On the other hand, the progression in McCarthy's story aligns with a father and his son's valiant quest to survive, which is almost constantly thwarted with new dangers. ... The immediate problems of the father and son are  hunger, thirst and coldness, which cause all of their faculties to be devoted to survival. Constantly claiming that "[he] is really hungry" (103), the boy confronts many dangerous situations with his father in exchange for warmth in the stomach. During the darkest hours of their travel, the father and the son share a conversation in which the boy asks &...

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She engages with a man, and they have a son together. However Genevieve did not love her son or the father. ... Herlin, Genevieve's husband and the father of their son , was mentioned for a few chapters throughout the book. He is what I would call the typical father. ... He wanted Genevieve to pity him- in the role of grief-stricken father."" ...

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Luis Asperri is an editor of a radical magazine, brought up by his wealthy haciendor father Don Vicente. ... His faithfulness was evident when he agreed to marry his cousin Trining at the request of his father to at least see his son settled down before he dies. ... His affiliation with Sipnget gave him a more general overview of the real situation at the same time being his father's son made him understand their point of view as well. ... ""Do not be sentimental," his father said. ... In My Brother, My Executioner similar to the dilemma of Luis, it made me confused to whether or not I sh...

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Choose a novel or play that depicts a conflict between a parent (or a parental figure) and a son or daughter. ... Furthermore, the journal entries signify a solution to Stephen's wavering feelings towards his father, Simon Dedalus. ... However, in the closing lines of the novel, Stephen finally frees himself from his father's influence. Stephen also resolves his emotional turmoil toward the family by describing his father endearingly, despite his many faults. ... However, as in the story of Daedalus and his son, Icarus, Stephen must take caution to find the perfect medium between com...

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At home however Amir's family shelters tow Hazara servents, a father and a son. Amir's Baba (dad) treats the servant's son Hassan as his own son. Amir's father shows his a different perspective on how to treat Hazaras. ... Amir goes back to Afghanistan to find a boy named Sohrab who is now an orphan and the son of Hassan. ... Amir feels that he is taking account for his previous actions by saving the son of Hassan. ...

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Anderson hated his father because of the lack of love shown to his mother and resented his father because of the humiliation and poverty that his father caused. ... The only presence of love in her at this time is focused on her beloved son, George Willard. Anderson writes She wanted to cry out with joy because of the words that had come from the lips of her son. ... Elizabeth is unable to articulate her feelings of interest and love to her son, and perpetuates the barrier of communication between them. ...

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The next narrator Faulkner introduces to the reader is Quentin's own father. ... The pair at one point in the novel find themselves discussing the life of Charles Bon, who is the son of Thomas and Eulalia whom he left presumably because Thomas learned she had black blood in her. ... They assumed that Eulalia was molding her son into an instrument to bring down the epitome of her hate, Thomas Sutpen. ... Shreve says, "I think in time Jim Bonds (son of Charles Bon's son, who is of black blood and ignorant) are going to conquer the western hemisphere," (378). ...

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Charlie is more interested in reading his fathers novels, which teach him about good beliefs and values. ... Their son, Jeffrey Lu, also best friends with Charlie, must deal with constant harassment and bullying at school as he is the racial outsider. ... The fact that he doesn't have the proper guidance that a child would receive from their parents- his father being a drunk alcoholic and his mother dead from a car accident. ... She put up with a sexual-abusive relationship with her father and when she turns to her mother for guidance, Mrs Wishart turns a blind eye to Laura's plea, l...

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As Guest stated in her biography, she had become deeply rooted in her characters, seeing them fail in this novel would be like seeing her three sons fail in their lives. ... The other focus is that of Calvin, Conrad's father, who has succumb to grief after losing his first son and almost losing his second ("Judith Guest" 63). ... Unlike his wife, he places all his attention on his broken son which drives their marriage closer to its death. ... Calvin and Conrad continually blame themselves for all that goes wrong in life and cannot open up about the death of their brother or so...

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Solar Stoms Angel has returned to Adams's Rib to find her roots. She is a 17-year-old girl in search of her family and most of all, who was her mother Hannah Wing (p 21). This is also a spiritual quest for Angel, yet that is only an observation that I became aware of after reading this novel Sol...

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In the first chapter, Mattie Michael, she refused to reveal the name of her unborn child's father to her parents, so to as refuge she lives with her friend, etta mae. ... But mattie then loses the house when her son, Basil, jumped bail after Mattie used their home as collateral for his bond. ... she has a live-in boyfriend, Eugene, and they have a child, Serena. shehas dreams of a family and of Eugene one day becoming a wonderful husband as well as a loving father. ... Questions I should ask about the novel 1. why does Mattie leave without telling basil's father that ...

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He grew up exploring the hills, forest and lake near his father's estate where he acquired that play so important a role in his fiction and non-fiction. ... As a son of an eighteenth-century rationalism Cooper believed that everything had its "place", a belief that stratified society and even government. ...

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Dewey Dell hated him because of him knowing about her pregnancy, and Jewel cursed when Darl asked him about his real father. "Your mother was a horse, but who was your father, Jewel?" ... Vardaman is the final son of Addie and Anze, and is often a victim under family circumstances. ...

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The novel Not Wanted On The Voyage, by Timothy Findley creates great insight into the world of today, although it is told in reference to the biblical times. Many of the events in this novel parallels to our fast pace, morally inept and deteriorating society.. The ...

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He enrolled at Cornell University in 1940, and, under pressure from his father and older brother, studied chemistry and biology. ... In the book, The Hoenikker family closely parallels Vonnegut's own family, consisting of an elder son who is a scientist, a tall middle daughter, and a younger son who joins Delta Upsilon. ...

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Crane was probably most influenced by his father who was a Methodist minister. 3. ... Crane was born into a family of 14 other children and the son of a Methodist preacher. He grew up in New Jersey were he had a pretty normal childhood except for the death of his father, 1 sister and one brother. ...

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After she dies, Frankenstein's father "resolved" it "necessary for the completion of" his "education for" him "to be made acquainted with other customs than those of" his "native country" and so he makes plans to study at Ingolstadt. ... Frankenstein grew up around beautiful people, his other and father adopted Elizabeth because of her looks, and Frankenstein even goes on to describe her later on as "bearing a celestial stamp on all her features", this gives the appearance of Elizabeth to be paralleled to that of an angel, because of this upbringing, Frankenstein is unnerved by the "devil...

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The opening sentences interlace the governmental strands of patriarchy, property and empire: "He- for there could be no doubt of his sex, though the fashion of the time did something to disguise it- was in the act of slicing at the head of a Moor which swung from the rafters Orlando's father, or perhaps his grandfather, had struck it from the shoulders of a vast pagan who had started up under the moon in the barbarian fields of Africa; and now it swung, gently, perpetually, in the attic rooms of the gigantic house of the lord who had slain him". ... Denying them is not an option for Wool...

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In magical realism you find the transformation of the common, into the awesome and the unreal as a part of everyday reality. According to Literature and Its Time, the term was first used by the German art critic Franz Roh in 1925, it described a manner of painting that "was not a mixture of realit...

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In Secret Daughter, when Sarla recalled the moment when her son Krishnan decided to go aboard and study, saying in the novel, "[s]ixteen family members travelled together, caravan style, in four separate cars to the airport 'Don't worry, papa. ... He made a terrible mistake, killing an innocent person under the illogical assumption that he was avenging his father's death. ...

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