Monday, October 18, 2010

Fathers and Fatherhood

This semester, I am taking a seminar on the Literary Themes:  Fathers and fatherhood.  I did not know what to expect throughout this course, but as we move past mid terms, I am pleased to report the class has been a wonderful experience.  We were asked to read, Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs and this book, is something like I have never read.  It is a grim memoir of a boy, Augusten, and his memories of his childhood- - most negative and almost hard to read. 

I thought this was a good blog topic, as we all have or had fathers and sometimes we take those relationships for granted.  After reading this book, and watching the 1988 film Raising Arizona, I am grateful for my relationship with my father and step father. 

Anyone familiar with either of these two examples?  The book and/or the film?  What did you think?

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