I think I want to write about the father in this week’s blog entry. The father was never a character in the book that got face time or had a chapter that described himself before he was detained for being an enemy of the state, and I feel that this is very important seeing that the only time we hear the father’s voice is in the very last chapter of his confession.
His entire family describes him, but most of the memories that we get to live through come from the boy and the girl. You have their memories of laughter, stories, the description of his smiling face and the love he has for his family, yet we still don’t have a first hand analysis. But even without this, there are still plenty of details to work with especially with the way that the author writes.
The overall view of the father is very positive and throughout the entirety of the book I feel that the father was most definitely the one who went through the most change, both physically and emotionally. It was ironic that the mother was worried about the father not being able to recognize her when he comes back since he was the one who was unrecognized by his family. He had lost his teeth, hair, and his fun loving spirit and limped with the support of a cane. Through the authors words one could think he went to hell and back, which he surely did while being detained. The father’s change put a damper on the ending of the book, especially since we did not get to know his personality through a chapter of his own but it was needed because each day his family continuously anticipated his return. War is known to change a man.
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