In the short story, “The Boat”, the narrator reveals his confusion between choosing his passion and pleasing his mother. The narrator, who is a professor, admires the sacrifice and death of his father who was forced to continue the family’s tradition of fishing. In “The Boat”, the narrator effectively reveals his father’s intention to break free from his life by using specific descriptive words, disorganization of the father’s room, and the connections between father and the sea.
In the beginning…
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