What is the theme in “The Oilman and His Sons”? How does the theme emerge and develop over the course of the text? Use evidence from the text to support your response. Your response should be at least two complete paragraphs


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There was once an oilman with five sons and they were all married and lived jointly with their father. But the daughters-in-law were discontented with this arrangement and urged their husbands to ask their father to divide the family property. At first the old man refused, but when his sons persisted, he told them to bring him a log two cubits long and so thick that two hands could just span it, and he said that if they could break the log in two, he would divide the property. So they brought the log and then asked for axes, but he told them that they must break it themselves by snapping it or twisting it or standing on it. So they tried and failed.
Then the old man said, “You are five and I make six; split the log into six.” So they split it and he gave each a piece and told them to break them, and each easily snapped his stick. Then the old man said, “We are like the whole log: we have plenty of property and are strong and can overcome attack; but if we separate we shall be like the split sticks and easily broken.”
They admitted that this was true and proposed that the property should not be divided but that they should all become separate. But the father would not agree to this for he thought that people would call him a miser if he let his sons live separately without his giving them their share in the property as their own. So as they persisted in their folly he partitioned the property.
But in a few years they all fell into poverty and had not enough to eat nor clothes to wear, and the father and mother were no better off. Then the old man called all his sons and their wives and said, “You see what trouble you have fallen into? I have a riddle for you, explain it to me. There are four wells, three empty and one full of water. If you draw water from the full one and pour it into the three empty ones they will become full. But when they are full and the first one is empty, if you pour water from the three full ones into the empty one it will not be filled. What does this mean?”
And they could not answer and he said, “The four wells mean that a man had three sons, and while they were little he filled their stomachs as the wells were filled with water; but when they separated they would not fill the old man’s stomach.”
And it was true, that the sons had done nothing to help their father and they were filled with shame and they agreed that as long as their father lived they would be joint with him and would not separate again until he died.

Answer:

The theme is that family should stay together therefore being stronger that way. The five sons did not want to stay together though due to their wives’ wishes. The father compared their relationship to a log. The Oilman said, “We are like the whole log: we have plenty of property and are strong and can overcome attack; but if we separate we shall be like the split sticks and easily broken.” The sons still separated from their father.

  The theme emerges as they all fell into poverty. Once they were all divided it was easy for the “log” to fall apart. The Oilman then compares the family to four wells “The four wells mean that a man had three sons, and while they were little he filled their stomachs as the wells were filled with water; but when they separated they would not fill the old man’s stomach.” The theme stayed the same over the course of the passage. They were all stronger together.

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To Faulkner, what is the difference between enduring and prevailing?
Enduring is overcoming that fear and those dangers. Prevailing is merely
surviving the fear and the dangers of life. To endure is to triumph.
Enduring is merely surviving the fear and the dangers of life. Prevailing is
overcoming that fear and those dangers. To prevail is to triumph.
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One morning, Don Miguel got out of bed
with one idea rooted in his head:
to graft his orange to his lemon tree.
It took him the whole day to work them free,
5 lay open their sides, and lash them tight.
For twelve months, from the shame or from the fright
they put forth nothing; but one day there appeared
two lights in the dark leaves. Over the years
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10 each bough looked like it gave a double crop,
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The man who bought the house had had no dream
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15 led him to take his axe and split the bole*
along its fused seam, then dig two holes.
And no, they did not die from solitude;
nor did their branches bear a sterile fruit;
nor did their unhealed flanks weep every spring
20 for those four yards that lost them everything,
as each strained on its shackled root to face
the other’s empty, intricate embrace.
They were trees, and trees don’t weep or ache or shout.
And trees are all this poem is about.

8. According to the speaker, the actions of the “man who bought the house” in lines 13-16 are driven by
A. resentment of Don Miguel
B. concern for the well-being of the trees
C. unknown motives
D. sheer ignorance
E. ruthless greed

9. The contrast in how the village children (line 11) and the man (line 13) respond to the two trees most clearly
serves to underline
A. the children’s fear of Don Miguel
B. the children’s enjoyment of Don Miguel’s fruit
C. the man’s dislike of children
D. the man’s lack of imagination
E. the man’s knowledge of horticulture

10. The figure of the “man who bought the house” (line 13) serves to highlight which of the following traits in Don
Miguel?
A. His practical nature
B. His physical vitality
C. His unconventional ideas
D. His scientific precision
E. His frugal habits

11. Which of the following best describes the function of lines 17-22 in the context of the poem as a whole?
A. They interrupt the narrative to create empathy and suspense regarding the fate of the trees.
B. They interrupt the narrative to criticize Don Miguel’s motives and the results of his actions.
C. They interrupt the narrative to justify the actions of the man who bought Don Miguel’s house.
D. They deliver the narrative’s unexpected resolution.
E. They deliver the intended moral of the narrative.

12. Which of the following best describes how the break between the two stanzas affects the poem’s narrative?
A. It marks the transition to a new point in the narrative after a lapse of time.
B. It marks the transition to the retelling of the same story from a different perspective.
C. It separates the main narrative from a flashback that relates an episode from Don Miguel’s past.
D. It separates the main narrative from an episode foreshadowing the destruction of the two trees.
E. It separates the main narrative from a section that uses the stream-of-consciousness technique to convey
Don Miguel’s impressions.

13. In lines 23-24 (“They . . . about”), the speaker’s tone is best described as
A. angry
B. bitter
C. mournful
D. unsentimental
E. inspiring14. The use of which of the following techniques hints that the speaker’s assertions in the final two lines of the
poem (lines 23-24) should not be taken at face value?
A. Hyperbole in line 4
B. Simile in line 10
C. A structural shift at line 13
D. Near rhyme at lines 17 and 18
E. Personification in lines 21-22

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