Again, she is in love with the idea of making her Father proud. When she was a child she took after him and did as he asked.
She learns to be proud. She keeps every emotion hidden. Her Father wants to be proud of his daughter, so he pushes her to be the way that he wants her to be. He doesn't want her to open up about her feelings because that would show weakness. He wants to make something of her. In both relationships, we see that Hagar keeps herself shut. She does not express any emotion. With her Father, she doesn't show emotion when he is whipping her because she thinks he will see her as weak. She does the same thing all throughout her relationship with Bram.
Not only does she keep her fear and sadness hidden, but she also supresses her euphoria as well. She does not want to express any of these things in fear of being weak.
Since she acts this way, she never understands her relationships with either her Father or Bram. She doesn't understand how she feels. She doesn't understand how anyone around her feels. And she doesn't understand her love. The two men that I choose to to explain realtionships with Hagar would be Marvin and John, John is the one that is spoiled by Hagar, she pampers him and totally looks after his every need.
Even though john is just a plain bad kid, always getting letters home from school sent by mail, for the teachers did not trust him to get them home and just never really doing anything to please his mother. Marvin on the other hand a kid that would do anything for his mother and almost worships her got nothing in return, they say that a mother never has a favourite but in this case that is bull. John is her favorite. Hagars relationship with her father seems very professional. There was no love between the two characters.
Hagars relationship with her father ended abruptly when she decided to marry Bram. Hagar was terrified of her father, although she never admitted it. She acted differently than her brothers in order to win her fathers attention. Hagars relationship with Bram seems odd.
They both like each other for seemingly opposite reasons. Hagar is attracted to Bram because his crude nature repulsed her father. Bram was attracted to Hagar because of her upper class status. I think that their marriage did not last because they married for the wrong reasons. Hagar essentially married Bram to spite her father. Hager's relationship with her father seems very empty. There is no love between her and her father, and it seems that she doesn't love him, but fears him.
Because Hagar didn't have a mother growing up, there was no on e to show her how to love other people. The relationship with her father just enforces this. When he hit her hands witha ruler and felt bad about it, he hugged her, but because she was not used to the affection, it just scares her.
Hagars relationship with her father is a big reason why she decides to marry Bram. Her father didn't aprove, and Hagar was tired of doing what he wanted her to do.
Her relationship with her father is not one of affection and love, which consecently makes her relationship with Bram lacking in love and affection.
Hagar's father never shower Hagar any love so she doesn't know how to treat Bram with love. Hagar is attracted to Bram because he is different from her. He does not have the same attitude that her father has and this makes him more appealing. It is the same for Bram. Hagar is above him, so naturally, he wants her. The relationship that Bram and Hagar have is more to defie her father and all social rankings more than it is love.
Post a Comment. Topic 9: Discuss the title of the novel and its i Topic 8: This novel has many elements of religion Tpoic 7: Discuss irony as you see it throughout t Topic 6: Most readers either like Hagar or strong Topic 5: Discuss Hagar's relationship with any tw Topic 4: Comment on this statement The elderly Response Pick an event or incident thus far in Chapter 6 Quotes.
The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 2. After three years back in Manawaka, Hagar met Brampton Shipley at a local dance.
Bram had a ruddy face, a thick black beard, and Some time later, Hagar received a marriage proposal from Bram , and told her father of her intent to accept. Jason was infuriated and forbade Hagar It was only when Bram ridiculed her corsets that she stopped wearing them and began growing heavier.
Hagar considers the chair She has no pictures of her ex-husband, Bram. Looking over the pictures, Hagar slips back into memory, and recalls how after her marriage Anytime Hagar and Bram went into town and saw her old friends at the store or in the street, Hagar retreats into memory, recalling her passionate but adversarial relationship with Bram.
Her deep, intense attraction to him was what forged their relationship and kept it going Chapter 3. When Hagar moved in with Bram the walls were bare, and over the years she put up only a few pictures Hagar is reminded of how she herself used to do the same to Bram during their marriage. Hagar is horrified at the thought that Doris must feel the same As she approaches the window, she sees a bearded man inside, and is reminded of Bram.
She wonders if Bram has somehow traveled through time. When the man looks up, though, Chapter 4. Bram , on the other hand, was often lazy, and only ever really worked hard during the Hagar often found herself disgusted by Bram and his friends, and when Bram was once yelled at by a mounted police officer Hagar thought from the moment she saw him that he was more like her than Bram. John was not as big as Marvin as he grew, but nor was he delicate Bram took to Marvin, but never to John—even when he tried to be kind towards John, Chapter 5.
John seemed both excited and reticent to leave—he suggested sneaking off without telling Bram , but Bram did not seem surprised, and did not ask Hagar to Although these opposing personalities ultimately attract them to each other, they become the main part of the wedge that drives them apart. Like Hagar, her father was also a socially conscience man and he refused to let his daughter marry a common farmer. Part of Hagar agreed to marry Bram simply to spite her father.
Hagar grows tired of the uncouth family dinners, of watching Bram blow his nose with his fingers, and of watching him subject their children to the same wild manner. When their opposing personalities stop being attractive to one another and it becomes clear that it is an emotionless and unhappy relationship, she takes her son John and leaves him.
He does not even try to stop her. Such an impersonal parting indicates that the relationship ended in failure and Hagar is ultimately responsible for this failure. She is the one that refuses to share emotion with him, she is the one who is overly critical of him, and she is the one who leaves him.
Hagar unquestionably loves John, and offers herself emotionally to him alone. She pours everything into John, leaving little love for anyone else in her life. Despite this lack of appreciation, Hagar continues to direct all of her energy into raising John. She is quite controlling, and attempts to run every part of his life — a remnant of her own relationship with her father. Although at first John appreciates her love, the relationship changes as he wishes to grow independent of her and begins to resent her.
She still cannot let go — trying to control his relationship with Arlene to no avail. The ultimate fate of this relationship is a failure. In spite of his mother, John goes drinking and takes up a dare to cross an old train bridge in his truck.
An unexpected freight train crashed into his truck and he dies shortly after with his mother by his side in the hospital. Since she has put everything into her love of him and he has died a vain death in spite of her, Hagar becomes the stone angel herself — emotionally blind and unfeeling, and unwilling to subject herself to the pain that love brings again.
The blame for the failure of this relationship can be placed on both parties: Hagar for placing unreasonably high expectations on John and overly controlling him, and John for rejecting that love and betraying the care she has placed in him in order to escape her love and be an individual.
Where her relationship with John was intimate, her relationship with Marvin is distant. Where she was openly loving and nurturing to John, she is closed off and sharply critical of Marvin. This different treatment of Marvin can be partly attributed to the circumstances surrounding her relationship with John.
Hagar has always favored John because he reminds her more of her father — whom she respects — than Marvin did. Hagar places so much of her emotions and love into John that it is unsurprising that Marvin is always found wanting in her eyes by comparison.
When he tries to impress her by cleaning the house, she criticizes him rather than appreciating him as she might have if it were John. When he prepares to go off to war, Hagar misses another key moment to connect with Marvin. She might not see him again and wants to warn him, to comfort him and to express her feelings toward him, but she cannot; she is afraid to reveal her emotions.
He wishes to express his feelings, but is also unable to do so because of his timidity. Indeed, the path their relationship takes is determined as much, if not more, by personalities than it is by circumstances.
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