Plenty of children go through life everyday with hostility in their household from their own parents. A Lot of people say it comes from, how each individual parent was raised during their own childhood. Whether that’s poverty, feeling in charge, or even just wanting to see your children succeed in life. I looked at two short stories today. One was by an author named Lucille Clifton called “ Forgiving My Father”, and the second one was called “ My Fathers, in Heaven, is Reading Out Loud” by Li-Young Lee. Both of these stories portray kinda a hard time as a daughter, or son living in a household that was hard to understand why things were done the way they had been done for so long, that’s why i named this piece “Forgiven But Never Forgotten”.
In the short story “ Forgiving My Father” by Lucille Clifton, talks about how this daughter went on living day by day with someone (her own dad) she really felt like owed her and her mom. In the text she says “ …show more content…
I picked this argument because the father basically based everything off the bible and god 's beliefs. I think the father never was coming to try and hurt his family but to just better them, and unfortunately when he was trying to make his son better, the son saw it as just punishment. Because being a young kid you do not really see anything beneficial about reciting a book at the end of each month. You tend to think that someone that is just out to mentally hurt you. And at first that is exactly what Lee thought until he realized that he was just trying to make things as best as they could be. The father was just so deep embedded with his beliefs of god that he truly thought that this would be the key to being a better person. As Lee got older he realized that if his father did not do the things that he did then Lee would of turned out way different and probably would of had the most outlook of
In the short story “ Forgiving My Father” by Lucille Clifton, talks about how this daughter went on living day by day with someone (her own dad) she really felt like owed her and her mom. In the text she says “ …show more content…
I picked this argument because the father basically based everything off the bible and god 's beliefs. I think the father never was coming to try and hurt his family but to just better them, and unfortunately when he was trying to make his son better, the son saw it as just punishment. Because being a young kid you do not really see anything beneficial about reciting a book at the end of each month. You tend to think that someone that is just out to mentally hurt you. And at first that is exactly what Lee thought until he realized that he was just trying to make things as best as they could be. The father was just so deep embedded with his beliefs of god that he truly thought that this would be the key to being a better person. As Lee got older he realized that if his father did not do the things that he did then Lee would of turned out way different and probably would of had the most outlook of