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“I don 't get many days off from cooking. I don 't take many days off cooking, because I only like to eat at restaurants that serve food better than my own, or that serve Mexican food or sushi. Hell, I don 't even take days off from cooking when I go out for days on the road...” (1). In this example of repetition Junod repeats the fact that he doesn’t get or take days off of cooking. He uses the repetition to emphasize the point that he’s always cooking no matter what. The next example is when Junod uses repetition by switching around the way he says he cooks what he likes to eat. “The food I cook for my family is the food I like to eat. The food I like to eat is the food I cook for my family” (1). He just made the sentence backwards to bring attention to the fact that he cooks selfishly and for his family at the same time. Junod just uses repetition to get his point across in a clear …show more content…
He finally knew that she was just in over her head and was trying her best. He had taken his father’s side in taking up the job of cooking. It had been his mother’s, but now it was his. Junod had made it a goal to cook better for his family than his mother ever had for her’s. He wanted to make his family’s life better than he had thought his was, but he didn’t realize until later that his mother wasn’t really that bad. Junod had also written a piece on how good his father was, and his mother told him not to “forget who raised him” (5). I think he also felt like he needed forgiveness for that too. His mother had forgiven him because he was still her son, but life throws things at you no matter what. His mother had died of starvation which just goes to show the narrative arc of life since she couldn’t cook in the first