hate because he had already known what love was since he dearly admired his family. A change in character was demonstrated by James Agee in the character Rufus as time after Jay (Rufus’ father) gets into an automobile accident. Rufus went through stages of confusion with religion and reality as well as what the purpose of his father’s death was and what it meant for him personally.

A boy’s life is lost early in the story because of the boys’ selfish nature. When the boys first meet each other,

I have come to a realization that by the age of eight I had already thrown away my childhood by filling in the shoes of the missing male figure in the family. While there was a parasite whom I had to call father in my life until I was six, no matter what my blood said , he was no father to me. I had to find out what it meant to be an adult early in life. While other kids could only think of what to play, I was thinking on how to help the economic situation of the family. Through much pondering I became a realist, staining myself black with the knowledge and worries of adults.

He is thinking about how unfair it is that his son would leave him because he could not come up with what he wanted and that he wasn’t good enough for him. This of course is over the topic of telling his child a story, but symbolizes not being good enough in his entire being. He is afraid of not being the man his son thinks he

"My last night of childhood began with a visit home (Butler, 1995, p. 1).” In her short story Bloodchild, Octavia Butler presents the story of a boy named Gan raised in a dystopian society where two different species depend on each other to survive. From a psychological point of view, childhood is a process that marks a big part of your life. In Freud's subconscious theory, different events can be compared with the growth of Gan: the human mind structured as an iceberg, the memories of Gan and the last day of his childhood.

A massive fear for children is having their parents leave them and the dark, so the audience has sympathy for the child and is on his side. The boy cried, but stopped when he saw a light which is thought to be his guardian angels. There is relief in “The Little Boy Found” because he is saved. A father-figure replies to their child and stays near him in the evil world of experience. It is obvious that the child is not ready for God’s plan for him, bringing him back to his mother.

When you have felt as though the world is throwing you curve balls every millisecond since you can remember, you tend to grow bitter with the universe; always questioning, “but why me?” Growing up in this home—this family, has, in the long run anyway: been beneficial. However, I did not always believe it could be a good thing to ride the road to hell daily. I used to believe the world was cruel, and that suffering would never come to an end—I was a scapegoat for all of my family’s wrong doings. Today, I see the reason’s behind actions, and I have come to appreciate the fact that I grew up at the ripe age of seven.

The boy is essentially the fathers only reason to go on, he sees him as innocents that has been lost due to the disaster that devastated civilization. Early on in the novel the man lost his wife, now the man only has the boy and will protect him at all cost. The boy is also very loyal to his father and also only wishes to only go on if this father is with him. The boy has a lot of respect and appreciation for his father, as said in The Road by Cormac McCarthy, What Makes the Relationship between the Boy and His Father so Powerful and Poignant?, “The boy does not always understand his father's decisions but his trust is absolute and he knows, without any proof being necessary, that his father is motivated by his need and desire to protect his son and make a future for him.” The boy relies on the father to support and provide, and the father also relies on the boy for hope for survival. They would not have made it as far as they did without each other, and the boy wouldn't have been able to continue without the wisdom his father gave

Marshall held his younger boy in his arms, nodding in agreeance. “I wished the world have your virtue,” he states. “If they did, misery would wither into nothingness, and our children would never learn the meaning of sorrow by another’s hand.”

It is the natural progression of life that transpires as one age’s one move closer to death. The unnatural progression is when a child dies before their parents. Parents do not expect to live longer than their child. When a child dies, life and longevity are in question and the future for the parents is depressive and absent.