Federico Mantilla
Mr. Young
10/13/2015
Final
“Powder” Tobias Wolff
in the short story "powder" by Tobias Wolff, Wolff expressed the idea that people should enjoy the moments”. Wolff created a young, controlling, conservative boy to contrast his fearless father. The son, “was a boy who kept his clothes on numbered hangers to insure proper rotation. [He] bothered [his] teachers for homework assignments far ahead of their due dates so [he] could draw up schedules” (Wolff). His father on the other hand snuck his son into a nightclub to see Thelonius Monk, without the mother’s authorization. The narrator talks about the event of the nightclub to show us how the event changed his mind. His parents were going to divorce. The idea of this changed
Mr. Young
10/13/2015
Final
“Powder” Tobias Wolff
in the short story "powder" by Tobias Wolff, Wolff expressed the idea that people should enjoy the moments”. Wolff created a young, controlling, conservative boy to contrast his fearless father. The son, “was a boy who kept his clothes on numbered hangers to insure proper rotation. [He] bothered [his] teachers for homework assignments far ahead of their due dates so [he] could draw up schedules” (Wolff). His father on the other hand snuck his son into a nightclub to see Thelonius Monk, without the mother’s authorization. The narrator talks about the event of the nightclub to show us how the event changed his mind. His parents were going to divorce. The idea of this changed