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    relationship between the father‚ Appa‚ and the son‚ Anil. Anil is very uncomfortable and scared with his father‚ we know this because in the story it says " his father was a burly man‚ a bully to his family" this explains that the relationship between the father and the son is unsual and unsafe. the word "Bully" is used to show negativity and the harmful relationship between Anil and Father. Through the description the relationship between the characters‚ presents Anil’s father‚ Appa‚ as an abusive

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    many father-son duos. There relationships with each other are varied in terms of agreeability and love for each other. The Germans have sent the Jews off to concentration camps and caused very trying times. They have torn whole families apart and set people at each others throats. Elie’s relationship with his father changes over time. At first‚ the only reason that he didn’t give up in the camps is so that his father wouldn’t be alone. He says so himself when he admits that “my fathers presence

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    the complexing relationship between father and son through the fathers collective fears of one day losing his son due to his own incompetence. Lee’s constructive use of literary devices explores the in depth nature of the fear of loss illustrated by the bond of father and son. This is shown through various points of view‚ selective diction‚ and the poems own structure. Throughout A Story‚ the author shifts from the continuing view of the father and the son to emphasize a growing differences between

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    Frank A. Clark once said‚ “A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.” In the book Cry the Beloved Country and the play Fences by August Wilson‚ this statement is made true. Stephen Kumalo‚ the father of Absalom in Cry the Beloved Country‚ is a Zulu pastor in a small town in Ndotsheni who‚ over the last few years‚ has grown distant from his son who moved to an urbanized city called Johannesburg. He leaves his house‚ after receiving a letter that his sister is sick

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    There are three different father and son relationships in Night. Some things about them are different and some are the same. The thing that they all had similar was the fathers loved their sons and would do anything to save them. Elie and his father loved each other lots. They had never left one another’s side. Rabbi Eliahou’s son saw him getting weaker and left him for dead when they were running. The man who stole the bread and his son Meir‚ Meir barely remembered his father and he attacked him.Elie

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    301 September 30‚ 2013 Response Paper 1 Priam and Hector Father and son relationships in The Iliad are not like you would see in America or in our culture today‚ but there is still a developed love for one another. Priam and Hector had a very strong and admirable relationship‚ yet it didn’t come from seeing each other every day. Fatherly affection is not touchy-feely‚ nor is it necessarily given unconditionally or freely. Rather‚ a son must earn his father’s respect and admiration‚ and it is by

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    Unlike Father‚ Unlike Sons Troy Maxson is a father who has a hard time connecting with his sons. Like most parents‚ he only wants the best for them‚ and for them to not repeat the same mistakes he made. Troy Maxson refuses to open his eyes to what is around him these day and that puts a barrier between him and his sons. Troy’s personal experience makes him reluctant to accept and recognize the way society is changing around him. The incomplete fence connects to Troy because of his past which makes

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    Father-Son Relationships in The Odyssey "Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich‚ for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant." This quote‚ stated by Epictetus‚ is an ideal depiction of the importance of father-son relationships in Homer’s ancient Greek epic‚ The Odyssey. The protagonist of The Odyssey‚ Odysseus‚ fights among the other Greek heroes at Troy and struggles to return to his kingdom in Ithaca where his loyal wife‚ Penelope‚ and his

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    Night‚ by Elie Wiesel‚ is an emotional story about a boy and his father surviving through the Holocaust. After Elie and his father separated from the women in their family‚ the two went through many near death experiences. The relationship between Elie and his father was a long and complicated one that played a large role in the story. Their bond grew‚ as their roles got reversed‚ which is a significant contrast to other father-son relationships. As time went by in the camps‚ their relationship

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    Like Father‚ Like Son Man’s goal in life is not to do something incredible during his lifetime‚ but instead to leave something incredible behind for future generations to act and build on. In Cormac Mccarthy’s The Road‚ a man and his son struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic era. The majority of this struggle revolves around the lack of food in the world and the boy’s constant fear of life itself. In order to combat these struggles‚ the man is forced to have all faith and must keep trekking

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