A Father’s Story

Stories often nurse a main reputation that is centered on because he/she fails at some responsibility of theirs or falls short of their goal. In A Fathers bosh written by Andre Dubus, Luke Ripley is a theatrical role that succeeds in his responsibilities as a father. Luke shows love, compassion and above all a protective dis survey and lust to help his daughter. He emphasizes that he is very religious although perhaps non very devout. All of these characteristics help him fulfill his fatherly duties to his daughter during her appease at his hall. Luke has had an interesting life preceding the main counterbalancets of the fiction.He has alienated his entire family, making him al genius in a large house with nothing entirely horses and a radio to keep him company. Despite those trials, Luke has it wrong him to continually show love to his family when they do return, especially to his daughter even though she kills a man. Andre Dubus emphasizes this love and compassion Lu ke has through some of the understate information he gives leading up to the main events of the story. Dubus shows small details that Luke a centers his attention on and the efforts that Luke puts forth to try and love his family aft(prenominal) they leave him.There in like manner comes a point in the story where Lukes hearts longing to love as he calls it, makes him bitter with Father Paul. Lukes knowledge with Father Paul brings intimately another very interesting character trait in Luke. This is his religious side. Based on the way that Luke recounts the events of his life, worship is a mayor part and focus of his life. He seems not to be very devout and strict he says that being a really Catholic is too hard. Still though, he goes to each Sunday pickle and Father Paul is his best, and in truth his moreover friend.Luke wakes up ahead of time each morning and rides his horse to the church. Luke falters only twice as cold as his chastity and marriage beliefs are concer ned and he describes those twain incidents as having been in the distant past and not a reoccurring habit. Luke also realizes that he cannot force or tell his children what to believe but he still tries to point them in the direction that he believes to be right. Luke explains that his theology and Father Paul help to keep him company and keep him warm when his family left him.The main focus of this story however is not about Lukes love and compassion, or his religion it is about just his fatherly instinct and confide to protect and help his daughter. The entire story, up till the finish Top point, is aimed at Lukes ability to empathize with his daughter and provide her with the relaxation and help that she needs. First of all, Jennifer is the youngest child, the baby in the family. This automatically puts her in the position to receive more attention and care from her father. Jennifer also seems to be the one that visits her father the most often and for the longest periods o f time.Luke enjoys the time that he gets to shake off with his daughter. He relishes in the little details and subtle changes that take belongings over time. He points out how they are growing up and acquiring steadily more mature. Luke shows us that he understands and empathizes with his daughter and her transformation into a young adult when he says, it was womanhood they were entering, the deep forest of it, and no matter how many women and men too are saying these geezerhood that there is little difference between us, the truth is that men witness their way into that forest only on clearly marked trails, succession women move about in it like birds.Jennifer then wakes her father in the middle of the night to tell him that she has just hit a man, and qualification have killed him. This is enough to test any fathers love, patience, and temper. But Luke rises to the occasion and his character doesnt falter he firsts comforts his daughter and learns the whole story of what has interpreted place and what has upset her so badly. Then by and by she has calmed down, and only after she has calmed down, Luke leaves to try and find this man.The result is that Luke finds the man, and watches him die because he is powerless to redeem him at this point, he does not tell his daughter this, he only says that the man is dead. Then Luke says something interesting, he tells us If one of my sons had come to me that night, I would have phoned the police and told them to meet us with an ambulance at the top of the agglomerate I could bear the pain of watching and knowing my sons pain but never my daughters. This illustrates with perfect clarity Lukes special love for his daughter and desire to protect her in a way that varies greatly from that of his feelings for his sons. Stories often have a main character that is centered on because he/she fails at some responsibility of theirs or falls short of their goal. In A Fathers Story written by Andre Dubus, Luke Ripley is a character that succeeds in his responsibilities as a father.