Homesick is a memoir about growing up with a mentally ill immigrant mother in suburban Toronto. It is one family’s chronicle, a story of chaos, confusion and challenges in adversarial circumstances. The work is divided into three sections. Home is where the Heartache Lives deals with a childhood spent witnessing an acrimonious arranged marriage. You Can’t Go Home Again covers the twenty years the narrator spent living in British Columbia while attempting to maintain a distance from the immediate family. Homesick details the narrator’s return to Toronto. Themes of home, language and cultural identity are explored alongside the experience of what it means to witness a devastating disease like schizophrenia and what it feels like to endure a chronically ill family membe
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Parents should never lie to their children even if it is about a difficult subject such as death financial problems or divorce because It will cause the parent to tell more lies to keep the story going. there is a saying that goes, “what a web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Each tiny lie may need additional lies to keep the painful truth from your child until you find yourself in a web of dishonesty that is very hard to get out of without causing more pain than you were first trying to protect your child from. Parents who teach their child that honesty is always the best policy should be modeling it to themselves as well.Eventually the child will find out the truth and discover that not only was the truth kept from his or her, but there was deception involved. Whether the truth comes out because the lies became too great or because he or she has simply gotten older and discovered the truth on his or her own, their relationship with you will be damaged. She will feel pain and disconnection from you. Though most pain and disconnection can eventually be repaired, it can take years to rebuild.It teaches the child that little lies are ok. This belief will eventually lead to the belief that bigger lies are also ok, until all truth is negotiable. When a child eventually discovers that mom and dad are frequently telling her small untruths here and there, she will learn to do the same. At first these lies will start out small, and may even seem “cute” to her parents. Unfortunately, soon these lies will begin to snowball, getting bigger and bigger. Eventually she will be lying about everything and believing she is doing no different than her parents.
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ExplanIn "Rip Van Winkle," Washington Irving uses language that differs between its literal meaning and the actual message being communicated. For example, Irving describes a “curtain lecture” as “worth all the sermons in the world for teaching the virtues of patience and long-suffering.”
While this description literally means that when Dame Van Winkle is lecturing her husband, it teaches him patience, Irving’s real message is that this type of nagging is not valuable at all.
The story implies that Rip’s wife often lectures and nags him:
“… his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and everything he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence.”
The word “eloquence” usually describes speeches, poetry, and other well-crafted writing. Irving uses it ironically in the story to describe Rip’s wife’s lectures, as they are not beautiful or well-written prose.
In this way, Washington Irving uses humor and irony to show the relationship between Rip and his wife.ation:
