Similarities Between The Matrix And My Father Began As A God

Reiterating the importance of literature, culture and fables in the modern generation, Darryl Babe Wilson’s “Diamond Island: Alcatraz” also demonstrates the large effect one’s family members and traditions have on oneself’s belief and thought. Amongst the multiple mentors found in one’s own family, the influence of a father is arguably one of the strongest. Correspondingly, my own father has had a strong impact on my daily life. Instilling qualities of not only appreciation but also perseverance, the life of my father guides not only my past and present, but would continue to guide my future.

As human beings evolve from infancy to elderly stages in life, times of struggle and hardship continually challenge their kin and personage; as life tests their mental fortitude and survival dexterity. In essays “My Father’s hands” by author Daisy Hernandez, and “Beginning Dialogues” by author Toi Derricotte, life and its whirl wind of ups and downs are expressed and exemplified. Both authors’ upbringings share various similarities on their evolutionary road trip through life. Struggling with hardship and abuse, how both authors’ dealt with their hardships, and how they ultimately survived/overcame these trying events, show similar correlations.

The poem ‘My Father Began as a God’ by Ian Mudie is about how a boy (probably him) changes his views on his father, as he grows older. As a child, he saw his father as a ‘god’ whose laws were ‘immutable’. He was a fearless hero, able to do anything: “He fearlessly lifted me to heaven by a mere swing to his shoulder”. However, by the time he was an adolescent, his father had become a ‘foolish small old man’. He was no longer superhuman, but a father, just like any other: “With silly and outmoded views of life and morality”. The cause for this change of perspective was specifically puberty. In consequence, he and his father would have drifted apart, since they would have clashed on many occasions. As he grew even older, he noticed that his

The son at first calls his father “baba”, a symbol of both mutual respect and a childlike viewpoint of his father, suggesting he looks up to him as a person. However, he later mockingly calls him a “god”, making fun of his so called authority as his father. Then, right at the end of the poem, he reverts back to his childish ways, calling him “baba” once more, even begging him to “please” read him another story. This shift from respect, to anger, then back to respect represents the circular nature of growing up. While one learns to rebel as they get older, their anger and hostility is replaced with that same wonder and admiration as there existed in the beginning. Even though the son loses respect for his father, he is able to gain it back through his life experience in growing up, furthering the fact that with maturation comes both positive and negative reverberations hand in hand.

▪ Psychological or Psychoanalytical Criticism – a leading tradition in psychological criticism is the Freudian’s. According to its followers, the meaning of a work of literature depends on the psyche and even on the neuroses of the author. Ray Bradbury wrote this short story in a very old age. And the significance of this story is also view from the point of view of the old person’s being aware of all the new technologies of the world. People shouldn’t live in their shells; they should go ahead together with the progress. Ray Bradbury, being in his late years understood and took the progress in a right way and probably wanted to show that people shouldn’t stop in their development.

Growing up we all had expectations of who we should be imposed upon us by our parents. Whether or not we achieved those expectations upon reaching adulthood isn't really the final outcome. There is a greater lesson learned regardless of how we benefited from the imposition. And that realization is what truly shapes our final character. Raymond Carver entertains this topic in his poem, "Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-second Year." In this poem Carver provides us with a beautifully touching slice of life that is not only flawless in writing and technique, but that connects and emotionally evokes feelings that are universal in all

Similarly, both texts use defamiliarisation to give representations on gender. The futuristic shifts are used to reflect contextual shifts in gender paradigms. In The Matrix, this is apparent through all the androgynous characters, such as Trinity, Switch and to some

Sometimes the only thing that is constant in life is change. As time passes on, people, places, and ideas are bound to change. Not only can people change, but whole societies and generations can as well. As these changes happen, the differences between generations can become very large, and this can eventually lead to conflict. In Flannery O’Connor’s three short stories, “Everything that Rises Must Converge,” “Good County People,” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” the gaps between generations causes problems. A skewed perspective about both the past and present causes generational conflict in these stories, and O’Connor shows how this narrow-mindedness can eventually lead to a catastrophic ending.

It’s said that we learn from our experiences. The knowledge that we gain from these experiences helps adjusting to one of the hardest parts of life not as hard, change. In Saki’s short story, “The Mouse,” Theodoric’s mother had sheltered him from all the problems and challenges in the world, but suddenly his mother passed away. Having no experience and having no idea what he would encounter, Theodoric was both nervous and unprepared to go out into the real world on his own. Through the use of indirect characterization, symbolism and irony Saki establishes the theme, when a person lived a cloistered life and suddenly faces change, it leads to a damaging effect on their mentality.

My father, Dennis Grimard, tinkers his way through life. From Erector Sets as a boy to Lego Sets as a man, he carefully pieces together his wisdom in his own way. As a bullied, adventurous kid, he developed an often-limitless creativity, with an often-relentless sheepdog mentality. He has learned to see the world from an underdog’s perspective, where his persistence defines him but his compassion directs him. His pride as a father, a provider, and a Grimard has brought him both immense pains from sacrifice and great happiness from duty. This journey from boy, to man, to father has presented him with opportunities to love, fail, succeed, and tinker together a core belief system with which he directs his life. From a

Growing up, we are all surrounded by people who shape our future. They shape your thoughts, actions and even interests. In my life, my dad has influenced that the most. When someone asks me to describe my dad, I find it one of the hardest things to do, but the least I can say is that he is an intelligent, sacrificing man. When I was seven years old, my family moved here to the U.S. My father had sacrificed by leaving the country in which he spoke its language, work that he worked years on building, and the place where he grew up and shared his memories. All that was for my bother and myself, and on top of that my father never failed to remain a refuge to me. I can’t help but remember this one day, where I came home from school, because I was hardly able to make friends. He came inside my room, sat beside me on the bed, and took me in his warm, comforting arms. Between every tear and the other I was fighting to catch my breath, and in doing that, I was able to smell his Bond No. 9, reminding me that he was right there. Right there to wipe away any worry I had within me. He always knows exactly how to make things right, and helped me do what was in the best interest for me. In the tragic play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare, we see quite an interesting father: Lord Capulet. The conflicting personality of Lord Capulet progresses throughout the book. Lord Capulet is considered a democratic tender father, but is flawed with being submissive to the society around him,

I believe in my shotgun, because it teaches me that I can find success by overcoming the challenges that come my way.

Engulfing the mind of philosophy for years, and through the works of the Matrix and ‘The allegory of the cave.’ Still arises discussion in classrooms and living rooms. The reason for such discussion can be credited to the ideas prevalent in the works. Such ideas are not revolutionary or groundbreaking by any means, but rather stimulate that part of humanity that lives to question and analyse the unknown. This discussion of the unknown may never seize to fuel one’s thoughts, seeing as though the open ended nature of such questions. Who's to say what reality truly means, aside from the ignorant and unknowing onlookers. The idea of being helpless, rendered useless after being subjected to a harsh realization of reality, almost strikes fear into the hearts of viewers. As viewers we can relate to such hardship, but at the same time feel detached, secure in our “understanding” of our reality. One is also capable of observing both works and having an educated opinion on what conveys the abstract idea of their perception of reality, and for such art forms to allow one to do so is quite astounding. All in all both works strive to ask thought provoking questions, and get observers to question their own existence through the analyzation of their own

Female characters in science fiction have been overly-sexualized and objectified since day one. Though the original author was a woman, Sci-Fi has since been a boy’s world, full of men creating their fantasy women. In The Matrix, there is one lead female character, Trinity. She is a strong computer-programmer and hacker who escaped the matrix like the

Although everyone has a father, the relationship that each person has with his or her father is different. Some are close to their fathers, while some are distant; some children adore their fathers, while other children despise them. For example, in Robert Hayden’s poem “Those Winter Sundays” Hayden writes about his regret that he did not show his love for his hardworking father sooner. In Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy,” she writes about her hatred for her brute father. Despite both authors writing on the same topic, the two pieces are remarkably different. Sylvia Plath’s “Daddy” and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sundays” have different themes that are assembled when the authors put their different uses of imagery, tone, and characterization together.