Power By Tobias Wolff Analysis

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In the short story “power” by Tobias Wolff, the author is trying to promote several values such as family, parenting, and relationship. More specially, the relationship between father and son. The author used flashback to tell the reader some background story of what kind of person the father is and why the mother does not truth him. The story shows differences of how the narrator or the son thinks about his father in the beginning and at the end. Many readers may think that the father deserves to be left out of the family due to his irresponsible action; However, the father is willing to risk everything to reunite his family again. First of all, the father knows that his chance of getting back with his wife and son again could be zeros if he breaks his promise. “Your mother will never forget me for this.’’ (Wolff, 6), he is willing to take the risk of getting in trouble with the police from breaking through the closed road just because he believes that he could keep his promise. His action shows that he truly cares about his wife and his son. He wants his wife to believe in him once again. He is putting in the effort of gaining their trust and making them think that he could and willing to change for them. “Don’t …show more content…

He is willing to put in the effort to gain back the trust. He is more than welcome to change if it would make him part of his family again. A family is everything. We made mistakes and disappointed our love one sometime somehow whether it is intentionally or unintentionally. For some people, by the time they realize how important their family are, it was already too late. Nevertheless, for some lucky one there who has a chance to change, they are doing anything and everything in their power to prove to their family that they are worth giving a chance to. Moreover, they would make sure that something like this will never happen

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