... Merchant Navy as "Our Lady's" gates open, leaving every possession behind. During the film we see fathers who abandon their families, fathers who leave their child to grow alone and most solemnly fathers who disappear permanently through death. It was these types of "Leaving" that touched me, as all three sons had no positive influences on them, throughout the period when they needed it most ... . Fathers are role models to their sons, but what could you learn from a father who left you at the age of five, and was responsible for your mother taking her own life? To Nick it felt ... Boyl...

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• Grade Level: High School

... inadequacies, that he's not quite good enough, unable to follow in their footsteps. There's also a sense of guilt, that in adulthood he has not carried on the families trade and become what his father was, and his fathers father etc. "Between my finger and thumb the squat pen rests" As though to say, the biro pen is his tool, his means of earning a living ... the sail of a ship in full race, billowing out, symbolic of power, strength and speed. While the technicalities of the plough's shafts and furrows could be a referral again to his fathers strengths as he holds up the cart and his p...

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