Relating To Brian Musser My Father's Son

This story is about a young women named Molly Macneil and her young son Alan. They live in a town called Broughton which is located in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Broughton is a small town where most of its male inhabitants work at the colliery. Molly is a very lonely women who has been taking on the role of a single mother for the last four years because her husband has been away. Her husband, Archie Macneil, is in the United States following his boxing career. Molly also feels she has to keep this a secret from Alan because she wants him to grow up to be a doctor not a boxer. She will only tell Alan that her father has gone to make money for them and will return when he is finished. She also tells him that his father is

Father and Son by Bernard McLaverty 'Father and Son' by Bernard McLaverty is a short story which is set in

The absence of a fatherly figure in each Wes’s life is significant for different reasons but coherently shapes their futures. Joy’s husband was a role model for Wes, he supported his family and taught Wes how to act like a respectable man. Unfortunately, he died due to illness. Mary on the other hand had the job of raising Wes on her own because Wes’s father was not present. Wes only had his brother Tony to look up to, Tony had followed a path of crime and uncertainty. Although in Tony’s best effort he tried to steer Wes down another path so he did not follow in his footsteps, however, Wes chose to live a life of crime. In Mary’s defense she was blinded by her motherly intuition and made excuses for Wes and believed his word in times of doubt.

Relationships with family members often help one persevere through the hard times and experiences of life. In Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, Elie is faced with many challenges to overcome along the side of his father as they experience the atrocities of the Holocaust. The father/son relationships between Elie and others he encountered often determined their survival through this traumatic event.

The essay I chose for my response page is Mint Snowball by Naomi Shihab Nye, a story of a girl born in the wrong time. It's very interesting that this story is a personal narrative, but it is mostly written about Her great-grandfather. Her mother probably told her this story often enough that it stuck with her and became vivid in detail. She seems like she wished she was there with her great-grandfather. This leads to her disconnect between her and modern day society.

If a company wishes to attract new customers, a clever idea they do is to find a way to entertain them. For over thirty years, MetLife has used their prominent partner Snoopy and the rest of Charles Schulz’s Peanut gang to lure new customers in their life insurance business. Esther Lee, global chief marketing officer of MetLife, has stated that over thirty years ago MetLife has brought Snoopy into their company in order to seem more friendly and more approachable. Snoopy helped drive MetLife and served as an important role to the company for decades. In recent years, MetLife has been using new rhetorical tactics to attract new customers like changing their tagline to “MetLife: Navigating life together,” and creating commercials and ads that

Poetry is like a song without music, it has the ability to awaken your emotions and the ability to tell stories that can paint beautiful, relatable, imagery in the viewer’s mind. Upon reading the poem, “My Son the Man” by Sharon Olds, she presents a unique view on her bittersweet experience of watching her son gravitate towards manhood, “Suddenly his shoulders get a lot wider” (line1), while realizing he is astute enough to escape his mother’s strong hold, “to learn the way out” (line 16). As a mother myself, I began to recognize how I can relate to the speaker’s challenges of understanding a child’s need to test limits and break free from dependency. I realized through the speaker’s obvious allusions to Houdini expressing the need to break free, the contrast used to convey the indirect references to Houdini, and the similes used to express emotion toward reflecting back on a time of innocence, accepting the need of a maturing child’s independence proves the strength of a mother’s love.

For most of us, ordinary is the only adjective we would want to use to describe our life. Although we may strive for a simple life, its attainment might not be possible. In the book Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow, a father who likes to read articles to the family during dinner, is the perfect example of this kind of character. He has a family of five. However, big changes occur in his family. An ordinary life is all he seeks, but the world keeps challenging him with changes that completely destroy him. His experiences in Ragtime represent the life and value system of middle/upper class men at the turn of the 20th century. He also represents tragedy; everything can seem perfect at one moment, and yet the next might

In this poem, Li-Young Lee uses point of view and diction to portray the complex relationship between father and son through the eyes of the father, both in the present and the future. The reader sees through the eyes of the father in this poem and accompany him on the journey of seeing his son in the present, waiting patiently for a story and many years later when he will someday leave his father. Lee utilizes point of view to show us the story through the eyes of the father. Not only does it show us the story but it also portrays the type of relationship that the son and father have with each other. In the present his son is but a mere child that is eager to have a story read to him, “the boy is here” and is “[waiting] in his lap.”

The very republican father was very proud of his gay son. He was a very devout liberal and intended to stop hunting and get rid of all guns. And every night he would make love to his trans bisexual husband. The father saw this and commended him on his beliefs despite him living a very christian life and hunting every time he got the

Hello and Welcome! Here is where you will read all the things that will inevitably be going through my head. If you would like to read about my non-existent father, how I flunked out of college, my struggles with depression, and many many more; then feel free to stick around! Who knows, maybe i'll connect with someone who's went through the same

The father walks into McDonalds holding his son’s hand. He continues to hold his son’s hand until he gets up to the cashier. During this time he has to correct his son a few times for trying to get out of his grip, and he tugs on the boy’s arm (I’m guessing as a way to get his son’s attention, and tells him to stop.). They reach the cash register, but before placing his order, he turns and bends down to his son and says something to him (what exactly he said I’m not entirely sure of, but it may be along the lines of stay here) and lets go of his hand. He places their order, takes the money out of his wallet (which is in his back pocket) to pay the cashier and once again grabs his son’s hand, and moves to the side next to a wall and waits for their food.

The speaker of the poem “Mother to Son,” by Langston Hughes is a mother who is giving advice to her son. Her life has been difficult and hard at times. As readers, we know this because the speaker talks about how life is a staircase and her staircase has had “tacks and splinters in it” (line 3-4). This means that her life has not been perfect and she had many challenges to deal with. Perhaps she was born into poverty, because the images in her poem reveal a ragged, old staircase, like you might find in a decrepit, old building. Further, the speaker’s accent reveals that the speaker was not well-educated when she was younger, such as when she says “I'se been a-climbin' on” (line 9) which is not proper English. Since

The novel A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is split into four sections. In Part I of the novel, it was told from Mariam’s third person point of view. Part II shifts to the perspective of Laila, who is growing up in Kabul not far from Rasheed and Mariam’s house, but who is getting an education thanks to her progressive father, Babi. After a nine-year jump and a shift of perspective, we have left the realm of a husband’s brutality to enter that of a close family relationship. “She was a pari, a stunner, Mammy said.

The first essay I read was Special Delivery. This essay was particularly funny to me because I could see my husband saying everything this new father was writing. When my husband and I had our first son I could see the panic in his eyes. Then my husband, like Brian, was scared to be in the delivery room. He also toughed it out and surprisingly became very supportive and excited. When we talk about the delivery, he describes it the same as Brian, they felt it was gross. When I was in recovery my husband stayed with our son and he also described a feeling that his whole world changed because of the little, wrinkly boy he was holding in his arms.