Quotes From 'All Over But The Shoutin'

‘Growing older, I remember words he taught me, Remnants of a language I inherited unknowingly'-appreciates what his father has passed on to him when describing the clerk, negative images are used ‘dancing-bear grunts'

In the middle of Tobias Wolff’s short story “Powder,” The father says, “I’ll tell you what I want, I want us all to be together again,” (35). We are left to wonder, how far a father will go to save his relationships with his family after being stuck on the top of a snowy mountain. Wolff portrays the father as an inconsiderate man with little care for the well-being of his marriage and relationship with his son. However, when his wife calls for a split, his efforts to save his relationship with his son increase. As the son notices his father putting in effort to keep his promise to get him home, he develops respect, trust, and appreciation for his father for taking risk.

As Doctorow states, “He wandered through the house finding everywhere signs of his own exclusion. His son now had a desk, as befitted all young students. He thought he heard an Arctic wind but it was the housemaid Brigit pushing an electric suction cleaner across the rug in the parlor” (109). Father’s “treasures” brought home from his expedition, are not perceived as valuable or even desirable to his family: “He pulled Arctic treasures from his trunk…incredible treasures in the North, but here in the parlor the embarrassing possessions of a savage. The family stood around and watched him on his knees. There was nothing he had for them” (110). Father is embarrassed by his family’s response and lack of interest. Father is struggling to reconcile the dream he left behind and the dream he pursued but does not accomplish. As the book progresses, Father grows increasingly distant from his family. At one point in the novel Father realizes he is no longer attracted to mother in a lustful way, most likely symbolizing the increasing separation he is experiencing from his family. As the narrator details, “Once accustomed to life together after his return from the Arctic, they had slipped into an undemanding companionship in which he felt bypassed by life, like a spectator at an event” (216). Father’s quest for personal fame and historical

It is crucial that we study Australian Narratives as it creates insights into events we may have not explored. This is evident in the novel "Crow Country" written by Kate Constable. It teaches us about Aboriginal beliefs and spirituality, Australia's History and respect, as we experience what it feels like to live in rural Australia, creating an understanding about Aboriginal people. Therefore, through a close read and study of "Crow Country", readers are able to learn new and important things about our past and present, showing that it is crucial to study Australian Narratives.

In the chapter, “Silver Hair, Golden Years,” Rick Bragg tells us in five different stories about people who have very difficult lives. Growing up was hard for the characters in all the articles, and some faced many hardships. Although some had it much worse than others, they all struggled in similar aspects, for example socially, economically, and loneliness.

“If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.” This quotation by James Arthur Baldwin helps to bring about one of the main points of his essay, “Notes of a Native Son.” Baldwin’s composition was published in 1955, and based mostly around the World War II era. This essay was written about a decade after his father’s death, and it reflected back on his relationship with his father. At points in the essay, Baldwin expressed hatred, love, contempt, and pride for his father, and Baldwin broke down this truly complex relationship in his analysis. In order to do this, he wrote the essay as if he were in the past, still with his father,

Alternative comparison that emphasizes the father’s physical massiveness strengthens Manning’s admiration and gratitude toward his father. Manning uses an alternative

In their recent work, Brad Manning and Sarah Vowell have written about more than one way to have a close, but different relationship with their fathers. There is has always been a belief that to get along with someone you would have normal conversations, enjoy each other’s company, or share a common interest. In the story they love their father as any other child would, but their ways of communication are not the same and are different from a common father-child relationship. Both authors use rhetorical devices as a framework for differentiating their relationships with their fathers by characterizing them.

Both “Arm Wrestling with My Father” and “Shooting Dad” written by Brad Manning and Sarah Vowell, respectively, portrays a damaged and rough relationship that a son and/or daughter holds with his father. Although they both find themselves struggling, they are dealing with different things, Manning is dealing with a physical bounding, while Vowell finds herself handling a more emotional and communicative type of bonding. Eventually, both characters find themselves in a mature relationship over time. The characters had similarities and also differences with their respective father. Throughout the stories, both authors dig into the relationship between child and father and how it can be shaped and changed over time.

Initially, Reyes begins her article with an emotional appeal as she shares with her audience a story about a man named Brent Kroeger, who so happens to be a stay at home father. Consequently as he was viewing vulgar comments concerning stay at home fathers, Brent was troubled “wondering if his friends [thought] those things about him” claiming

In “My Papa’s Waltz” by Roethke and “Those Winter Sundays” by Hayden, the two narrators speak about their fathers in a way that shows there were two different sides to their fathers. One side was abusive and strict, while the other side was loving and caring. Each narrator has a different attitude toward their feelings for their fathers. Roethke has a more fun and understanding view of his father, while Hayden has a more cold and uncaring attitude toward his father. Both Hayden and Roethke talk about their father’s character flaws in their poems. Even though there are flaws in their fathers, both the narrators learn to over see

It would seem that this man was a failure as a father. This passage, coming from the father’s son, would undoubtedly have experienced this first-hand. While using words such as “us” and “our,” Baldwin evokes an image of the pain him and his siblings went through. His presence was enough to paralyze a child when trying to help it with homework. When trying to comfort a child by playing with it, he only vexed the child further, causing it to cry. Baldwin depicts

The girl expresses these feelings when she tells her father, “there is no more time for you. there will/ never be time enough daddy…” (ll. 8-9). Those words represent the girl’s anger and shows the reader how her patience is ending for her father after everything that was did to her mother before her passing. Although her father is now deceased the reader can still see the anger and impatience the girl shows her father. Shortly after the girl expresses how she feels about giving her father time, she tells him that, “I wish you were rick so I could take it all/ and give the lady what she was due…” (ll. 10-11). This statement illustrates how the girl wishes she could take everything from her father if it was possible. By wanting to take everything from her father, the narrator paints an image of all the bitterness the girl is holding inside of her. However, after the girl lets her bitterness be known, she then begins to kind of defend her father in a sense. The girl starts to explain how her father became the way he is now by saying, “you were the only son of a needy father, / the father of a needy son...” (ll. 12-13). The comments present the reader with the ability to see that the father’s ways are not his own fault, but they are the outcome of being raised by a

John Cleever's "Reunion," is a story about a young boy meeting his father after eons of living apart. Charlie, meeting his father, even though it's for few hours, was elated. Although anxious of the meeting, Charlie had great expectations of his father. He saw his father as "big, good-looking man" saying he smelt like "the rankness of a matured male." With enthusiasm, he went about his meeting with his father. Unfortunately, things didn't turn out as expected. Charlie's father turned out to be a bumptious man who demeaned everyone he talked to. He was full with pompousness - thinking he's smarter and better than others. His father appeared to be a thoughtless soul who doesn't care for the well-being of his son, or the law. Charlie's expectations

In all the time my father talked about Eddie and the good old days on the Heights, he never once mentioned my mother. It had been over twenty years since my mother left home, and in all those years and the many conversations I shared with my father, her name was never mentioned. My father had mellowed with age, but I doubted if he would ever become liberal-minded enough to talk about my mother again.