Is John Arable A Good Father

His own parents died. He told his sons the story about the farmer in the pickup.

Mother did. She was there for us, she did everything for us,we won't let George and Lydia kill her now.” “Kill her? It's a house! They are you flesh and blood, your parents” yelled Mr.McClean . Peter yelled back with anger and frustration “they are not our parents, when were they when we needed them.” After seeing Mr and Ms Handley crying and scared, Wandy felt bad and command the nursery to turn off.”what are you doing wendy” said peter. “We shouldn't kill them, they won't shut the nursery anymore” wandy said.While the argument were growing between wendy, Peter and ,Mr.McClean, they caught the lions attention. Seeing the lions been distracted, Ms and Mr Handley Stood up to use their chance and quickly ran toward Mr.McClean. After seeing them run, a cub jumped and tried to bite Mr.Handly. Mr.Handley then turned around and hit the cub to the ground. The lions walked towards the cub and nudged her with softly meowing.After several seconds of no response, the lion raised it’s head toward Mr.Handley and glared at him while bared its massive teeth. All of them become conscious of the lions intention to kill and without a second of thought they ran and closed the door behind them. Peter couldn't believe this

The parents respond to her fear by telling her that the owl is only asking “an odd question…” (4). They say that if she “rightly listened” to the owl, she would be able to hear it merely asking “who cooks for you?” (6). The stanza expresses a humorous tone with phrases such as “[It] was an odd question from a forest bird…” (4), and “Who cooks for you?” (6). On one level, the parents comfort the child by telling a lie in order to get her back to sleep, on another level, this changes the perception the daughter has of the owl. The parents do this by using the term “forest bird”, instead of “owl” to make her feel less intimidated. Through this lie she perceives the owl as a friendly forest creature, rather than a horrid monster from the night. The poem’s “AABBCC” rhyme scheme also helped further establish the tone, giving a child-like feeling to it, because it’s often used in fairy tales which is meant for children. Wilbur believes that the lie is a good way to help the child go to sleep. He justifies it in the

Fathers are needed to be a good role model for their children. A vital relationship with a father is crucial as the influence of one can positively affect a person for their lifetime. In Khaled Hosseini’s Kite Runner, one can see that good father(s) have a positive impact on a person’s life. Although Baba does not spend time much time with Amir in Afghanistan, He is still a good father because he positively impacts Hassan and Amir’s respective lives. This stance will be demonstrated through the words and actions of Baba found in the novel.

Lennie has his mind set on one thing. That is getting out of the barn and getting his own piece of land with George. This dream motivates Lennie to always listen and follow what George says. There he can finally tend the rabbits he has always wanted. Lennie loves petting things such as small animals and dresses which usually leads him to trouble.

George and Lennie achieve all of this dream that is possible in the real world: they are their brother's keeper. Unlike the solitary Cain and the solitary men who inhabit the novel, they have someone who cares. The dream ofthe farm merely symbolizes their deep mutual commitment, a commitment that is immediately sensed by the other characters in the novel. The ranch owner is suspicious ofthe relationship, protesting, "I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy." Slim, the godlike jerkline skinner, admires the relationship and says, "Ain't many guys travel around together I don't know why. Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other." Candy, the onehanded swamper, and Crooks, the deformed black stablehand, also sense the unique commitment between the two laborers, and in their moment of unity Candy and Crooks tum as one to defend Lennie from the threat posed by Curley's wife. The influence of George and Lennie's mutual commitment, and of their dream, has for an instant made these crippled sons of Cain their brother's keepers and broken the grip of loneliness and solitude in which they exist. Lennie's yeaming for the rabbits and for all soft, living things symbolizes the yeaming all men have for warm, living contact. It is this yeaming, described by Steinbeck as "the inarticulate and powerftjl yeaming of all

Do you still remember why does Lennie wants George to talk about the farm the first time? George first introduce that fine-nice farm to us was mainly because Lennie's really want George to quote “Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove” unquote. For George and other workers like the old Candy, as I mentioned, the farm mainly symbolized as a chance of freedom, but for Lennie, since he is not smart enough, it is just as simple as the soft things that he enjoys feeling over the course of the years. However, as the old saying says “Every coin has two sides.” , behind the symbol of nice and lovely rabbits, we also know that Lennie always hurts whatever he pets.

Owning a farm where you can “live offa the fatta the lan’” is George and Lennie’s dream (57). Where they can have crops,“a little house. . . a room to ourself[themselves]”,and of course animals especially rabbits (58). The farm for George will be a place he can be independent while still taking care of Lennie, he can be his own boss in a place of security and comfort. The farm for Lennie would be a sanctuary from a world that does not understand him. There would be a responsibility for him to tend the rabbits, the attribute of the farm that excites him most,while still being with George.

On the night of when they were sleeping near the pond, George and Lennie had a conversation about their new home. George started the topic by saying “O.K. Someday--we are going to receive the jack together and we are going to have a little house and a couple of acres and a cow and some pigs and---- “And live off the fat of the land,” Lennie shouted. “And have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we are going to have in the garden and about

Repeatedly, Lennie asks George the same questions about concerning if they will get the farm and when. This obsession is like a child needing to hear the same story over and over again, and Lennie wants George to describe the setting of the farm. Lennie’s so focused on getting the farm that he does everything under George’s guidance, because he believes that he will get the reward of living on the farm with him where he can tend rabbits. At the end of the novel, when Lennie is afraid and wants to be assured by George that everything is okay although he made the mistake with Curley’s wife, he asks again if George can paint the picture of life on the farm again. “ ‘How’s it gonna be? We gonna get a little place.’ ...’For the rabbits,’ Lennie shouted...’And I get to tend the rabbits.’ ...Lennie giggled with happiness. ‘An’ live the fatta the lan’”(105). When people are slow-witted, they are simple-minded and have emotions like children. Lennie is that sort of person. Similar to a child, he needs to be continually reassured that everything he wants and needs is everything that George is going to provide. Similarly, Curley’s wife is immature and needy like a child, continually obsessed with wanting attention. Unfortunately, she tries to get attention from Lennie, who is too slow-witted to understand what is going on. Not realizing why she’s

These complex ideas clashed with his father, Walt's ideas as a capitalist entrepreneur. McCandless’ inherent stubbornness inevitably lead to many conflicts and over the years, and McCandless began to see his parents as being different from him. Despite the distance between McCandless and his parents, he was not judgemental of their beliefs and he always loved them. After McCandless graduated from high school, he went on his first cross-country adventure to California where he visited his early childhood home. Here he discovered the truth about his father’s sloppy transition from his first marriage, to a woman named Marcia, to his second marriage, to McCandless’s mother, Billie.

They dream of living on their own on a farm. Lennie says, “An' live off the fatta the lan', an' have rabbits. Go on, George! Tell about what we're gonna have in the garden and about the rabbits in the cages and about the rain in the winter and the stove, and how thick the cream is on the milk like you can hardly cut it. Tell about that George” (Steinbeck, 1937, 14). Lennie’s dream is to tend the rabbits while George tends the rest of the farm, but they do not have the money yet to go buy a place to live. They need to go make some money first, so they find a job at a small farm. The ranch agrees to take the two in only because of Lennie’s huge build. George needs to keep Lennie in line though, so they can quickly earn the money they need, and then leave the ranch. George is afraid that Lennie will mess up their opportunity at the farm because Lennie cannot control his strength or actions. A few days later the dream ends, and George loses all hope. Lennie accidentally kills Curley’s wife, and Curley wants revenge. George knows that there is no chance that Lennie will make it alive, and he knows his dream is over. George has to make a decision of either killing Lennie painlessly himself, or letting Curley do it however he wants. George makes a tough decision, and decides to kill Lennie himself. Steinbeck says, “And George raised the gun and steadied it, and he brought back the muzzle of it close to the back of Lennie’s head.

In the introduction of the film, the narrator was talking about how a bird struggles for survival when losing a parent. The bird loses an extra care taker, making life’s survival rate decrease. The bird's loss of a parent is the archetypal symbol in this story because Nicholas Nickleby losses his father after the bird story is read in the introductory. Nicholas and his family's life situation becomes more difficult economically because of the lack of income. The death of a parent is brought up several times throughout the story like Smike's tragic story. Smike had the most difficult life out of all the death of a parent situation because he grew up never knowing either of his parents. A child struggles to grow up with only one parent, but having no parents to be raised by is twice as hard. Smike was never raised by anyone except Mr. Squeers, who raised him as a slave. Also, Anne Hathaway's character lives with only her father because she lost her mother very young. She struggles to earn money for her and her father’s living up until she loses him as well. At the end of the story, Kate and Nicholas Nickleby marry their significant other. The man marrying them says that growing up without a parent is always difficult, but sharing and creating new blood for someone else rebuts a family, making a stronger bond. This wraps up the archetypal symbols seen throughout the entire film from the scene of the bird losing a parent in the beginning of the film to the

George: George thought that he and Lennie would someday own a farm together but because of the continuous trouble Lennie kept causing their plan did not work out.

It can also be suggested that Mrs. Whipple is outright cruel to her son. It seems as if she makes Him do things around the farm that she does not make the others do. For example, she lets Him handle the stinging bees. Her older son Adna always gets stung, yet He does not seem to mind. This is a chore that has to be done, so she lets Him do the job. In addition, making Him capture the small pig from its mother, or lead a dangerous bull home seems unkind. Actually, Adna is unable to capture the pig, and her husband refuses to lead home the bull, so again, out of necessity she has Him do these things. He was made to plow the fields because He is the biggest and strongest and is also able to take over Adna's work when He leaves home. The fact is, she lets Him do all of these things