Why honey

I read Why, Honey? by Raymond Carver.
It tells about a mother who is in awkward situtation. His son is a normal kid who is doing great in school, sometimes boy occurs with outbursts. Suddenly , when the boys puberty arrives he starts to get very creepy. Familys cat disappears , next day after the disappearence mother finds out that the son had something to do with the cat disappearing .  Moms neightbour tells that the she saw the boy with firecrackers and him putting the firecracks in the trudys (trudy was the cat) ears and god knows where else . Mother asks about the event from the son  , the boy acts very surprised but that night also says that dont take it too hard, mom.
Son gets to work afternoons and saturdays as a stockboy, when his paycheck arrives he lies about the amount of money he had gained. His mother finds this behaviour very strange. Mother starts to get worried about his child . He comes up with questions like ; why does his boy lie to her? What kind of satisfaction the boy gets for lying to her mother?
Boy obtains a gun and a knife , her mother is very much against his decision to obtain them.
One saturday night boy didnt come home . Mother worried herself into sleep . Next sunday the mother wanted to know what had happened on the saturday night . Mother found that the boys boots were dirty , she asked about that and boy answered he had run out of gas.
Mother wanted to know more , she took the car keys while the boy was in shower. Mother found out that the gun and the knife was in the trunk , that was normal but then there was an shirt full of blood.
Couple days later the boy got kicked out of his workplace.
One night mother had not been able to sleep , he heard the boy pulling home . Mother asked would the boy have a cup of tea but the boy just freaked and said very rudely . Mother had to cry herself to sleep.
Mother decided to ask about why the boy was doing such things, the boy freaked out and said that the mother would have to kneel for him . Boy left the house that night.
Later the mother started to see his boys name in tv and newspapers. The boy was got into politics , he ran for governor and got elected.
Mother tells that she should be proud of his son, but he isnt. She is afraid that he is now being spied . Mother is so afraid of his son that she had to change her phone adress to an unlisted one ,home adress, and even her name.

 

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