Regardless of who he is, my mother who is another very stubborn person is still married to the old crone and they seem to be somewhat happy. He makes decision based on what he wants and what is best for him, not for the generally community aka his family. I think my father has always been this way. Do I think it’s in any way because of him being at war at some point in his life? No I do not. He’s a very selfish being, but I understand that he is older and this is now the man that he is. He pops in every once in a while to ask my advice on his writings and use my creativity, but when that runs out he typically doesn’t pay much attention to anything I do. My father has always been a bit of a distant creature from my life. I guess I’d like to know what happens if he relapses? She tells her daughter that they are his roots for changing his ways. However, how the father goes about telling his daughter that he is a murderer and also hearing the mother’s reaction is great. It’s hard for me to actually relate to the story, because I’ve never personally been in that situation. To find out someone you never thought could harm a fly, someone you idolized turns out to be a murderous soldier, well that blew me away. I love that there is such a big twist at the end and she has to live with the knowledge that her father isn’t who she thought he was.
It takes me out of the realism, the truly raw moments of what this story is really about. To be honest I know she wrote this probably based on memory and not out of what was physically happening in that moment, but because of that being the case and how powerful this story is, I wish she didn’t try to take such liberties in her descriptions of certain moments. It was about a young “artist” who was trying to deliver a sculpture bought by someone living in Tampa, FL and on their journey her father disposed of the sculpture. I recently had the pleasure of reading a short from the book Dewbreaker by Edwidge Danticat.
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