My Father The Drug Dealer Rhetorical Analysis Essay

In “My Father the Drug Dealer” Tony Dokoupil writes about life with a father who was a drug dealer. In the article Tony talks about how life was and how it impacted him in both a positive and negative way. In the article Tony Dokoupil writes that his father’s implosion was too complete for him to really fear becoming him. Tony continues on and says he has a great life with a wife and kid on the way and a job he enjoys. That is why it is hard for him to imagine detouring into a life of drugs and crime. But he is afraid of the genes he carries and is fearful of the man he may become. I believe that it is appropriate for Tony to be fearful because growing up parents play a critical role in their child’s life. Kids tend to follow in their parents footsteps and learn from their parents. In this case Tony was raised by a drug dealer and a mother who after time became an alcoholic. I believe that although Tony has a good life with his own family, a part of his father lives within him …show more content…
The impact a father has on his son is a huge one and a father-son bond is a bond like no other. The same genes and blood that run through the former drug dealing, heroin and cocaine addict runs through his son Tony Dokoupil, a man that has a family to care for and a man that has to remind himself every day that the lifestyle his father had and grew up in is not the right lifestyle for him and his family. Tony Dokoupil needs to remind himself to stay on the right tract but when times get tough and life seems to have hit rock bottom Tony becomes vulnerable and possibly even desperate and could see the lifestyle he had as a child and his father’s former life style as a way to escape. Many factors can impact Tony Dokoupil to follow into his father’s dark path and that is why it is acceptable for him to be