Family Task 2

In Babam ve Oğlum movie, we can see the typical example of father- son conflict. Sadık who was the son of landowner Hüseyin in Aegean region in the Turkey, went to the Istanbul to took university education about journalism in the end of 1979s. However, his father did not want to it. Hüseyin thought that his son should become an agriculture engineer and he will take care of his land. Sadık went to Istanbul and became a journalist in the beginning of 1980. Also, he supported the communism and against to his father because of his job. After military coup, he decided to go to his father house and leave his son in this house because during his son’s birth, he lost his wife. With this event (meeting son and father after many years), conflict was risen. They broke down their taciturnity and always discuss about past and decision which was made by Sadık. He always criticized his father’s job and refused to improve it.

   As similar to the many Turkish father, Hüseyin want that his son may take over and improve his job. If we look to many Turkish families (especially traditional ones) we can see the same condition. At that time there were few fathers or parents who did not affect their children future desires. I mean that few parents especially fathers (because in the rural areas, father is a dominant member of each family) did not intervene their children’s future. A result of these situations, Hüseyin becomes a symbol of traditional father in Turkish family as we see same examples in Turkish society especially in rural areas

 To sum of conflict between Hüseyin and Sadık was appeared as a result of different life perspectives among these two characters