This lack of understanding of his father and his father's behavior is shown in the phrase " I often wonder how he existed" The poet also seems to lack an understanding of adult behavior, as well as Polish culture, showing that the poem is written from a child's perspective. ... As his father tries to tech him this language the narrator states that he is drifting away from his father and his birth culture. ... Cats in the cradle is a story about a father who sees his son grow up the way he wanted to, like him, only to realise that all the tome he spent at work and not with his son has...

• Word Count: 1417
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There Are No Children Here is a story of two young brothers, Lafeyette, 10, and Pharaoh,7, growing up in the poverty of Chicago's projects. Their family includes a welfare dependent mother, an alcoholic-drug using father, an older sister, older brother, and younger triplets. While reading the story, we watch the boys in their day-to-day lives for about four years. Kotlowitz provides a detailed true story of the boys" lives and portrays various incidents involving poverty, gangs, racism, and violence. ... She stored her food at her daughter's. ...

• Word Count: 874
• Approx Pages: 3

One of the significant characters in Twain's novel, a runaway slave Jim plays an important role by representing the humanity of black people even though his social status is lower than any one else in the story. Ever since Jim met Huck in the Illinois Island, Jim protected Huck as a father like figure throughout their journey through the Mississippi River. ... Since Pap was not a caring father to Huck at all, Huck sees Jim as a person who actually cares about his family more than Pap. In his tearful conversation of how he made his daughter a deaf, Jim does not only impress the readers, bu...

• Word Count: 1186
• Approx Pages: 5

Njoroge's father represents the traditional values of land being important yet adapting to the British values. His father is still attached to his passed belief that having land is very important. ... My father and many others had been moved from our ancestral lands. ... "Or be like Juliana...proud to have a daughter who was a teacher. " Stating that the only ones with knowledge were the whites and the only ones that were important were those with education or with educated children. ... It was a very powerful story when it dealt with Njoroge's life, his thoughts and his feelings....

• Word Count: 1124
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School