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Tu Familia es lo Mas Importante: Hector, Achilles, and the Reframing of Heroic Masculinity and its Legacy in the Iliad Item Info

Introduction: "To properly frame my project, I must first tell you a story about my family. My father comes from humble beginnings and is the fifth of nine children. He grew up very poor in a household with limited access to food and water. To put food on the table, my grandfather would take him and his brothers out to the fields to gather vegetables, move materials, or do whatever manual labor they could find. It was hard, back-breaking work, but it taught him to hold firm to the belief that he needed to do whatever was necessary as a provider because “tu familia es lo mas importante.” Like many men of his generation, this strict upbringing conditioned my father to endure no matter what challenges were placed before him. Unfortunately, when such high expectations are thrust upon the next generation, it creates a mindset in which they are often ill-equipped to navigate in the same ways and creates often unintentional emotional scars that are difficult to heal from. The children of such parents and grandparents hold on to their generational pain like a thorn rooted in their palm, where it festers and, if left untreated, cripples the limb. . . ."

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Title:
Tu Familia es lo Mas Importante: Hector, Achilles, and the Reframing of Heroic Masculinity and its Legacy in the Iliad
Creator:
Torres-Lopez, Wesly
Date Created:
2022-12
Description:
Introduction: "To properly frame my project, I must first tell you a story about my family. My father comes from humble beginnings and is the fifth of nine children. He grew up very poor in a household with limited access to food and water. To put food on the table, my grandfather would take him and his brothers out to the fields to gather vegetables, move materials, or do whatever manual labor they could find. It was hard, back-breaking work, but it taught him to hold firm to the belief that he needed to do whatever was necessary as a provider because “tu familia es lo mas importante.” Like many men of his generation, this strict upbringing conditioned my father to endure no matter what challenges were placed before him. Unfortunately, when such high expectations are thrust upon the next generation, it creates a mindset in which they are often ill-equipped to navigate in the same ways and creates often unintentional emotional scars that are difficult to heal from. The children of such parents and grandparents hold on to their generational pain like a thorn rooted in their palm, where it festers and, if left untreated, cripples the limb. . . ."
Subjects:
Hector, Achilles, Homer, The Iliad, masculinity, fatherhood, trauma
Methods:
textual analysis
Location:
Ancient Troy
Language:
English; Spanish
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Preferred Citation:
"Tu Familia es lo Mas Importante: Hector, Achilles, and the Reframing of Heroic Masculinity and its Legacy in the Iliad", English Honors Thesis Repository, Nevada State University
Reference Link:
https://nevada-state-english.github.io/nsu-english-thesis/items/ht044.html
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