Tommy's father (Henry) had spoken to his wife (Julia) about buying the hockey equipment for their son and then he would teach Tommy how to play hockey on a pond that froze in the winter. ... Just the look on his son's face made Henry feel like he was the best father in the whole world. ... After breakfast, Tommy kissed his mother goodbye and then him and his father left to go to the frozen pond to play hockey. ... Henry put all the hockey equipment on his son. ... However, at the same time that Henry was putting his hockey clothes on, Tommy was so excited that he decided to go on...

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Eliezer works extremely hard throughout the story to keep his father close and avoid being like the other cruel sons he saw, avoid death, and survive the Holocaust. Three times Eliezer saw relationships between fathers and their sons go rotten. ... The third terrible father-son relationship Eliezer saw was near the end when everybody was packed into the train leaving Gleiwitz they stopped in a German township and somebody on the road threw a piece of bread into the train and one son, named Meir, beat his own father to death over the piece of bread. ... Eliezer also understands that his ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the short story "Father and I", by Par Lagerkvist, a boy and his father take a walk in the woods on a Sunday afternoon. ... The father waves and the driver waves back. ... The father points out that it is strange to see a train like that. ... Right after the father told the boy he shouldn't be frightened, the boy realizes his father cannot always protect him. ... The conflict in this story is between the father and the son. ...

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He is the father of two kids, Jem and Scout, and he is a lawyer. ... A good father always shows affection to his children. ... Second evidence to the claim that Atticus is a good father is when he says, "Just one more week son."... When he says this he uses the word, son, showing he loves him, and he will do best for him. ... This claim is not greater than my original claim because there are lot more proofs showing that Atticus is a good father than a bad father. ...

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His entire life is summed up in just four little verses: "When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. And after he became the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had many sons and daughters. ...

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I think the most important relationship is a father-son relationship. A father-son relationship is very while your son is young. ... A good father-son relationship is a father that teaches his son right and wrong. There are so many things a father can teach his son at a young age. ... The Indian Camp story tells different sides of a father-son relationship. ...

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His father is described as a "savage" man and orders the mother to "get back" when she tries to tend to her son's injuries. ... His father, believing the son would have exposed him, struck him when they were alone but at the same time, tried to emphasize to his son, how family had to stick together. He tells his son that "You got to learn to stick to your own blood or you ain't going to have any blood to stick to you" yet at the same time, he seems to treat his family coldly and harshly. By including his son in his bad deeds however, the father seems to not have a moral compass. ...

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Claudius' awareness of Hamlet's agony over his dead father, results the king to believe that such level of depression is absurd; therefore, Hamlet's stepfather condemns his son's feelings striving for control over Hamlet's emotions. ... Therefore, in front of the whole court the king verbally attacks and accuses his son with "'tis unmanly grief"(2.1.95) and how his son is "a heart unfortified, a mind impatient, an understanding simple and unschooled" (2.1.97-98). ... Claudius, at the court meeting understands that spirits of grief over his dead...

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Troy is the son of an abusive father. ... At the time, Troy had a son from a previous marriage. ... After they were married, they wanted to have a son. Cory, their son, was born. ... Troy thought he was a good father because he put a roof over his son's head and fed him. ...

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Claudius' awareness of Hamlet's agony over his dead father, results the king to believe that such level of depression is absurd; therefore, Hamlet's stepfather condemns his son's feelings striving for control over Hamlet's emotions. ... Claudius' introduction to Hamlet's grief, makes the king naively questions his son with no understanding of "how is it that the clouds still hang on [Hamlet]?... Therefore, in front of the whole court the king verbally attacks and accuses his son with "'tis unmanly grief"(2.1.95) and how his son is "a ...

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Hal is portrayed as being a cowardly drunkard and a disgrace to his father, King Henry. ... Prince Hal spends most of his time with Falstaff drinking and being a menace to society, which disappoints King Henry greatly, and makes him envious of Hotspur's father, lord Northumberland: Yea, there that mak'st me sad, and mak'st me sin In envy that my lord Northumberland Should be the father to be so blest a son- A son who is the theme of honour's tongue, Whilst I by looking on the praise of him See riot and dishonour stain the brow Of my young Harry. (1.1.77-85) Ki...

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In this poem, we read about a son who is struggling with his father's impending death. ... This seems to represent the struggle of both the father and son between life and death. ... In the last stanza we see a son's final plea to his father who is "there on a sad height" which seems to metaphorically represent the plateau he stands upon at the end of his life. ... We see the repetition of the son's commands broken up at this point. ... To me, this represents a final acceptance of the inevitable; both the father and son have seemed to resolve their conflict between life and ...

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He highly disagrees with this decision as does his father, Cuyloga, and Half Arrow, a close friend. ... Upon his arrival, a blissful welcoming awaits him, showing he has been missed, especially by his father. ... Although he is spared his life, Cuyloga knows his son was now white. Cuyloga agreed with Half Arrow that he would no longer speak to True Son. They each parted ways, True Son to the white community and the Indians to their tribe. ...

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Cry, The Beloved Country, by Alan Paton Father Steven Kumalo is a father figure to Absalom in Cry, The Beloved Country. ... This contributes to the story because Absalom is like a son to Kumalo, so this hurt Kumalo very deeply. ... Kumalo will have to step it up for him and be a father figure for the child. ... In this novel the whites were almost like an abusive father to the blacks. ... They were like a father, Kumalo, and a son, Absalom. ...

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She gave birth to a son. A short time after her son's birth, Luis disappeared. ... Laura's son was born very undernourished. ... Then one night, the father to the baby and threw him in the river. ... She ran outside and found her father coming from the river. ...

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Andre has died of AIDS, his mother, boyfriend and boyfriend's family (Andre's mother, Cal- Andre's boyfriend, Arthur-Cal's Father and Penny Cal's sister) are gathered in central park, they are releasing white balloons as a symbolistic way of letting go of Andre. ... By Andre's mother remaining silent throughout the play it makes it difficult for us to understand how she is really feeling about these revelations and how she felt about her son in general. It seems that Cal's father had a closer relationship with Andre that his own mother did, Arthur even sta...

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This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Eventually, they completely disowned their father and consequently, he was driven insane. Later in the play, Cordelia once again has an encounter with her father. ... Evil is represented throughout the play by Lear's two eldest daughters, but more significantly portrayed by Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester. ... Edmund tricks his father into thinking that his truly loyal son, Edgar, is tryin...

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This story revolves around the continuous battle of good (King Lear's one truly good daughter Cordelia) and evil (Edmund, the son of Gloucester) within the theme of human nature. ... Eventually, they completely disowned their father and consequently, he was driven insane. Later in the play, Cordelia once again has an encounter with her father. ... Evil is represented throughout the play by Lear's two eldest daughters, but more significantly portrayed by Edmund, the illegitimate son of Gloucester. ... Edmund tricks his father into thinking that his truly loyal son, Edgar, is tryin...

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Gloucester, Who is the Earl of Gloucester, starts the play of at the top of his game and crashes down due to his blindness toward his sons. ... Edmond wants to get rid of his father, Gloucester, as Goneral and Regan wish to have Lear out of their lives. ... And Regan says to her father, "... She comes too short, that I profess/ Myself an enemy to all other joys/ Which the most precious square of sense possesses,/ And find I am alone felicitate"(Act I Scene i||76-79) After Gloucester loses his land and his title to his son Edmond, he realizes that Edgar was the true son that was really faith...

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The movie is a telekinetic genre because Kevin Bacon can see and sense thing that are not there, example would be the taken of his son he seen and felt somthing wrong was going on. ... The difference in the movie is that usally the mother is more open minded than the father, but its seems thatt the mother is scared of what is happening and does not believe what is going on. In the movie the mother and father are fighting because the father believes that his son was intracting with the dead girl and the mother does not believe it at all nd is scared that he might be right. ... First the is...

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His father ended up being a rude alcoholic. ... He observed how alcohol influenced his relationship dealing with educate in a public place, demeanor towards his son, and his rudeness towards strangers. ... Charlie's father was very adamant about Charlie drinking with him. ... Alcohol transformed his father into a different person. Charlie's fathers educate in a public place, demeanor towards his son, and his rudeness towards strangers changed the way Charlie looked at him. ...

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Although the story did show more of Matt's inner thoughts and feelings on a much deeper level then the movie was able to portray, it did not show much interaction between him and his son while he was alive. ... This made the connection between the father and son even more than what was read in the story. ... In the end, Strout was killed because of the love that will never be broken between a father and son, and somewhat between a husband and wife. ... I think when Strout wasn't actually trying to run and Matt shot him anyways in the movie showed even more of this hatred and even ...

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There is love when Raul, who is Artho's son and is also Cristina's boyfriend dies in the war. Arthros, who is his father, risked his life to kill the king for his son. ... That is love because he didn't want his son to die because he really cares for him even though he didn't tell him that he was his father. ...

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He grows up with a considerably lazy father who was known throught his village as a failure. ... He vowed to hate what his father once loved, never borrow money, or stop working. ... He would often beat his oldest son, Nwoye, for being to sensitive. ... Okonkwo's gun had exploded and a piece of iron entered the heart of the dead man's sixteen year old son who had been dancing the traditional farewell to his father. ...

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The main characters in the movie are Lorenzo Anello, his son Calogero Anello, and Sonny. ... "A devoted father battles the local crime boss for the life of his son." ... Lorenzo is a father that believes you have to work to be a man. ... He had to live up to his father's and Sonny's standards. ... This brought problems between the father and son every time Calogero stepped a foot out of his home. ...

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• Grade Level: High School