Another thing that the author empathizes is how the mother endures abuse. Perdomo says, “She walked behind my drunken father… He beat my mami, stop beating my mami!” (Perdomo 2002). In just two single lines he exposes how
This somber nightmare from Beah shows the oppression he faces from the war as he has killed men by shooting, stabbing, and slicing their throats as well, just as the men around him do in the nightmare. In conclusion, the oppression of the
Throughout the characters of her first novel Wise blood, O’Connor depicts what kind of living has those who pass through spiritual suffering. Their spiritual dilemma will lead them to struggle from displacement during their lives. Beside the displacement suffering, their lives will end in a very tragic way. For example, Insoon Choi marks the main character of wise Blood Hazel Motes “a quintessential displaced person” (174) because he has spiritual suffering. Choi mentions that he was not only displaced from his native land, but also from the whole
Krak! is a collection of short stories written by Edwidge Danticat, who uses the symbol of water to illustrate the ideas that we can’t assume that Haitian experience is always negative. The Haitian people find refuge in water. Danticat demonstrates this in “Children of the Sea”, where the boyfriend boards a boat away from Haiti. As he writes in his journal, it becomes apparent that he will not survive due to the boat slowly sinking into the abyss that is the sea.
Even after being rescued and arriving back home, the suffering never left. “All he had left was his alcohol and his resentment, the emotion that, Jean Amery would write, “nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past”” (Hillenbrand 374).
When darkness consumes you and the pain becomes unbearable, you look to the light, to perseverance to guide you through the nightmare you face. In Ruta Sepetys’ Salt to the Sea, one of the protagonists, Emilia, faces a myriad of emotional and physical hardships throughout the novel. With calamitous tragedies and bone-chilling circumstances, what does Emilia do? Bruised and battered, she perseveres through her hardships, showing how much a person can endure when they persist. Sepetys takes the consequences of Emilia’s pain and emotional damage to new heights with her war-themed novel; as a result of this, perseverance is articulated amongst many other traits that this character possesses, showing how imperative of a quality it is.
One theme of Salt to the Sea is that fear, guilt, fate and shame affect everyone and causes them to do different things. Joana describes that “guilt is a hunter” (1) and that she is a “hostage to it.” (603) Every where so goes someone is loves dies or is taken from her. She lives with this guilt that she should have done more to save them, even though there is nothing more that she could really do.
The relationship Yunior has with his father has a profound effect on him. According to the Impact of Absent Father-Figure on Male Subjects explains that a man needs their parental support and advice in their life. The author, Jennifer Flood Eastin then explains and
He has a brother named Gabriel. He has excessive pride in comparison to his role in the family. He is unsatisfied with the
“Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” Nam Le’s “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice” is categorized in “ethnic story” narrated his Vietnamese life in order to meet an upcoming deadline even though finally he can’t submit his story because his father burns his work. Throughout the story, Nam the narrator talks about “the past” which he experiences when he was young including the recent experience that he has got from his father reunion. Not only does the story tell us about the past which, but it also shows a connection of time between past, present, and future. Likewise, the story shows the relationship between son and father which is the main theme of this story; and shows how the past is important and affect to them differently. Also, the story of the past could lead to the end of the story that can be interpreted like a prediction of the direction of their relationship in the future.
He doesn’t fit into their society and has no way of knowing how to fit in. He has no companion, except his mom, and was prone to anger and indiscriminate violence.
The role of the sea is key to the novel, acting as a force of nature – creator and destroyer – and a symbolic representation of greed.
The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything”. These two examples constitute part of his journey on the sea, by comparing things like the brotherhood between the fish and his two
He starts with his view of his father and how he does not have very high expectations of him. He claims to have had a different thought of what his father was going to be like and states that he had “expected a different father, one about seven feet tall with enough money to buy our entire barrio, but this one was average height, with and average face” (125). Without this thought, the audience would be able to see that he is unhappy with his father and therefore it is not necessary. Further, the reader can see without the additional thoughts and opinions that Yunior does not think highly of his father and therefore does not look up to him as a role model. He believes his father to only be a disciplinary figure in his life and asserts “he said little to us that wasn’t disciplinary, which didn’t surprise us” (125).
Being an orphan, he has trouble fitting in with the
