I read a novel ”Why, Honey” by Raymond Carver. The novel is about worried mother and her son. She write a letter to someone and tells everything about his son and his mystic hobbies. She tells how she saw when the son brought for example a shotgun and a hunting knife to their own house. Son starts to act strangely and always lie about everything. Then the mother decides that she have to ask about these things but they ended up to a big fight and the mother had to ran to her room and locked it. She is afraid of his own son. After all this, she haven’t seen her son. Son has became really famous politician and elected to governor. Mother has changed her name, address, phone number and moved out of the city but she can’t live without those fears. She should be a proud mom but all she can think is her fears.
I think the mother’s claims was justified and she did the right thing when she asked about her son’s lies and hobbies. There was something going on and everything not seemed to be fine. The big fight wasn’t her fault and the son acted too strongly.
When I read this text, I really felt the mother’s fears and the text is really scary at some point. You can just imagine what would you do if you have this same problem someday. I can’t say was the son really dangerous or did the mother just imagine all this? I think that the mother write to herself or actually someone who had noticed the same things have write the letter to her. Maybe someone of his politics friends. They might have really big problem if there is someone who is really messed up in politics.
short story was really interesting and you really can’t know what would happen next. All you can do is imagine. Was the mother crazy and unreasonable? If you were the son, how could you react those claims?
