The story begins with a means to an end.
The story is ripe with references to death,.
The author succeeds in creating a dreary,.
morbid tone. I believe it is the authors' goal to create the perception.
that the father in the story may have prepared fugu for his son and.
daughter. It is my opinion that while he came close, he does not succeed in.
persuading the reader that the father would not take this gamble at the.
risk of his family.
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Kazuo Ishiguro, the author, highlights the terseness between father.
and son. We learn from the story that this terseness was brought about by.
the father when the narrator was younger. The narrator was chastised for.
talking too much and this event changed him. The author then goes into.
describing the tense relationship between the narrator and his mother and.
father. The reader can discern that the narrator soured the relationship.
between himself and his parents by moving to California. The author then.
shows the father has come to terms with the son moving away. "I for one am.
prepared to forget the past. Your mother too was always ready to.
welcome you back-upset as she was by your behavior." The father then goes.
on to explain that he forgives him and he acknowledges that many people.
have made the same mistake. One can still tell that the father is sore from.
this event because after he said all is forgiven, he goes on to explain.
why, while simultaneously taking jabs at the son. The narrator, noticeably.
annoyed by the fathers continued harassment states "Perhaps we should.
forget it, as you suggest." The author highlights the fact that the father.
is the head of the household and that he is most likely unable to be.
reasoned with. Kikuko breathes a sigh of relief when the father leaves the.
brother and sister alone, and proceeds to smoke a cigarette. When asked why.
she did not just smoke openly she pointed to the house and they laughed.
Although she is close to graduating college, the father still holds power.
Kazuo Ishiguro tells us of an exceedingly powerful story. In "A Family Supper," a young man returns home from California. ... The small family then reorganizes to eat a fish diner. ... Ishiguro also capitalizes the whole phrase, "Poor Mother." ... "A Family Supper" is about a young man's return home who is accompanied by bad news of his mother dying two years prior. ...
