Describe The Relationship Between Father Andre Dubus

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This is a memoir of Andre Dubus II’s life, illustrating his childhood and his late 40s life when his father deceased. In 1970’s, when Andre was only a six or seven years old kids, their parents got divorced. His father separated from their house and lived with his new girlfriend, while Andre Dubus III and his three siblings grew up with their mother near Massachusetts mill town, where street gangs and drugs penetrates through the city. Andre’s childhood was tough, he was only of the victim of bullying. Thus to protect himself and people he loved from street violence. Andre signed on to be a boxer to learn to use the fighting skills against them, by making himself physically stronger than them, as well as to boost his confidence. Meanwhile, his father, is a part-time teacher who taught college students. …show more content…
Yet when he grew up, he started to visit his father more frequently, not only be to a better writer himself could achieve to be. He started to understand his father deeply as he spent more time with him. He forgave the days the he left him and his siblings behind alone, where they struggled in the cold and hunger. He grew to become a man that bear responsibility, for his beloved ones, himself and the whole family. He started to admire and appreciate his father’s compassion and love, therefore he began to forgive him. At the end of this memoir, he proposed a scene of his father’s funeral, where they said the Lord’s Prayer, expressing his interpretation of life and how grateful he is to be a great man. The concept of forgiveness, bullying, and divorce is clearly illustrated in the book and that could be thoroughly analyzed and presented in this