Short Story A Secret Lost In The Water

The poem “Wordsmith” by Susan Young follows the speaker watching their father as he constructs their house. Throughout the poem, their bond as father and child is made abundantly clear that they both love each other and value time spent together. Firstly, neither of them explicitly state how much they care but rather convey their familial feelings through actions instead. The speaker only watches their father “from the sidelines” (8) as they “watch with something akin to awe” (3) and never expresses their admiration aloud. Likewise, their father hardly outright states his affection but does it through working. The speaker understands this as they compare “all of the empty crevices” to “the words [the father] did not know how to say” (17). Another

In A Place Where the Sea Remembers, Sandra Benitez invites us into a mesmerizing world filled with love, anger, tragedy and hope. This rich and bewitching story is a bittersweet portrait of the people in Santiago, a Mexican village by the sea. Each character faces a conflict that affects the course of his or her life. The characters in this conflict are Remedios, la curandera of the small town who listens to people’s stories and gives them advice, Marta, a 16 year old teenage girl, who was raped and became pregnant. Chayo is Marta’s big sister and Calendario is Chayo’s husband. Justo Flores, his conflict is person vs. self. One of the most important conflicts in this story is person vs. person, then person vs. supernatural followed by

“Many Rivers to Cross” written by June Jordan is about a young lady who goes through a difficult childhood which follows her to her adult life. Her father was not very much

The son had loved his father dearly but does not favor his way of life. His interest in school greatly outweighed his interest or desire to work on ‘The Boat’. He still had a love for the sea and in some way felt like he should carry out his family’s tradition. After his uncle had accepted a new job he took his position on the boat and promised his father that we would continue to sail with him for as long as he lived, and when his father passed despite the desires of his mother he followed his dreams and pursued education and all of its wonders. After living his life he finds himself longing for the sea again and isn’t so satisfied with his life.

What did the father of Wind-Wolf not understand? Why is the father writing the letter to the teacher?

"The Boat" by Alistair MacLeod is the story told from the perspective of university teacher looking back on his life. The narrator relates the first memories of his life until his father's death. The story focuses on the conflicting relation between the mother and the father, and their different perspectives on how their children should lead their lives. MacLeod uses features of setting to present the tension between tradition and freedom.

Everyone has a father. No matter if the father is present in a child’s life or not, he still exists and takes that role. A father has a major impact on his child whether he knows it or not, and that impact and example shapes the child’s perspective on life, and on love. The authors, Robert Hayden and Lucille Clifton, share the impact of their fathers through poetry, each with their own take on how their fathers treated them. The poems “Forgiving My Father” and “Those Winter Sundays” have significant differences in the speaker’s childhood experiences, the tone of the works, and the imagery presented, which all relate to the different themes of each poem.

“A Secret Lost in the Water”is a short story by Roch Carrier. It is a story about how young millennials are forgetting their traditional way of life and are moving in the modern era . The story takes place in a small Village where everyone knows one another. “A Secret Lost in the Water” is a story about a father tries to teach his son an important skill of how to find water with an elder branch, but the son does not values it and loses the skill. The main theme in “A Secret Lost in the Water” by Roch Carrier, is the lack of the interest of the new generation, the valuable knowledge which is a great asset is going to be lost best displayed by, the father, the son and generation gap.

“Nothing Can break the bond a family has. Nothing”. There may be hard times within a family ,but in the end, family is always their. In the poem, “Our Son Swears He Has 102 Gallons of Water in His Body” by Naomi Shihab Nye, portrays a family that argues over something as miniscule as how much water is your body, but can easily reminisce on good moments from the past. Within this family their is a bond that can not be broken, no matter what happens. The bond that they have goes from being hostile to very loving.

“The Boat” by Nam Le, is a serious of short stories that while representing a number of different themes throughout each story, the central theme regards the complicated relationship between children and their parents, with each story examining this theme in different ways. The opening and closing stories, “Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice”, and “The Boat”, not only develop the relationship between children and parents and how the child attempts to maintain this relationship; but also how they live their lives without their parents.

The father, although coming from a lineage of fisherman, does not possess the traditional mentality. Perhaps some of the anger the mother feels in the story stems, in part, from knowing despite her wish of marrying ‘a fisherman’, her husband is far from it. From the beginning, it is clear that the father was not designed to be a fisherman. His pale skin burns and bubbles in the sun, re-burning rather than tanning (121). His inability to swim (124) contradicts the entire nature of his livelihood. He spends days on the ocean, yet figuratively and literally he can never truly emerge himself in it. He does not want his son to follow in his footsteps, which in a way contradicts what a true fishing family would want, and what his mother

The other poem regarding a positive memory concerning a child and father is “Tips From My Father” by Carol Ann Davis. Davis is referring to a time when her father took the time to teach her how to

Parents always want their children to succeed and in the short essay, “Listening to My Father”, Michael Dirda discusses how a father wants his son to succeed in his life. In the second sentence, the author states, “He yearned to see my name-his name, too - metaphorically or even actually in light, and was constantly urging me from an early age to better myself “(Paragraph 1 sentence 2). The father wants his son to learn, and explore in order to have a better life than his. Even though the father is strict towards his son, he shows affection when the son ends up getting sick. The father desires that his son doesn’t have to go through what he had to go through. In the last paragraph the author states, “My dad had dropped out of school at 16 when

When Kevin sees his father almost dying, he begins to think of the fatherless children in the world. He extends grace towards fathers in general by thinking how important a role they play in a child’s life, regardless of the mistakes that they might make. After thinking about fathers in general, he then thinks about his own father and as Bailey puts it, “ The caring-the carefulness-which was the belief in holding on to something worth preserving and passing on. Love. Kevin felt the tide of emotion that had been at its lowest ebb flowing back into him again. He looked to his Dad”. (259-260). Instead of remaining angry at his Dad for previous conflicts or for accidentally shooting his brother, Kevin extends grace to his Dad when he chooses instead to think and remember about all the love and caring his father has ever shown him. When he begins to feel that love for his father, his emotions pick up and that gives him the grace to keep on going without emotionally breaking down.

The poem starts to narrow in on the relationship of apprentice and master with the lines, “This was his son, who sat, an apprentice, night after night, his glass of coals next to the old man’s glass of coals.” (ll 12-14). “This was his son,” is a powerful statement that gives not only a parental relationship but also of a father forging his son into a man. We all learn from our fathers and in the old days a lot of sons stayed home and