4. Sick
The father has a problem with his health. He always coughs up blood. The author does not give clues about the causes of his blood coughing. Day by day his coughing is
getting worst and his body becomes weak. Actually, the man has anticipated the bad effect of the ashes in the air for his respiration. He usually wears a cotton mask when walking
down the roads but the ashes may perpetually get in his lungs that precipitate his hacking cough.
Already it was hard going and he stopped often to rest. Slogging to the edge of the road with his back to the child where he stood bent his hands on his knees,
coughing. He raised up and stood with weeping eyes. On the gray snow a fine mist of blood 30.
Later he walked up the beach, his long shadow reaching over the sands before him, sawing about him the wind in the fire. Coughing. Coughing. He bent over, holding
his knees. Taste of blood. The slow surf crawled and seethed in the dark and he thought about his life but there was no life to think about and after a while he
walked back 254. Meanwhile, the father has to grapple with his blood coughing. He has to be able to
restrain his coughing when he and his son are hiding from the cannibals who want to catch them. He works hard to make sure there is no sound that can make the cannibals know his
hideaway. They lay in the leaves and the ash with their hearts pounding. He was going to start
coughing. He’d have put his hand over his mouth but the boy was holding on to it and would not let go and in the other hand he was holding the pistol. He had to
concentrate to stifle the cough and at the same time he was trying to listen 118.
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Based on the direct comment and mannerism, it is obvious that the father is sick. He coughs up blood and there is nothing he can do to cure it. He also has to grapple with
stifling his coughing in order to avoid the cannibals find his hideaway.
5. Affectionate
The father is a parent who loves his son so much. He always consoles his son when he is sad and afraid. For a child the moment when getting a new experience is strange and
frightening, he will feel terrified and find someone that can comfort him. In this case, the son feels secure when the father tells him that everything is going to be all right.
Papa? The boy said. Papa? Shh. It’s okay.
What is it, Papa? It neared, growing louder. Everything trembling. Then it passed beneath them like
an underground train and drew away into the night and was gone. The boy clung to him crying, his head buried against his chest. Shh. It’s all right.
I’m so scared. I know. It’s all right. It’s gone.
What was it, Papa? It was an earthquake. It’s gone. We’re all right. Shh 27-28.
In the middle of the night, his son wakes up and he looks very attentive. He tells his father that he has just had a bad dream. His father listens to his explanation about his dream
carefully. The father tells him that it is just a dream and he admits that he has no clues why his son dreams it. However, he convinces that nothing bad will happen to him.
He woke whimpering in the night and the man held him Shh, he said. Shh. It’s okay.
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I had a bad dream. Should I tell you what it was?
If you want to. I had this penguin that you wound up… it was really scary.
Okay. It was a lot scarier in the dream.
I know. Dreams can be really scary. Why did I have that scary dream?
I don’t know. But it’s okay now. I’m going to put some wood on the fire. You go to sleep 37.
Furthermore, the father always reads his son stories before he sleeps. He wants him to be happy and to have a good sleep. After that, he will sleep late to watch if the cannibals
come and to put more wood on the fire in order to warm their bodies. He banked the fire against the seam of rock where he’d built it and he strung up the
tarp behind them to reflect the heat and they sat warm in their refuge while he told the boy stories. Old stories of courage and justice as he remembered them until the
boy was asleep in his blankets and then he stokes the fire and lay down warm and full and listened to the low thunder of the falls beyond them in the dark and
threadbare wood 42. When all of their clothes are wet, the father will set up the fire and warm his son with his
body. He does not care if he will be sick because of it. He also gives the last food they have to his son when they almost run out of food. He would rather drink water so that his son
can eat their last food for that day. He sorted through the cans and went back and they sat by the fire and ate their
crackers and a tin of sausage. In a pocket of his knapsack he’s found a last half
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packet of cocoa and fixed for the boy and then poured his own cup with hot water and sat blowing at the rim 34.
They collected firewood from the north side of the slope where it was not so wet, pushing over whole tress and dragging them into the camp. They got the fire going
and spread their tarp and hung their wet clothes on poles to steam and stink and they sat wrapped in the quilts naked while the man held the boy’s feet against his
stomach to warm him 36. Based on reaction and mannerism, the father is clearly affectionate. He always
wants to make his son comfortable and understand what he feels. He even sacrifices his body in order to warm his son.
6. Responsible
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