The first few chapters of this book, Fathers, Sons, & Brothers, were basically an account of things that happened during Brett Lott's childhood. At first Lott talked about his garage in California. This at first seemed insignificant, but I later realized why he chose to write about this. I think this was kind of his place. Its where him and his brothers spent a lot of their time and where they really expanded their relationship.
He then talks about his move to Phoenix Arizona. When he gets to Arizona there are no garages there. I think this is kind of a metaphor for what would happen to his relation ship with his brothers. He uses the garage to show how without their own space, him and his brothers grew apart. He then talks about his paper route in Arizona. And he mentions that his mother would drive him if it was raining just so he could get it done. This seemed to be something he was proud of and enjoyed.
Overall this book is faster to read than The Liar's Club, mostly because there are fewer words per page. Although much like The Liar's Club, Brett Lott likes to switch time frames to present and past like Mary Karr did. The further into the book this becomes more evident and more difficult to follow. Sometime it is hard to determine if he is talking about his childhood or his sons. To me a lot of this story is kind of choppy and hard to follow. I don't know if this was Lott having a difficult time gathering his thoughts to put in order or whether it’s intended to be this multitude of smaller thoughts and stories pieced into one. I am hoping we will find out as we go on whether this was intentional or not.
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Andrew,
ReplyDeleteI'm interested that you notice the time differences. Write more about that. In fact, posts need to be meatier than this. Remember, we're looking for at east 300 words.
Also, you've peppered the post with too many errors. Please go back an correct these. I won't take any points off now, but try to be more careful. Here's a secret: teachers will always be more receptive to your work if they're not distracted by that sort of thing ("happend," "its," "Pheonix," "karr").
Keep working.
Andrew,
ReplyDeleteStill too much summary. You need to teach us something about the book that you noticed.
"him and his brothers" should be "he and his brothers." "Where him spent a lot of time" doesn't make sense. "Its" should be "It's."
The main interpretation you offer is about time switches. Then, though, you only suggest how the time switches effect you. Can you say how the time switches effect the piece of writing itself?
7/10
Grade: 7/10
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