My Father By Daniel Saunders Essay

There was only three minutes to tell a story and to grab someone's attention, the prompt was to start the story with, “She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally, decided to walk through the door.” Daniel Saunders did an excellent job using the point of view and narration to his advantage. This short short is told from the first point of view, this story could not of been writing in another point a view to get the same theme. Throughout this story you are in the sons head, you hear is thoughts and how he really feels about this situation. It stats off telling you that the only memory he has of hers is through one book that she left. He imagines her doing that things in the books he reads which are mainly fairy tales. In this short story he tells us that some people said she is dead. You can see that he is trying to ignore them and kind brush the, off when he mentions his dad never said that, and that he believed his dad over everyone else. When the narrator would tell his dad he was thinking of her, his dad would say back, she is thinking of them right at this moment too. In the sons head you can see that it lifted some weight off his shoulders, only realizing after growing up his dad told him that …show more content…
He kept his mom alive by putting her in these stories and now that the only way she is alive. At the end of this story it says, “I read like my life depends on it, like her life depends on it, and in some way, they do. They really, really do.” To me reading these stories and picturing his mom is just his way of keeping her alive in his mind and heart. If this story was told from his dads point of view or any other way, you would just see a boy who missed his mom and clung on to the one book without letting