Unbreakable chain

M.F.K. Fisher has a unique point of view about the forms of punishment her father administered to her. At first we are fed two lines which cause confusion to the reader. In the beginning of the essay Fisher writes "I have never been beaten.", but then goes on to say how she was spanked eight or nine and even ten times in a row by her father. Then to further contradict what she had already said, she says "Once Rex hit me." From the beginning of the story until this point she goes from never

Hitting on the other hand, is not justified violence to Fisher. Fisher's defintion of hitting would probably be a spur of the moment act of violence. The reference to the statement "Once Rex hit me.", comes from the time she was struck in teh head suddenly by her father after dropping her younger brother on the ground in anger. Without thinking, her father leaped across the room and hit her violently sending her across the room. This was the first time she had ever been "hit". By reading her feelings on being hit, its safe to say that this was a big deal to her. Comments such as " I knew that a great deal had happened", and " I wished that I would be maimed, so that he would feel shame every time he looked at my poor face" prove somewhat to the extent of her views on hitting. However, as serious as she thought the hit was, she still found it in her heart to quickly forgive him maybe because it still was not a beating.

being beaten, to spanked on a regular basis, to only being hit once. This raises a lot of

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