Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Family Story-Blackberries by Leslie Norris


The story begins when the mother decides it was time to give her son a haircut. They go inside Mr. Freshman shop to cut the boys hair. Mr. Freshman tells the boy that he looks exactly as his dad when he was a young man. Then after they leave the shop they were going to do some shopping. The mother buys him an expensive hat that looked round with a little button on top. His father arrives home and tells him that they are going for a walk on Sunday. The boy and his father go out to the woods and end up picking and eating Blackberries. They decide to bring some home for his mother to enjoy as well. There was nowhere to put them in but the boy's new cap bought by the mother which was very expensive. As they arrive home, and instead of the mother being happy gets mad. The cap is full of stains and Blackberry juice. The mother starts fighting because the cap was expensive. He has a great bond with his father and his mother insists on fighting about money and how he does not try his best at getting it. His innocence is taken away when he begins crying over his parents. The child began to understand that they were different people; his father, his mother, he and that he must learn sometimes to be alone. Norris portrays a great deal of character contrast between the young boy's parents and a strong use of symbolism with the blackberries.

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