A Secret Lost In The Water Analysis

In this story “A Secret Lost in the Water” the author Roch Carrier is showing that a father is teaching his son a valuable lesson but he is too busy with other things like school and he lets the school change his perspective and make him forget who he really is and what he has learnt from his close ones.

The things that elders teach us should always be taken seriously and never for granted. There should always be a ton of respect shown in any case and if your elders teach you some type of valuable skills it could definitely help out in the future.
Individuals should never let other people 's perspective influence them in a bad or harsh way. They should just ignore the fact and know that they are responsible enough to choose what they want …show more content…
It’s not who they are and they should not have to be like someone else just to be accepted for someone who they are not. People need to learn that they are just words and they shouldn 't take it so seriously, otherwise just ignore it. It shows in this story how the son was too busy with things like school and kids and other things and he let it assimilate him into something he wasn’t and that affected his relationship with his father in a negative matter. There have been so many cases of depression and or even suicide on little things like people 's individual perspective affecting the victim to a state where they can 't handle it anymore, people need to learn that they are just words and it 's not really hurting them in anyway, they should be themselves and love themselves for who they are. This story is showing how schools are assimilating kids to be influenced to be just like them even though their first priority should be to stay close to their home culture and keep whatever they are learning as a secondary, same things goes for religion, beliefs, tradition etc. The author shows in the story how the father thinks his son is old enough and that he should learn this family trick that his father had probably passed down to him and now he probably want to do the same for his son, but it requires his son to be more mature, but his son is too busy with school and as time passes on and his son is getting older and having kids, his perspective is changing a lot and now he gets to barely talks to his father and then their relation becomes even more scarce than ever before. And that is something people should not just let go, it is something they should always keep very close, no matter what which leads to the next