Analysis Of ' Frank Was Talking About Andres Atwood 's Adopted Son

“At about the same time, I was comforting the man who had been hit… He wanted to hold my hand because it was hurting him so bad.”

Wesley thought if he could have a real genuine talk with his brother he would stop what had been doing. Frank admitted to what had happened and agreed to stop. These two shared a real moment together and hugged. “Frank’s arms were spread wide, beseechingly, yet his movement was so quick it seemed threatening”(77). The next day Marie was found dead and Wesley was in shock and didn’t expect that his brother did it until David told his father that he seen his uncle leaving Marie’s house and Wesley knew after having that talk that Frank did it.”He had long stopped being my father. He was now my interrogator, my cross- examiner.The sheriff”(89).

Frank's father has a bad habit of leaving his family in their time of need.This absence of frank's father does not bother frank that much because of the good memories he has shared with his father.frank's father is a dunk with many personalities that drunk beer of his dead son's casket .

Grace has been told for more than half her life that she was crazy. Her mother’s death that she witnesses was an accident, there was no scarred man, and there was nothing she could do to change what had happened. But Grace knew they were wrong. With the help of her friends Noah, Megan and Rosie, she managed to discover that the scarred man was Dominic, the first love of her mother, who was there to kill her mother, but chose instead to stage her death. Grace came down just as Dominic was taking the picture, and picked up the gun that was lying on the floor. Firing blinding, she missed Dominic and shot her mother instead. The traumatic moment of shooting her mother was blocked from Grace’s mind as it was unable to handle what she did. Her family tries to protect her from this, saying it was an accident, trying to get Grace to stop pushing. When pushing too hard, Grace discovers the truth of what happened that night, and what she did, and with the

A small family of four, living in the Tory town of Redding. Life was great Mr. and Mrs. Meeker owned a small tavern that supplies their town with food, rum, and supplies. Their son Timmy helped around the tavern and did chores, because his older brother Sam was off at college. Everyone in Redding was close and knew the Meeker family, they all admired how they had raised Sam and Timmy. Every year after college was over, Sam would come home and visit, except one.

When Booker pushed open the warehouse door the following morning, he found the derelict space empty. Confused, he glanced at his watch. At just past quarter to eight, Tom was late, and the dark-haired officer couldn’t help but wonder if he would show up at all. His harsh words the previous night had obviously impacted negatively on his friend, however, he still wasn’t sure what he could say to take the hurt away. He wasn’t proud of his actions, and he deeply regretted his disparaging remarks, especially because his target was a man who lacked confidence. After their altercation, he’d sought solitude in a bottle of whiskey, but his guilt had only escalated as he struggled to make sense of his feelings. It was then he had started to wonder if he really was a bully who got off on other people’s pain.

This very distinct sentence demonstrates her frustration with Phil, Ellen portrays this by purposely repeating the statement three times throughout the story, emphasizing Phil’s death. Goodman primarily writes of Phil’s death and disregards incorporating pleasant emotion towards him, but rather demonstrates him as an ordinary, obese man who is chained to his desk at all times. This image of creates a more composed, grim tone which generates less sympathy from the readers on the behalf of Phil. Goodman is also powerful when it comes to incorporating vivid and immense detail into the passage by her diction and use of rhetoric. The section involving Phil’s wife and children add emotion to the passage as well as having an effect which further engages the readers. It shows that his work came first before his family and the family suffered from his choices. This is exemplified when Phil’s “dearly beloved” eldest son goes to his neighbors to ask what his own father

“Your call, boss”, said Matt, putting down his beer. “I’ll meet you on the tarmac in five.”

beer in hand, six-pack on counter behind him. He's leaning against the sink, mildly drunk, takes a slug of beer.

“My Uncle’s breathing became thinner and drier until eventually it stopped”, pg 126. “They had found dad by the stables”, pg 148. After Murray’s dad died in a wild fire and his uncle from cancer and Murray’s brother Will had already left, Murray feels lost. “Did you know him?” , “No” said Frank.

On July 4, 1954, Sheppard’s family invited Ahern’s family for dinner. Don and Nancy Ahern and their two children joined Sheppard family for casual dinner. Ahern family is a neighbour of Sheppard’s family. After the dinner, Nancy’s two children fallen to sleep and Don dropped those kid in his house and he came back to Sheppard’s house. Meanwhile, Marilyn Sheppard drop off his child to upstair to the bed, Samuel Reese Sheppard. Sheppard’s family and Nancy’s family watched a film together. As Marilyn tried to sleep on Sam’s lap, he felt tired from working all day, so he got up and went to his couch to take a nap. Later on that night, Marilyn was beaten to death. There were 35 curved gashes on her body.

The boy’s idealization extends to her family. Though he points out their public flaws her did not appear to understand at the time and still chooses to remember the family in good terms. The girl’s older brothers, though lazy (“did no work”), were thought of in a cool, likable cowboy like fashion (they “walked with the bent knee swagger of horsemen”) and “told jokes in the barbershop”. The mother though powerless was still a “good, Christian woman.” The father, though a drunkard, still sat above his family in the “white farm house he owned” on the third floor and like a king the family “brought everything up to him.” The boy admires the father and ignores his negative qualities. Instead of saying the father is a drunkard, the boy alludes to it by saying the father was simply called a drunkard and then goes on to mention the house he bought which serves on the level of a status symbol. The father forms a trinity of the family's past (the old house), the present state of himself and the family and the future (as he “came down” the family disintegrates and “the last word was whispered” possibly indicating the death of the father and metaphorical death of

"So what did you bring with you, and we are going to Maxie's County Bar. You know where that is right, and you didn't hear that from me."

The passage in which Frank divulges into the multitude of stories his father tells reflects the writer duty as it examines the typically negative drunkard in a more positive light due to his passion for literature and knowledge. The passage begins with the childlike tone creeping in, as the simple wording of, “I know when Dad does the bad thing” emulates innocence to the scene, the diction reflecting a lack of complete knowledge of what is occurring. This tone shifts when as the passage evolves, for upon reaching imagery of him with his father in front of the fire, a more fond tone arises. The young voice peeks through within the whole passage, as Frank seems to retell verbatim some of his conversation with his father “I should be good in school…some day I’ll go back to America…I’ll be out of the rain…” (209). McCourt divulges into the special bond

After exchanging greetings and letting everyone have their chance to hug him. He headed on to the refrigerator and to snatched an Ale8. After a few big gulps, he explained how they don’t seem sell them anywhere in Missouri.