I believe that I’m not exactly like William Bloom. Throughout the movie Big Fish, one of the main characters William Bloom goes through a dynamic change while trying to understand his father. At first, he explains that during his childhood that his father has not been around a lot, and he never had a personal connection with his father. As a grown-up, he spent a lot of time resenting his father and being accusatory about the stories he shared. Will's father had become very ill, and he realized that some of the stories his father told were true when he found evidence of these events. Will has spent so much time trying to find out the truth about his father in hopes of becoming a better father to his future kids. When his father passed away it …show more content…
My grandparents are older now, and I don’t know how much longer they have. My father is now regretting his decision of creating distance between himself and his family. I hope that my father can connect with his parents before the last moments like William Bloom. In contrast to my father, my mother has a good relationship with her parents and so do I. My mother is very strict, and I rarely get stories about her life when she was younger. I find it hard to have a conversation with her sometimes because I never know if she will be able to relate to me. I don’t believe that my mother and Will are very similar as she doesn't want me to connect with her about her past. With the insights from the movie from William Bloom, my father and mother, I have taken away the importance of trying to change the way I see things, so the things I see will change. Instead of always looking at someone’s actions in a negative light I want to try to understand where they are coming from. When I get older and start my own family I want my children to understand me and have a good relationship with them as well as respecting
My grandmother never knew her grandparents. They had all passed before she ever got the opportunity to meet them and converse about their family’s history. She regrets not getting to see her grandparents and says that that is the reason she tries to be the best grandmother she can
The audience is likely to be convinced by the author's rhetorical approach because she develops credibility since she has experience on how it feels not being able to connect with a parent but at the end of the day being able to perceive through the challenge and eventually getting along with her father and no longer seeing him as an adversary but more as an accomplice with her father. 2) The tone of the author is appropriate to the audience because she is enthusiastic about trying to get along with her father even though they are almost exact opposites. In the story you never hear the main character say you know what I give up on my father we are never going to get along I hate my life. No but what the main character does do is that she gets out of her way to try to have a deeper relationship with her father.
As someone grows up, sometimes people grow up to act like their parents. A good example of this is found in the novel called Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller. In the book, there is a character named Willy and his son named Biff. They both hate each other because they see themselves in each other. There are three traits that they don’t like, the fact that they are both bums, they hate the city and they what a farm, but they can’t.
(219) Will asks why he killed him, to which Mikey says he didn’t know he wasn’t the right guy, because it had to be Gee. Will is disappointed in his dad for being a “misser” and not being like he
Will is trying to follow these rules, but he runs into problems when people give him reasons not to. Mikey Holloman (dad) has the biggest impact with stating important things; for example, he makes Will question if he has the right person; what if someone comes for him after killing this guy? Will he be able to handle it? Mikey also uses his own experience for getting revenge for his brother’s murder; he tells Will how he was 100% sure he had the right person but ended up killing an innocent person. They
Will’s brother Shawn broke down crying which showed Will that it is okay to break the rules and that getting revenge isn't the best choice because of its many outcomes and possibilities. Will's father, Mikey Holloman, is one of the influences in his life on why he won't get revenge on his brother's death. Will's father enters the elevator with everyone else. He talks about how Uncle Mark
Will’s dad had grown up on rules and in those rules the way you show respect and the only way to show the hurt you feel is by killing the killer; except, he
In life difficulties may arise, but an “instructive eye” of a “tender parent” is a push needed in everyone’s life. Abigail Adams believed, when she wrote a letter to her son, that difficulties are needed to succeed. She offers a motherly hand to her son to not repent his voyage to France and continue down the path he is going. She uses forms of rhetoric like pathos, metaphors, and allusions to give her son a much needed push in his quest to success.
Before the death of Shawn, he told Will the story of how their dad “was killed for killing the man who killed our uncle” (Reynolds, 2017, pg 203). This evidence illustrates Mikey's downfall as analogous to the situation Will is currently in. Will is in pursuit of revenge against Riggs, his brother's alleged murderer. Based on Mikey’s path, Will’s quest for revenge will eventually lead to his demise. It is a valuable lesson for Will as he battles the cycle of revenge.
Will’s father then tells Will that he finds out the person he shot wasn’t the person that killed Uncle Mark, but just some guy that acted all tough. He shot the wrong person, which might also explain why he felt extremely guilty after killing Gee. As a result, Will states “staring at my father who/wasn't my father at all./At least not like I had imagined him./A man who moved with precision,/patience, purpose,/not no willy-nilly/buck-bucking off/at randoms/at random./Spent my whole damn life/missing a misser./That disappointed
Will father teaching his son that he just met a valuable lesson. Will’s father held at gun point by his father because from his father experiences of shooting the wrong person he does not want his son to make the same mistake. A prime example of selective memory is when Will said “the day before yesterday, when Shawn died, the moon was off. Somebody told me once a month the moon blacks out and becomes new and the next night be back to normal”(Reynolds 22). This quote shows that will select the memory from the day that his older brother died because he said the moon was shut off.
You’re embarrassing yourself, Dad. You just don’t see it.” After Will and Edward’s argument, they did not speak to each other for three years. Edward talks to the audience telling them that all his father’s stories
Stories are the foundation of relationships. They represent the shared lessons, the memories, and the feelings between people. But often times, those stories are mistakenly left unspoken; often times, the weight of the impending future mutes the stories, and what remains is nothing more than self-destructive questions and emotions that “add up to silence” (Lee. 23). In “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, Lee uses economic imagery of the transient present and the inevitable and fear-igniting future, a third person omniscient point of view that shifts between the father’s and son’s perspective and between the present and future, and emotional diction to depict the undying love between a father and a son shadowed by the fear of change and to illuminate the damage caused by silence and the differences between childhood and adulthood perception. “A Story” is essentially a pencil sketch of the juxtaposition between the father’s biggest fear and the beautiful present he is unable to enjoy.
Edward Bloom in Daniel Wallace’s novel, Big Fish, he is portrayed as a very peculiar character with many different characteristics. Bloom’s son, William, is telling the story for his father’s adventures and about the people; he meets along the way. He tells his son all the vicissitudes about his life mixed in with a few exaggerations. All while Bloom is on his death bed with his son by his side. Many people that Bloom meets on his adventures would each describe him a little differently.
After recalling a broken childhood, Sedaris looks back and realizes that there were many things he did not understand as a child. The treatment and attitude of his mother have helped Sedaris to understand that some things are just too complicated, and that the solution to those issues is not a single step. Being able to realize this helped to justify his mother’s attitude towards him and his siblings, confirming that a family is still a family despite the challenges along the way. In order to connect and understand the people around us, a person must first look past the appearance of someone and dig deeper, as there is more to a person than just what they choose to