Analysis: Four Bruises Of Love From The Wind

Four Bruises of Love from the Wind
“We cannot control the wind, but we can direct the sail” (Anonymous). We depend on the wind, because we cannot sail without it guiding us. However, every time the wind blows the sailboat off course, there is resentment because we want to be in control of the boat. We feel helpless as there is an external force we depend on that has more control of our lives than ourselves. The impact from every individual decisions greatly impacts those that depend on him, in the sense that they feel as if they have no power in the decision that changed their life. There are lasting affects on those that depend on him. William and my father had two people depending on him, when they both made a decision which those two people
In a household, society views the father as the provider. In this situation, Bette and the son both depend on William to financially support them. There was resentment over him changing his profession from an office job to be a painter. Bette “squeezed [her son’s] arm unintentionally hard” letting the boy feel her “fury”. This proves that she was angry because in her opinion, William had selfishly decided to leave a source of income. The fact that the first thing Bette talks to William about is the “leak in the back kitchen roof” and “a tear in the knee of [the son’s] pants” points towards the fact that they are a middle-class family with an old run-down house. Bette is under the opinion that painting is not as reliable as an office job, since there is no regular salary for a painter. There will be lots of days of
I was only four years old, when he chose to move to Canada. My mother was happy living close to her family and feared the idea of leaving home for a foreign place. “She didn’t understand” why he wanted to leave. Yet, of course, she had to go with him with little choice in the matter like Bette. They now live oceans apart from their family, isolated. They had to spend many difficult days doing laborious work so they can provide for us. The “tear” is still present in my family, as I no longer see “a special glimmering of light in [my mother’s] eyes”, after being separated from her family and friends. My father’s decision has altered so many lives yet we kept sailing. I can relate to William who is so much like my father, since they were both only looking for opportunities to improve their lives. Bette and the son are also, similar to my mother, in the sense that they all felt deprived of the right to choose where their boat sails, since the wind keeps blowing them off