A Son Comes Home Bentz Analysis

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In A Son Comes Home, Joseph Bentz uses three alternating first-person narrators in order to provide multiple perspectives on the story. This is effective because we get insight not only on the main character Chris’s personal thoughts but also his father Jack and little sister Robin’s. Chris is a college graduate who leaves his home in Indiana and moves to California due to the death of his brother David. When he returns two years later, he finds that he is still haunted by the memories from the home that he grew up in, and the pressures of his family he previously tried to escape from. I relate most to Chris because from the beginning, he is an outsider. This is important to realize when we read this passage in its entirety because it explains

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