"Unfair! Every other boy can go, every other man can go, but I'm the one stuck cooped here in this dump!" (Adam Cooper ) In the story April Morning by Howard Fast, a young boy, age 15, is overprotected by both his parents. His father is always upset over Adam's lack of efforts while his mother is worrisome and will never let down her guard for her children. Obviously being upset, any child including us, would think that our parents are out to rob us of our freedom, rights and happiness. Therefore, so does Adam. However, even though we agree that Adam's parents are unfair to him, had the parents been narrating, the story would have been completely different. In particular, if Adam's father had been narrating, Adam may have just seemed like a disobedient boy.
If the story was narrated by Adam's father, we may have been seeing things differently. We may have understood what Mr. Cooper thought about Adam and about Adam's behalf. We know right from the start that both father and son are hard- headed and get in arguments for simplest of matters. According to Adam, his father is just being dumb and overprotective. Maybe the dad hates fighting with his son but is just trying to look at for him by protecting him. It truly would be interesting to know what is racing through Adam's father's head and what he is thinking of when certain things occur. For example, the boy believes that his father doesn’t want him to join the army just to keep control over him and embarrass him in front of everyone. But maybe it might just be that Adam's father may be trying to protect him. His father may have been attempting to keep him safe. He may have told Adam to stay away from the Army only because he doesn't want to lose him. This, in fact, could be true. Since the story isn't told by Mr. Cooper, we really don't know the real reasons. But, if we had known the real reasons maybe we may have realized something new; We would have realized something new, all from a different point of view.
No comments:
Post a Comment