Don T Call Me Kid Analysis

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Your opinion doesn’t matter, you’re just a kid. Everyone, I don 't care who you are, or what point in history you 're from, everyone has heard this at least once. I know I have, and so has Jason, a boy out of the mind of Pamela Joern in the short story, Don’t Call Me Kid. Jason has been dreading to see his father, if fact hes been thinking of how hes going to tell him off when he arrives Friday afternoon but for some reason, Jason doesn 't. They start there journey to Nebraska, miles of nothing to go on a buffalo hunt in the middle of nowhere. Along the way they bicker like two brothers that dont get along and it reminds me of the relationship i had with my dad at a point in our lives. I thought that i knew everything and my dad Tracy was always the opposition. The way they go back and forth really shows an underlying problem between the two, its like they want to open up to each other but they wont allow themselves.

As they drive Dave tries to talk but Jason is reluctant to listen. What ever Dave says it doesnt matter, why would Jason care he never did before. In this sense i think Jason
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They got to the town and circled a couple times trying to find the place. Dave insisted he knew where he was going but Jason was compelled to ask somebody at the nearest gas station. Dave was so mad he said " Don 't tell me how to drive, this is my car and my trip!" Jason immediately got out of the car and before Dave got in the gas station he already had directions. This moment is powerful in the story, it goes to show that Dave isn 't always right, and that Jason is far more capable than Dave thought possible. At this point i think Dave realizes that hes been wrong about Jason and he hasn 't given him the credit he deserves. I feel like everyone experiences a moment like this with their father where they 've finally proved them wrong, or proved themselves

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