Those Winter Sundays

Jude Ceant 02/22/13

English 1102 Prof. Martin

"Those Winter Sundays"

Journal #7

This is another common story of how a child matures, and reminisce the sacrifices his/her parent has made. This narrative describes most lower class and some middle class families who struggle to support their family. The father is said to have woken up early on other days as well as Sundays to go to work to help his family; which could also be the cause of the reason for the narrator to state that there are chronic angers in the house. Even if the father is leaving to help his family being gone for so long will have an unintended effect.

The kid seems to have never considered the hardships his father faces for him before growing up. The depiction of the damage the father has on his hands should be enough to make him realize. The father got up to light fires for everyone in the house, and no one, including the speaker, ever thanks him. The kid does not understand his father's love for him. The speaker states that he was afraid of his father even though his father even went out of his way to polish his shoes. Why are children unable to think on a much larger scale?

I have also experienced times like that as a child seeing my father leave at 3:00am in the morning to slave over an oven at a bakery. The difference is I've always wondered how hard it must be for him. I would literally break out in tears over the thought. Like the speaker I never said anything to my dad about it, but everyone and I made sure that when he was home he was comfortable.