In ?My Father?s Life? by Raymond Carver I learned that Raymond Jr is an alcoholic, has the same name as his father, and an inability to settle. These are all traits that he has in common with his father. I will further discuss the things that children learn from their parents and take with them throughout their adulthood. In the beginning of the story we are told of the common names between Raymond and his father. I got the impression that he did not like having the same name as his father. I base this assumption that he doesn?t like having the same name as his dad on when he said: ?I hated the ?Junior? part?. Another reason I say he didn?t like having the same name as his dad is when he put this information in his story: ?When my wife answered the phone, my mother blurted out, ?Raymond?s dead!? For a moment, my wife thought my mother was telling her that I was dead. Then my mother made it clear which Raymond she was talking about.? Why would Raymond include this in his story unless he disliked it. I think this is a way of inadvertently expressing his dislike for having the same name. Raymond was always confused with his father. I think he didn?t want to be like his father. During his childhood and later on in life he would strive to be his own person.
Raymond?s father was an alcoholic, and he was an alcoholic even before Raymond was born. His mother met Raymond?s father coming out of a tavern. I think Raymond?s drinking problem was inherited. Raymond would always see his father drunk, and he even tried some of his father?s liquor when he was younger. Raymond?s father?s death was even caused by his drinking problem. When a child grows up in an environment like that it is more than likely the child will also have a drinking problem. Raymond had a drinking problem, we find this out when he says: ?at a time when I found myself, like my dad, having trouble with alcohol.? Raymond took to alcohol to escape the problems of his life just like his father did. I think the alcohol made dealing with life easier for Raymond and his father. Raymond and his father both moved a lot. Raymond?s father moved around looking for work. Raymond?s dad seemed like he had to be the provider but at the same time became bored quickly and that?s why he moved so much. His constant moving is made evident by this statement: ?But I think, in the main, that my dad had grown restless and simply wanted to try his luck elsewhere. Things had gotten a little to predictable for him in Yakima?.
The Homework on Fathers Day Dad Told Article
Eight years ago is when I wrote a paper that not only meant a lot to me but also meant a lot to my dad. Father's day there was a contest in the local newspaper. To enter the contest you had to write a two hundred-word essay about what your father meant to you. If you won the contest you got your essay put in the front page of the newspaper on fathers day along with a picture and an article written ...
Unlike Raymond?s father he did not move around from boredom, but I think he moved around so he could support his family, this is made evident when he say?s: ?During those years I was trying to raise my own family and earn a living. But one thing and another, we found ourselves having to move a lot.? Raymond and his father are alike in these ways. The only time that I could see any feeling from Raymond was when his father died. Raymond had unresolved issues with his father. Raymond was not able to tell his father these things or even say goodbye before his father died. Raymond took to examining old pictures of his father to try to figure out who he really was. Raymond would take these picture with him from move to move until one move he lost them. The loss of the picture may symbolize closure on his father and his death. One picture in particular he tried to remember by writing a poem called ?October.? October was not the month that his father had died, but it is a dreary month and he did not want to remember his father?s death in June. Raymond realized that his father was not as strong and brave as he portrayed himself. Raymond?s father in fact was kind of helpless and weak. It took years for Raymond to figure out that his father wanted to be strong for his family and he wanted this to carry on to his son. The Poem ?October? was Raymond?s way of thanking his father for who is was and that even though it wasn?t all good things Raymond learned from his father it was important to him. The poem was Raymond?s goodbye and I love you to his father, he final closure on his father?s life and death.
The Term Paper on This Boys Life Move In With Dwight
Dwight and Caroline's relationship can be characterized into three stages. From its inception Jack and Caroline had a relationship based on infatuation alone. Their relationship consisted of passion alone for each other. Caroline was sexually attracted to Dwight, as was he to her. Caroline was infatuated with the person Dwight appeared to be. She was turned on that he was nice and charming and ...
At the end of ?My Father?s Life? I think Raymond finally was able to put some closure on the death of his father and I think Raymond finally was able to realize that he is his own person. During Raymond?s childhood and adult life he tried to make himself different from his father. When his father died he realized that he was different from his father, his life would not lead the path that his father?s did. In ?The Sutton Pie Safe? by Pinckney Benedict Cates learns behaviors from his father like Raymond Carver did. For example, the statement: ?When I looked at my dad, he seemed embarrassed to have been caught without a shirt.? and ?I took her hand, shook it, realized I probably wasn?t supposed to shake a lady?s hand. I pulled back, noticed the grime under my fingernails, the dust on the backs of my hands.? Meeting Mrs. Hanson embarrassed both Cates and his father she made them both feel self-conscious. This is an example of Cates learning something for his dad. Cates father wants to do things with him. When Cates father tries to make him a snake skin belt he is trying to do the things that his own father did with him when he was young. I think Cates father learned from his own father and wants to share that with his own son.
When Mrs. Hanson offered to buy the Sutton pie safe Cates father became angry. Cates sees how important this pie safe is to his dad because; his own parents gave it to him. In turn Cates tells his mother: ?Didn?t that belong to Granddad?? Cates father did not win, and the pie safe was sold. Cates feels the same as his father does when the pie safe is sold. He knows how his father feels and feels what his father feels. I linked ?My Father?s Life? by Raymond Carver and ?The Sutton Pie? Safe by Pinckney Benedict because of a few similarities. Both stories deal with a father and son learning different behaviors from each other. In each story the narrators are trying to explain their life with their father and how their fathers have shaped their lives.
The Essay on My Father’s Life by Raymond Carver
The last paragraph of this essay is my favorite by far, “…in their beautiful voices out of my childhood. Raymond. ” The author of this story made it so tangible the dislike Raymond Jr. had for his birth name that it felt like a true revelation when the character finally embraced it. To hear his father’s name echo as his own name and to enjoy it leaves the reader with the same sense of happiness. ...
