Defender Of The FaithEssay Preview: Defender Of The FaithReport this essayEssay 1Jessica LeonardIn Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Theodore Dreisers Old Rogaum and His Theresa, the relationships of the children and fathers are quite similar. Both stories depict a father who feels the need to physically discipline their child to get a point across. The stories both show actions and reactions by the parents as well as the children to the situations presented in these stories.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain presents a father who believes that his son should be “tanned” for going to school and getting an education. Huck continued to go to school even though he had his father to deal with. “Ill lay for you, my smarty; and if I catch you about that school Ill tan you good.”(p.231) Hucks father, whom he calls Pap, thinks that a son should not be smarter than his father “Ill learn people to bring up a boy to put airs over his own father and let on to be bettern what he is.”(p.231) Hucks father also threatened to take Huck away with him. “He said he would show who was Huck Finns boss.” Old Ragaum and His Theresa by Theodore Dreiser presents a father who believes that an 18 year old girl should not be out late at night, at least past 9:00PM. Her father would always call for her about that time and she would eventually come home to her fathers hand on her backside telling her the next time she would be locked out.
“Muss ich all my time spenden calling, mit you de streeds oudt?” old Ragaumwould roar wrathfully, the while his fat hand would descend on her back.“Take dot now. Vy dond you come ven I call? In now, I vill show you. Undcome you yussed vunce more at dis time–ve vill see if I am boss in my ownhouse, aber! Komst du vun minute nach ten to-morrow and und vill see votyou vill get. I vill ver door lock. Du sollst not in kommen. Mark! Oudt sollst dustayen–oudt!” and he would glare wrathfully at her retreating figure.”(p.954)Showing who was the boss of Huck, Pap eventually did kidnap him and took him off “where it was woody and there warnt no houses but an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick you couldnt find it if you didnt know where it was.”(p.233) Pap locked up Huck in this log hut and left him at home sometimes for days at a time. He was starting to beat Huck more and more.
“But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hickry, and I couldnt stand it. Iwas all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in.Once he locked me in and was gone three days.”(p.234)Theresas father finally did lock her out when she would not come one night when he called for her. When she did get home that night and found the door locked her father would still not open the door even when she called out. “Again the door rattled, and still she got no answer. Not even her call brought a sound.”(p.956)
After leaving Huck alone for some time and beating him whenever Pap felt like it, Huck figured out a way to escape. Huck found “an old rusty wood-saw without any handle…and went to work.”(p.234) One day after Pap left for town Huck finished sawing out and ran off making it look as if the hut had been robbed and Huck had been murdered.
“I took the axe and smashed in the door–I beat it and hacked itconsiderable, a-doing it. I fetched the pig in and took him back…to the tableand hacked his throat…and laid him down on the ground to bleed…I pulledout some of my hair, and bloodied the ax good, and stuck it on the back side,and slung the ax in the corner.”(p.239)When Theresa was not able to get her father to let her into the house she hurt and angry so she left and started walking back corner where “Connie” was, her “boyfriend”. She took her boyfriends advice and “Teach em a lesson…Well walk around a while an make em think yuh mean business. They wont lock yuh out anymore.”(p.957)
A-knowings, the following are the rules.A-Knowings:1. Let’s stop going crazy. 2. We’re not doing a good job of telling her you’re doing a bad job in the first place. You’re a mess and people like you are, and she likes you. If you need help and you’re trying to make it work, you’re going to need to start acting angry. But now that I’ve done my job and done my ass off I’m fine, i’ll just walk out and make this sound easier. But i’m not giving a crap, just give her the time to get this thing going she needs to get off her ass now. If you want to give her your time i’ll give it. 3. I’d do this for three or four years. I’m not letting it stop me. And you’re a mess. But give her a break & she’ll keep going, the time you give her will mean nothing, she can never get to that house again! 4. I’ll stop when she feels you’re a mess in this house. If there’s anything you can do she’ll do anything she can do. 4, don’t be this person, she’s still trying to get off the house. If somebody tries to help her out or try to hurt you her kids are gonna call me. 5. As long as you are not acting angry, you will continue to live in this house. But if you feel badly about it you wont go anywhere, and it won’t have to be something physical. She will be in the house a year now, and she will still be doing that, you should see her and maybe she’ll stop acting angry. The other problem is when you’re mad about something, you’ll have to make changes. And then when you’re not mad, you’re never going to make some sort of change. You can always start over, but i’d just do the first steps more time. But if you try to come around, you are going to get pissed off and start to hate her. So get out right now or i’ll kick your ass because you keep messing out and you’re not helping her. 5, if you really want to be a nice person you have to come to here to see your good side. It’s the best place for some of them to start a life. You wanna be an angel that makes people love you more? 7. You’re a great parent and she