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How is the father in the short film characterised? Choose 1 parent from a short story that you have studied, provide a comparison of them. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations. 

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How is the father in the short film characterised? Choose 1 parent from a short story that you have studied, provide a comparison of them. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations. 

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How is the father in the short film characterised? Choose 1 parent from a short story that you have studied, provide a comparison of them. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations. 

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How is the father in the short film characterised? Choose 1 parent from a short story that you have studied, provide a comparison of them. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations. 

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How is the father in the short film characterised? Choose 1 parent from a short story that you have studied, provide a comparison of them. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations. 

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How is the father in the short film characterised? Choose 1 parent from a short story that you have studied, provide a comparison of them. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations. 

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How is relationship between the father and his son in “Popiah “portrayed? Compare it with another parent-child relationship in a short story that you have studied. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations.

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How is relationship between the father and his son in “Popiah “portrayed? Compare it with another parent-child relationship in a short story that you have studied. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations.

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How is relationship between the father and his son in “Popiah “portrayed? Compare it with another parent-child relationship in a short story that you have studied. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations.

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How is relationship between the father and his son in “Popiah “portrayed? Compare it with another parent-child relationship in a short story that you have studied. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations.

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How is relationship between the father and his son in “Popiah “portrayed? Compare it with another parent-child relationship in a short story that you have studied. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations.

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How is relationship between the father and his son in “Popiah “portrayed? Compare it with another parent-child relationship in a short story that you have studied. Substantiate your response with evidence and explanations.

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The relationship between father and son in “Popiah” is cold and distant. This is evidenced by the son not understanding the true significance of why the father wanted to make the popiah and preparing the ingredients himself instead of just buying from the market even though he had the money to do so. Additionally, the son is very distracted with his phone and not focused when helping to prepare the ingredients. He was preparing the ingredients just for the sake of doing it, not because he had the genuine heart and intention to help. When all the father did was simply a short reprimanding that the son’s heart and mind was not focusing while preparing the ingredients, the son just got mad instantly and left. Lastly, when the relatives came, the son did not give the father face and was displaying a tight tension between them. He did not communicate with the relatives much and did not help in the wrapping of the popiah. All of these shows that the son does not have a strong bond with his father, but instead had a cold and distant relationship with him until the end where he understood his father’s intentions. The son was also displeased with his father’s character and mind in the sense that he did not want to move out of the kampong because of the deep memories he had there as well of the significance of it as his late father left the house for him. The son found that his father was growing more stubborn as he ages, making it harder for the son to have a peaceful and loving relationship with him. As the mother had passed on already, the son now only has a single parent. However, in this case that did not improve their relationship with each other. In summary, the son’s relationship with his father was cold and distant until the end where he matured and understood his father’s intention.

In contrast to grasshoppers, the parent and child relationship there is intimate and loving. The mother shows her love for her son in many ways. Although they are not well to do and do not have a father, the mother still tries her best to provide the best for her son. Even though her leg is permanently injured due to abuse from her husband in the past, she still works very hard for long hours a day. The son would often go to the coffee shop to help his mother without being asked to do so. Even with the lack of a father and the fact that the son was brought up single-handedly by the mother from young, they still have a very intimate relationship and the mother still loves her son very much. They appreciate each other’s presence and support for each other.

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The relationship between father and son in “Popiah” was tensed and was filled with resentment initially. However, the dispute was amicably resolved later on.

This is evidenced by the short film where the son persisted on using his phone and disregarded his father’s comments on his addiction. He did not bother much about his father’s feelings and instead let distractions pull their relationship even more distant. When his auntie came over to discuss this disruption in the family with him, he argued that her opinions were nonsense as “she had not experienced being his child”. This implies that the son felt that he was given ill treatment by the eldest brother as he was his son. He thought that this treatment was unreasonable and that no one else would understand him. Therefore, he resented his father and disagreed with his habit of making popiahs annually. His auntie then stepped out of the room, feeling hurt by his words. During the prayer, the family expressed their tribute and respect to their deceased father. Seeing this, the son then reflected on his words and took the point of view of his father and understood why he would make popiahs annually instead of simply going for a buffet. He remembered that his father had said that it was the skin that binds the popiah together. This implies that it was the relationship the family shared and how close they were that mattered, not what they possessed. The son felt immensely guilty.

Eventually, the son expressed his understanding of his father’s “popiah-making” habits by sitting down and making some popiah for him to eat. This implied that the son had given in to this tradition and hopes to seek his father’s forgiveness for being stubborn at the start. Hence, there is an evident change in the relationship after the son reconciles with his father.

In contrast, the parent-child relationship in Sredni Vashtar only consisted of  hatred throughout the story.

This is evidenced by Conradin wishing that Mrs De Ropp were dead countless times throughout the story. He even went so far as to pray for her demise at the one thing he believed was god, his ferret. Conradin would be confined in his room by Mrs De Ropp as she wanted him to suffer by himself, with only his imagination to accompany him. Mrs De Ropp would spite Conradin by selling his chicken. She would then rub salt on his wound by making him his favourite breakfast. She hoped that he would be unsatisfied with his breakfast and continue sulking over the loss of his chicken. Conradin would pray daily that his “god”, Sredni Vashtar would brutally mutilate Mrs De Ropp so that he would have a sense of freedom. Mrs De Ropp knew that Conradin was hiding something from her, she wished to get rid of anything that served as entertainment or enjoyment for Conradin. She snatched the keys and barged into the backyard. Conradin stood in the house, hoping every second that Sredni Vashtar would fend for itself and kill Mrs De Ropp. This eventually came to be when Mrs De Ropp went to check on the ferret and was killed by it. Conradin’s celebration at her demise also further exemplifies the extent of his hatred. Both parties made no attempt to reconcile their relationship and instead seethed at the thought of each other day by day, but this time only served to escalate the emotional pain that Mrs De Ropp. had inflicted on Conradin

The relationship between Conradin and his guardian is not very similar to that of the parent child relation in popiah. The relationship in Popiah is simply the child resenting his parent for a short amount of time. In contrast, the relationship between Conradin and Mrs De Ropp was purely built up hatred for an extensive period of time. The former relationship is reconciled as both sides did not mean to bicker with one another and the two were merely being petty,  while the latter relationship was pent up hatred which went as far as the will to kill.

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Father is a quiet person. He is a man of little words.
This is evidenced by the fact that his father converses with neither his son nor his relatives often. He does not express his thoughts to his son clearly, and neither does his son to him. We see that Father actually does not bring up his past voluntarily, and it is only known to his son after his relatives confronted his son. This is also a primary reason why the third party was necessary to resolve the conflicts between parent and child.
The mother in the Paper Menagerie was also similarly quiet and did not bring up her past with her son.  She "eventually stopped speaking altogether" and suffered in silence, which also relates to the grief that the Father in the film experienced. (His feelings came out it in a burst: "Dad made Popiah for 40 years and brought the seven of us up. Have you ever heard him complain of feeling tired?") Her son was only enlightened when he saw a note she left for him. It also took his girlfriend to open up his perspectives and see his mother in a different light, which demonstrates how an outsider can widen your view and lower your bias.
Therefore, we can see how both parents in different stories relate to each other very similarly.

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Father is very filial to his own father and keeps very closely by his traditions.

This is evidenced by Father still making Popiah Skins and the ingredients by hand every year, most likely during the Chinese New Year. His son and siblings tell him that "no need for the trouble. Just go for a buffet and we'll only need to eat" and that a buffet is "cheap and fresh, and we don't have to work for it".  However, Father responds, saying that their father "made popiah for 40 years" to bring his 7 children up but he never once complained of feeling tired. This shows that Father saw his father very highly and respected him. As the saying goes," Imitation is the highest form of flattery". Father striving to follow in his father's footsteps shows his admiration for his father.

Unlike the father in Father's Help, he is clearly much more quiet and does not seem to be the head of the family. The sisters seem to be a lot less quieter and rowdier, making many suggestions and complaining much more. We feel that the sisters are much more prominent and much more like the father in Father's Help. However, it is difficult to compare as they are from 2 different countries with different cultures.

The father in Father's Help is much more brash as well, often making violent moves (e.g. beating Swaminathan) while the father here is much more gentle and kind. The father seen in Popiah does not speak his mind, as seen by his unexplained past in the first part of the short film and quiet nature. The father from Father's Help speaks his mind most of the time and is usually very loud.

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The father in the short film is characterised as quiet, stern and does  not communicate much with son. This may be so as the son does not really understand his father's past and do not know how important making Popiah was to his father. both of them were not able to express themselves clearly to the other side.

As compared to the father in Father's Help, the father in the short film is quiet while the father in Father's Help is outspoken and expresses himself when he asked Swaminathan to go to school and pass a letter to the principal. He is also firm when saying this to Swaminathan. However, the father in the short film is quiet and does not talk much to his son.

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The father in Father's help refuses to relate with the son, as he said that the son had to go to school and pass the letter to the principal, while the son was unable to express his feelings properly. It was a very one-sided relationship, whereas the relationship in the short film was more two=sided and both were trying to understand each other, despite not being able to.

The father in the film is also very fillial as he kept on living in the Kampung whereas his siblings and family moved to the city. This is so as he felt that his father had worked really hard to raise his family in the kampung. He also makes popiah during his father's death anniversary as a offering to him. When he was young, the father's father made popiah and made a living to raise the whole family. Thus the father feels that he should continue this tradition. He said that his father "made popiah for 40 years to bring his 7 children up but never complained of being tired".

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The relationship between the father and son in "Popiah" is very callous due to the difference in thinking between the father and the son. The father is very nostalgic and follows the grandfather's way of cooking. The grandfather made homemade popiahs for his seven children which was very tiring but he never muttered the word "tired". He did this for 40 years. The father being the eldest saw what the grandfather was doing and was very touched and thus continued the tradition of making popiahs. Although his sibling insisted to buy " buffet because it was cheaper and easier" and wanted him to " buy shredded fillings" but the father continued to shred the fillings by himself even if it took him to the night. Being fillial, he would also serve the popiahs to the deceased grandfather. Therefore, the grandfather was very nostalgic.

However, the son was very short-tempered and lazy. The son, like many of the relatives, wanted the father to buy the shredded toppings in the market or buy buffet to eat. When the father told the son off for not concentrating on the popiah making, he stomped off madly. When the relatives came over, the did not help them make the popiah but rather lie on his bed using his handphone. He also referred his father as stubborn. As the father is a single parent, it worsen their relationship until the son comes to an understanding of his father's actions.

The father-son relationship is vastly contrast to the mother-son relationship in Grasshoppers. Although the mother is a single parent, the son understands and never blamed the mother. The mother knew what the son loved to eat and bought his "favourite fishball mee-hoon" every morning for the writer to eat. The writer would occasionally help out at the mother's store without being told to do so unlike the son in Popiah which lazed on the bed. The writer remembered the mother's birthday when the mother herself did not remember it and " saved enough money" to buy "a cake and a frame". The mother was proud to say that the writer was " only twelve but she told him that he behave like a person thrice his age".  Although the mother had a permanent injury on her leg, she still worked for long hours. The son was loving to the mother and vise versa.