Cather's Essay 'A Celebration Of Grandfathers'

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In the essay " a celebration of grandfathers", the author was trying to prove a point and i believe his point was to remember and respect not just your grandparents but all your elders for one day one will miss them,they will be gone. The author was brought up as a respectful child.To respect his elders. the author today now tries to teach young people of our time to do and be the same,respectful. The grandfather, in his older age of course begins to become weaker and can't work or probably think the way he use to. however 'this process is something to be faces, not hidden away by false images. Dying is something that must occur in a person's life when his grandfather said "death is only this small transformation in life" He learns that he

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