Where Is Her Father's Gone?

and sister are dead. Aubrey was able to support Gram for the same thing- missing daughter and her dead

Their fathers also affected their lives in the same way as their mothers. Wes’s father, Wes, was a strong, peaceful man who had a stable career. He passed away when Wes was three, leaving Joy with their three children (Moore 15). He still had a positive impact on Wes’s life, though. He was a positive role model for Wes even after his passing. The “other” Wes didn’t have it quite as well, however. His father, Bernard, was still alive and well, but left Wes with Mary, and didn’t care to have a relationship with his son. One of the few times Wes interacted with his father was when he went to his Mamie’s house. His Mamie was his father’s mother, and his father just happened to be drunk and passed out on the couch at

Whether you agree with Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler, or Erik Erickson, theoretical approaches to human nature all agree that early childhood years play a major part of our conscious and unconscious decisions we make. For instance, even though both Wes Moore’s were brought up without a father in their home, the reality is that these absences meant something different to each of them. For Wes 1 his father died an unnecessary death due to lack of training of emergency personnel. He remembered his dad as being compassionate, loving, and kind. Wes 1 always knew that if given the choice, his father would have stood by him throughout his life. Wes 2, however, is left with negative fatherly feelings. In the three times they were together, his own father acted as though he didn’t recognize him. What’s worse is that Wes 2 knew that his dad didn’t want to know him, he chose to leave. That left not only a hole where there should have been a very important role model, it left rejection in its place. When Wes 1 was visiting Wes 2 in the jail and asked about the impact his father had on his life, the second Wes said, “Your father wasn’t there because he couldn’t be, my father wasn’t there because he chose not to be. We’re going to mourn their absence in different ways” (Moore page 3). Later in the chapter Wes 1 gets emotional thinking about how he misses his father. He was left,

When a parent dies, any child will cling to the other parent for emotional support and comfort for dealing with such a loss. In Lily’s case, she wanted her fathers support more than anything but he was cold, abusive, and stuck in the past, that he wasn’t able to give her anything except for take his anger out on her, when she disobeyed him. Although if someone does not get that support from the other parent, and if someone else is there that is understanding and kind, its amazing to see how much you can start to really rely on them and grow a close relationship. When Lily deals with the loss of her mother and the poor treatment of her father, she doesn’t know what to do with herself, she has a load of all different kind of emotions, and it really harms her well-being. Lily deals with guilt because she has visuals that she was the one that killed her mother, and on top of that she has her father telling her that her mother left her and she just abandoned her, making Lily feel unimportant and then at the same time guilt. Rosaleen is the closest role model that Lily has for a mother, Rosaleen cares and sticks up for Lily but Lily doesn’t really have the mother-daughter connection with her. Although Rosaleen provides comfort for Lily, she helps her with her father and in return Lily defends Rosaleen as well as save her life from the hospital after she got beaten.

Overall, Harper does a brilliant job in describing the emotions of a parent who loses a child. The hope that their child will be okay in the hands of doctors and the despair when they find out that modern medicine has failed them. Also, the regret that a parent feels after losing a child. Even though Harper does play with the emotional curve of an elegy by not having solace at the end, it can be argued that he is able to entirely capture the emotion of a parent because many parents do not come to accept their child’s

Families were separated and destroyed because of war, this hurt them emotionally. "You miss her, don't you?" Bekah asked. Ever since the early days of the war there had been almost no communication with her aunt."(pg.18) This quote shows how even if Aunt mercy and Bekah's mother, Mrs. Summerhill were sisters they had lost almost all communication because they were on different sides of the battle. "The the war came the following spring, and one of the worst things about it was not getting letters from him anymore, not being able to share her most

Absent parents are very important in the text as well. Wes (the author) grew up with his father enough to remember his morals, personality, etc. This contributed to shaping Wes’s life for the better. If he never knew his father, things could’ve been a lot worse for Wes, in terms of irresponsible actions. Even when his father died, his mother was very present in his life. She had to make up for what had been lost. She provided him with motivation, and reminded him that he was capable of doing great things. This is similar to what his father did as a child, reminding Wes that he was loved, and had potential to be a great man. Wes Moore, on the other hand, was the victim of an absent father from the beginning. This could be a reminder to Wes that he was unloved or that he wasn’t cared for. Although his mother was in the picture, she was very absent as well. She wasn’t involved in toxic behavior, but was working often. Wes Moore, of course, had no other person to look up to, besides his older brother, Tony. Hence, how absent parents played a role in who each of the Weses looked up

In 1973, the Lacks family learned of their mothers past situation. They could not grasp

The author Linda Pastan, imagines a parent running breathlessly to regain her strength from the ending connection she once shared with her daughter in her poem, “To a Daughter Leaving Home.” It’s a mother’s biggest fear when it comes to their child or children leaving home while going their own ways when the time is right. This poem is based on childhood, fatherhood, and even motherhood.

For her mother. For herself,” (Carr 155). Saranell cries for the loss of her mom and quickly moves on, but the emotional loss of her mother may cause permanent effects. Saranell was comforted by the loss of her mom because she knew that she was gone all the way and not just mentally gone. In the book Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling, the main character Harry has also lost his parents by death.

Through life, we often lose someone we loved and cared deeply for and supported us through life. This is demonstrated by the loss of a loved one when Esther's father died when she was nine. "My German speaking father, dead since I was nine came from some

The missing mother explains her actions and how above all she wanted her daughter to receive mercy.Florens, a sixteen year old slave girl, is confessing to an unknown person. Don't be afraid. My telling can't hurt you in spite of what I have done and I promise to lie quietly in the dark—weeping perhaps or occasionally seeing the blood once more—but I will never again unfold my limbs to rise up and bare teeth.( 3)

With the death of family members, the family situation on the home front changed drastically. Judy Woodbury, who was a young child during World War II, testifies that the death of her father had a

An example of an ambiguous loss that I often see kids get most effected on is the experience of a missing or absence family member. One of my uncles who now lives in the Philippines has lived through trauma and agony his whole life. He has four kid’s ages from 4 and 12 who lives here in Portland with their mother, Michelle. At the age of 42, my uncle got deported from the US

Parents in the real world have children that die, and these parents don’t say they wish they never would have had their child. These parents simply understand that a life is still treasured even if its shorter than its supposed to be. The consequence of the decision was Ian leaving his family out of anger, Hannah dying, and Louise is left alone. For Ian watching Hannah die from an incurable disease made their whole marriage and the whole story of their shared life’s, unbearable. Louise is sad mourning the death of her daughter writing a book. In the end the death of Hannah affected both Ian and Louise tearing them apart.