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A Conversation with my father, Question no 02In what ways is the narrator’s second version of her story an improvement over the first? Why does her father still reject the story?

In First part of the, there was a middle-aged woman whose son starts taking drugs, In order to

Accompany her son. The mother also starts taking drugs. The Son gives up taking drugs but the

Mother cannot leave this habbit. Son is degusted and leaves his mother. Then her father rejects of her story first version, Then she writes Second version of the story Now I shall tell the

Second version(Such ways make a this part   of the story  very improve with the first version of her story )in up coming part .

 

1.In what ways the narrator’s second version of her story an improvement over the

first?

 

First of all, the mother’s habits for taking drugs Same with the first version of the

Story, (In Second) The Mother is a beautiful woman having, she saw to it that there were lots

orange juice around, honey and milk & vitamin’s pills. However, she never cooked anything

but chili, that no more than once a week, that her part in the youth culture and the mother

would rather be with the young, it was an honor, than with her own generation

The Son is now a vise boy who writes persuasive articles in his school magazines and newspaper “Golden Horse “.


ree

 

He goes to watching a movie, while nodding through an (Antonioni film) and this boy meets a

proselytizing girl ,sitting beside him ,the girl offered to boy immediate her apricots and nuts for

his sugar level, spoke to him sharply, and took him home.

 The boy falls in love with her. (The boy changes own appearance during her

Loveness, he gives up taking drugs.

 

The mother tried several times to give up what had become without her son and his friends a

lonely. This effort only brought it to supportable levels.

The boy and the girl took their electronic mimeograph and moved to the busy edge of another

borough and the girl and boy leave the mother. They were very strict. They said they would not

see her again until she had been of drugs for sixty years.

At home alone in the evening, Mother reads and reread the seven issues of oh “Golden Horse “  

& She goes on weeping. The narrator’s often crossed the  street and the visit house where the 

Mother stayed and console her. If the narrator’s mentioned any of many children who were at

College, in hospital or dropouts at home, the mother would cry out ,My baby! My baby and

burst into terrible, face-scarring, time consuming tears.

 

(At her father’s request ,the narrator’s  changes the ending of the story )

The mother not stay at home and she makes a receptionist in a storefront community clinic in the

 East village   and ex-junkie. 

 

The Father dislikes the story, as she has omitted certain details, like mother &

Son appearance (details, Life sketches, characters, appearance), she has portrayed

the mother and her son character’ introduced as an drug addicted (Specially mother).

 

The Father also dislikes this story. The Father also dislikes this story. the father said,

Number One: You have a nice sense of humor. Number two:  I see you can’t tell a plain story.

So don’t waste time. “Then he said sadly, Number three: I suppose that means she was alone,

she was left like that, his mother Alone. probably sick? Narrators said “Yes.”

 

 

The Father’s again objection word is (The end) of the life, Life is not end

But it is a continuously struggle.

 

 

 

 

 

Content by: YouTube channel ilm ki duniya ,(Short stories :A Conversation  with

my father by Grace Paley  Lecture no ,1 and 2)



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