In this story, the boy is taught a valuable lesson that he doesn’t understand. In the story, the main character (MC) and his friends go to the racetrack in their home town to see the horses and be around the folk there. They love horses and the atmosphere that the horses bring with them to the racetrack. In the story there is a man that MC looks up to more than his father. This shows that he did not view his father as a direct influence and authority figure in his life. He valued another strange man more. He felt that he could relate to this man more. This is apparent in today’s society also. Many adolescents view their parents, or more directly their fathers, in this way.
In our story, the MC is semi close with his father. They are in the respects that his father understands that the MC is probably going to do what he wants. Sighting page two, the entire second paragraph, the MC says that he and his friends decided that they were going to set out to a different town where there was a big race. They totally disr
Without a father figure, you have little understanding of the world and of how things are. In our story I Want To Know Why, the MC doesn’t understand how Jerry Tillford, this strange man that he starts out to respect, could betray him like that. That is one example of how the father figure is suppose to help him understand this and explain it to him. Since the MC’s father apparently doesn’t think that he needs to be taught this, that he should like him figure it out on his own, then the boy still to this current date in the story doesn’t understand it. It is also like this in many American families as well as families in different nations.
In today’s society, a young boy of the age of 13 to 16 will do what he wants if he doesn’t have a father who sticks his nose in his son’s business enough to explain the world for what he can and to help his son through ordeals in his life. From my own personal experiences, I can say that I have been one of the fortunate young boys growing up with a father figure ab
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