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Compare and contrast the relationship between parent and child in three or more of the short stories you have read.
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GCSE English Prose assignment (short stories) Compare and contrast the relationship between parent and child in three or more of the short stories you have read. Three stories that I have decided to contrast and compare are 'drunkard of the river', 'kiss miss carol' and 'the exercise'. Drunkard of the river is story by Michael Anthony set in Trinidad. It shows a negative relationship between a father 'Mano' and son 'Sona'. The relationship is not good; there is always conflict between the father and son. The son describes his father as a 'beast' because he had watched his mother put up with 'hell', 'sweat' and 'starvation'. He feels sorry but also anger. Because of the behaviour treatment of his father there is a lot of violence and argument towards his son and this effects how sona feels about him. He had made their life miserable. He works but doesn't spend...
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