The Father Son Banquet Of Johnny Jupain

Johnny’s mother starts talking to the father about the father son banquet, because Johnny is too shy and nervous himself. Before the scout boy meeting Johnny’s father has a couple of drinks to make him seem “normal”. When Johnny goes home he and his mother have an argument about this manner. the main issue of the story is not getting Johnny’s father to communicate with him and he doesn’t pay much attention. Johnny’s father has a drinking problem this has led to not having a great father son bond. Also because of this Johnny has learned to do everything on his own. Also when Johnny is walking with his father his father tries to connect with him but Johnny doesn’t want to because of the fact that he is a drunk and he doesn’t behave well. Johnny’s father shows that he has to have alcohol to get through a social event. The climax takes place when Johnny’s father walks …show more content…
The mood in the story changes when the story goes on. But sometimes you can feel how it feels like loneliness, sadness, anger etc. the story makes you feel as if there would be this huge gap between the father and the son which there is but you can really feel it. “The boy strode along beside him, his hands shoved deep into his pockets, even now managing to convey the distance that separated them.” You can feel how the boy doesn’t want anything to do with his father, he just walks beside him but not rally with him. “ . “When he looked down to face the boy the room swam before his eyes,” this would be an example of personification that occurs in the climax of the story. “He noticed the two Second World War medal ribbons on the man's left breast, and knew the scoutmaster had never left the country.” This would be an example of symbolism, they are symbolizing the ribbons to never leaving a country. “Smell of hymnbooks and varnish that carried him back to his choir-boy days.” A smell of books cannot actually carry you anywhere so this would be a personification. Giving a non-human thing human