So, so, so, so. The topic is random thoughts on Sherman Alexie's collection of short stories Ten Little Indians. In the story, "Whatever happened to Frank Church?" i am curious as to why the main character gives up basketball after the death of his mother. Why does he turn from that opportunity to honor his mother? I will now include a short passage from the story:
He'd given up this game to honor his mother, and now he was reclaiming it to honor his father. He wanted both of them to rise from the dead.
I've got some parenting to do now. Read to my dc (dear children). I'm on to Alice through the Looking Glass; we finished Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
I will say that tonight I may re-read that story and search for meaning in the parental-child relationships. Maybe authors don't pay that much attention to what they're saying about such matters, like maybe Alexie didn't calculate his meaning as much as I'd like to find the meaning that is there.
~liz
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