Stones
Most people wrote about the connections between Stones and The Red Convertible, or the connections between Stones and the war that took place in the time the story took place. I want to look at the relationship that the father has with the child and the rest of the family before and after the war. Before the war, the son remembers his father as a tough man, who had high expectations however he was still genuine and nice to the mother, and never used violence as a means of communicating with his children. After the war the father came home and he was a completely different man. He was very angry and he often had violent breaks in his unusually calm behaviour. Not only did his personality change but so did his appearance. When the mother saw him it said she closed her eyes against him, like she didn’t want to see what he looked like because he had changed so much and he looked so much more sad and angry. The short story also says the episode when the father pulls the son off of his top bunk and slams him into a wall. It is a very violent outbreak and it really shows the effect that the war can have on someone. A man who was nice and loving towards his kids was now a man that beat them, and made them do unreasonable things (such as closing the curtains only on certain nights.) I really think that this story shows the effects that war had on families and how it tore them apart when the men couldn`t be changed after coming home.
This is a website that has an article about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which was a very common disorder that men returning from war possessed.
http://www.medicinenet.com/posttraumatic_stress_disorder/article.htm
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