Tobias uses emotive imagery to paint the image of a young child walking alone in the streets longing for a father, a family and a stable environment and a place to call home. Tobias's ideas of a family are based around the 1950's stereotype of the American family, which consisted a working father, stay at home mother, two children and a dog, who would all live in a suburban house. ... Wolff reflects on these memories as a way of highlighting the effect of being abandoned by his own father had on him growing up, especially his lack of stability within the home and within his life. ......

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate