Chris Gardner Behavior

“My parents never hurt me, I said. I got the cuts and bruises playing outside and the burns from cooking hot dogs.” Walls. This shows that the parents weren’t abusive and bad parents at all and that the kids just play rough and that was hard for people to believe because the kids were at the hospital so often.This shows that the parents aren't being bad parents and that they are safe and the kids just go a little hard on their bodies. “When dad wasn’t telling you all about all the amazing things he had already done, he was telling us about the wondrous things he was going to do. Like, Build the Glass Castle.” This Shows that the dad had an interest in the kids and that he isn’t abusing or harming them and that's what makes a good parent is that the parent cares about their

In 1971 Coach Herman Boone replaced a popular, successful white coach at T.C. Williams High School in Alexandria, Virginia, in that community's effort to finally integrate its schools. The school and community were angrily divided by the federal integration order, and the volatility of the situation was heightened by the abrupt demotion of Coach Yoast and Boone's promotion to Head Coach. In this movie Coach Boone is on a mission to try to get the white and black players to unite and play together as a team. He wanted the two races to become a team. Around that time, there was a lot of racism and a lot of schools were segregated, so the players obviously didn't get along with each other at first. A lot changed when Boone replaced Yoast

Parenting played a big role in shaping the two boys lives. Having a parental mentor is important because they assist and guide children to take the right decisions about their lives. The author had his two parents at the beginning of his life. Also, the author’s parents, especially his mother, tried to raise him in an effective way wanting him to know the right from wrong at an early age. “No mommy loves you, like I love you, she just wants you to do the right thing” (Moore 11). This quote was a live example of the author’s life with his parents. It reflected the different ways his parents used to teach him “the right thing.” Though his mother was upset from his action toward his sister, his father

He comes from what Gordy describes as a ?bad family?, and believes himself to be bad too. His self-fulfilling prophecy would be to turn out as bad as everyone in town believes that he will. Gordy sees the good in him, and pushes him to be more than Chris perceives he is capable of being. Chris is the group leader. The others in the group value his opinion, and he is the protector. He sticks up for the rest of the boys, and they look up to him. One example of this is when Ace, an older, bullying local, steals Gordy?s hat. He verbally attacks the older bully, on behalf of Gordy. His presenting self is confident, independent, and tough. Inwardly, or his perceived self, is incapable, and destined to become nothing, primarily caused by the locals, and his family continually reminding him that he comes from a family of trouble, so he must trouble too.

The boy is very warm-hearted and appears to struggle to understand that danger could occur at any moment, whilst his father knows a lot more about what some people, “the bad guys”, do in order to survive. It could be seen that the child is very naive and therefore trusts others more than his father. However his trust in others teaches his father a valuable lesson; that not everyone is a “bad guy”. For instance when the pair come across Ely, the father is wary about him but his son is adamant that they give him a tin of food. This shows to readers that the boy has faith unlike his father. Another example is when the son sees the little boy; he begs his father to go back and help him and asks if he can go with them. I believe that he wants to help others as

This is an influential point for both book and movie because it has the effect of showing how both mothers are in and out of their child’s life but yet the father reminds to keep everything together. Basing character tendencies on how the mothers leave and the main character (father) with stay. Yet the movie does not detail this information but is evident to the abandonment of his actual wife at one point in the film. In the film, the wife leaves at the one-hour mark (film time). The film keeps their focus off the wife/mother to put more power in the struggle of Gardner’s life as a father. In contrast, the film “The Pursuit of Happyness” featured the bigger picture of the actual story. More so the theme that Chris Gardner conveyed in the book. The film goes from struggling married couple with a son, to a struggling single father chasing the ultimate dream of successfulness. The difference from the book is that Chris Gardner and his wife were together on and off. They struggle to make the relationship work but have differences in what they want to pursue.

For example, Bailey, the father of the family, shows that he does not care too much about anything and he treats his mother with much disrespect,

The first time where I was able to see the father actually care is when his wife gets a letter in the mail asking them to register their son into a special needs program to try and get him ready for kindergarten since he will not be able to progress as quickly as the other children in class. But his mom had a very hard time letting go of her baby bay. He still was only 3 years old but that’s when he needed to start learning how to communicate so that he can be ready for kindergarten. Mr. Clines signs the paper right away but his wife is still having a hard time excepting sending her son to school so early when she could

The factors that Moore highlights in Part One include , no father figures, new environments and new friends. At early ages, both boys did not have a father around to help guide them. The author Wes lost his father at the age of three and the other Wes never met his father. However, the Other Wes had a brother that he looked up too while the author had only two sisters and his mother. In Chapter 1, Moore writes, “I was holding my uncle Vin’s hand when I looked into the casket and asked my father, ‘Daddy, are you going to come with us?’.” In other words, Moore did not understand that his father passed away, thus leaving him without the fatherly guidance every boy needs. As with the other Wes, he had his brother Tony to look up too but Tony wanted his brother to be nothing like him. In Chapter 2, Moore writes, “He loved his brother but had learned to ignore his occasional ‘do as I say, not as I do’ tirades.” Moore is basically stating that Tony wanted his brother to have a better life than

There was nothing more daring than being alone in a barren wasteland, without a cellphone, money, and even extra food supplies for the road. Chris McCandless, an extreme risk taker, believes that risk taking is necessary to outgrow the “shell” everyone is entrapped within because living on the edge allows characteristics to be built. Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild is a novel that reveals the adventure, journey, and risk taking of Chris McCandless, who is similar to Guy Montag, a protagonist in Fahrenheit 451, and Odysseus, also a protagonist in The Odyssey, who all feature a comparable attribute; that of which is risk taking. At the hand of these characters possessing courageous features believing that “it is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found,” arguably portraying that risk taking is what allows courageous features to become expressed freely (Krakauer, Into the Wild).

Billie, Chris’s mother, was also very successful in her days. Chris and his little sister, Carine, were really close. Loren Johnson, Billie’s father and Chris’s grandfather, and Chris had similar personalities and ways of approaching situations. Chris is successful in his own way by graduating from Emory University in Georgia. Chris’s personal life and childhood represent a normal life of an average person, which shows how Chris is not a lunatic or a sociopath.

Later, Moore as Allen iverson's agent, has been in the side to support him. Moore said: "I don't have my own child, so Iverson like a son to me." Chapter three, Allen Iverson is a quiet good students. As a professional player, Iverson is very active, and often dancing, singing and joking in public. But in the classroom, Allen Iverson is a quiet boy.

For instance, within the primary dysfunctional family, many relationships are developed, which include two unbearable children, a power hungry dad, a hectic wife tending to her baby, and an unendurable grandmother. These relationships bring out other dynamics within the characters and the family (Lambert 2009). For instance, although both the father and grandmother are strict in ensuring that the children be respectful, on their part, they do not set an example that can be emulated within the family. First, the grandmother advises her grandchildren to be respectful, and then she goes ahead, making a profane racially prejudiced remark almost immediately (McCann, Jr 2011). At the same time, the head of the family—the father of the children, Bailey, requests the children to conduct themselves accordingly. However, confronted by a tense situation, Bailey loses his temper and threatens the family telling them that if they did not shut up, they would not go anywhere (Katharina 4).

However, being a father as a single parent like Chris gives him the enthusiasm to do his best and replace his wife's role to have a better life with his son. Yet, this decreases the happiness that Gardner possesses. According to Scott Coltrane, a sociologist at the University of California, points out that "Father's style of parenting has changed too. Fathers are beginning to look more like mothers" (qtd. in Cullen and Grossman). Before Linda leaves the family, she works double shifts to make more money to afford the living expenses and to help her husband. So Chris is the one who takes more care of their son than the mother, Linda. Gardner seems to be happier being close to his son. There are many scenes in the movie that show how Gardner and Christopher are happy of being together. Nonetheless, there is only one scene that Christopher not even misses his mother; instead he asks "did mom leave because of me?" (The Pursuit of Happyness). This indicates that Gardner does a great job of being a single parent that makes his son, not remembering his mother.