The Contest of the Misunderstood Architects

Name: Anita
Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2012


Two words, unsympathetic character. Mr. Hoodhood plays Holling's father, who is too busy worrying about his job; than actually making time for his family. Some obvious examples of Mr. Hoodhood showing
this is when, Holling has a big play to perform that he had to do. Holling goes to his dad and tells him about the play, and instead of Mr. Hoodhood encouraging him. He decides that Holling has to wear the
embarrassing costume. This costume had yellow tights and to also make it any worse it had feathers sticking out from behind. I could tell Mr. Hoodhood simply cared more about his job than his son, once he had announced that Holling had to do the play no matter what. Mr. Hoodhood had made that decision simply because maybe, 'one day Mr. Goldman, the supposed one of the leading roles of the play, might ask him that he needs an architect to design a theatre one day.' Mr. Hoodhood is the just the kind of father that is more interested in his job and himself than his son.
 On the otherhand you can say that Mr. Kowalski is the same. They both are architects, who both are rivals, and own their own company. Even though Mr. Kowalski has been recently introduced in the book, there are quite a few differences you notice about him and Mr. Hoodhood. Unlike Mr. Hoodhood, you could tell two times in the chapter that Mr. Kowalski cares about his daughter as much as he does about his job. In the book when Meryl Lee and Holling go on a date, Mr. Hoodhood doesn't give any pointers or support in the date whatsoever. However, Mr. Kowalski volunteers to drive the couple to where the Romeo and Juliet play is located. Also, when Mr. Hoodhood finds out that Mr. Kowalski had found out his bid for the high school because of Holling; Holling gets silently yelled at while he blames it on Meryl Lee for telling her father about the model. This is related to the play Romeo and Juliet because both Meryl Lee and Holling are misunderstood and start to ignore each other. This leads into thecompany Mr. Kowalski and Associates dropping out their bid. I'm prettysure the reason why is because he noticed on how his daughter started acting and felt really guilty about what he had done. That's something Mr. Hoodhood would have never done. This small scenario in the chaptertells you on who really is the better parent here.