Orval And Jerry Reminisce Analysis

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Orval and Jerry Reminisce On a memorable day for Jerry, when Virginia leaves to go down and get something to eat, Jerry and his dad reminisce. It is a conversation that Jerry will never forget. Also present are Sue and Kathleen. Among the memories discussed are the following: Orval asks Jerry to look outside the window and tell him what he sees. Jerry answers that he sees the Illinois Power Co. to which Orval reply’s, “Do you realize that I sent 34 years of my life in the second floor of that building. It was a good job.” He then begins to talk of his love for his father-in-law, Jerry Flynn. Orval remembers how, when he was young, he loved to imitate Grandpa Flynn’s Irish brogue and mannerism. But most of all, he talks about the good …show more content…

Orval answers that he remembers it. He says that it was an old vegetable delivery truck owned by Frank Pope, a friend of the Flynn family. Orval then adds that he had set up the picnic and that he always sort of blamed himself for the fact that Frank Pope’s son got sick that day, developed polio, and had to spend months in an iron lung and being crippled for life. At a time when we did not own a car Jerry brings up another memory as a young kid. Leaving Uncle Frank Young’s house late at night over the Christmas holidays, we took a taxi all the way from St. Louis to our house in Belleville. In an amazing display, Orval not only remembers the incident, but how much he had to pay the taxi driver. Jerry then questions his dad on whether he remembers the infamous night at the end of his senior in high school when the police came to the house about 2:00 in the morning. Jerry was taken to the police station for questioning about several acts of minor vandalism which included lifting a man’s Volkswagen Beetle onto his front porch. Jerry comments how he has always been surprised that Orval never got angry or punished him for it. Orval answers that he remembers it because he had to go down to the police station the next morning with the other fathers and meet with the chief of police. He adds “the young in every generation don’t seem to change very

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