Walking Out
...nd spending time with him. Although David’s father does not act like he cares about David in some parts of the story but, deep down the reader sees he does. On the way to the cabin from the train station, David and his father ride in a jeep called a Willy. It is raining and the jeep doesn’t have a roof. David’s father gives him his jacket to cover up with. This showed David’s father worried about his health and well being. Trying to communicate and relate events back to David his father discuss who his father was. David’s father asked, “ Do you remember your grandfather, David? (111). David lied and said he did even though he died when David was three. He remembered a funeral but not whom it was for or anything else. They discussed how David’s grandfather use to bring him up to the mountains and hunt. The cabin, which David and his father were going to stay in, belonged to David’s grandfather. David’s father told him, “And someday you’ll have a son and you’ll be forty years older than him, and you’ll want so badly for him to know who you are that you could cry” (111). Even though David’s father did not always act like he wanted a relationship with him, this shows the reader that deep down he did. The father shows that he still has feelings for David’s mother though they are still divorced. David lied to his father when he asked about his mother. David’s father asked, “Did she tell you any messages for me?” (109). David replied with, “She said… she said I should give you her love. “(109). In reality, David’s mother was more than likely the one who wanted the divorce in the first place that shows later on in the story. He told his father the lie because he didn’t want to hurt his feelings. He did not want to see him hurt. In some parts of the story, David’s father becomes distant. He is a serious man who often becomes angry at little things. When David and his father were hunting one day, they came across a dead moose. “Four days, the boy’s father guessed. The moose had been shot at least eighteen times with a .22 pistol”(112). This made David’s father angry because someone had just left it there. His father became distant, “For the next three hours, with his father withdrawn into a solitary and character bitterness, the boy felt abandoned” (112). They did not hunt anymore. David could not understand why his father got so upset over the moose and he wouldn’t explain why either. This shows the reader the father did not have his son’s best interest in mind, also this awkward silence for hours could be a element that caused David’s father and mother to divorce. This situation made the son feels real uncomfortable. The father could have at least explained where he was coming from and why he was so upset. By the end of the story, David had turned into a man, which is what his father desired to happen. David and father shot an elk, though while the father was cleaning it David gets attacked by a bear when he attempting to get some water out of a near by river. On accident while the ...