Literary Focus: Literary Analysis:
Question #5: Compare and Contrast Terry and his mother support his father in different ways. What do these differences tell us about them?
Terry's mother tries to ignore her husband's syndrome. She tries not to talk about Terry's father's past and his syndrome too. I think she tries to block the reality and just wants to live a normal life. She thinks that it's best to not remind her husband of his past and hurt him in the process. She is the type of person that finds it better to ignore a problem rather than confront it.
Terry, on the other hand, wants to know more about the syndrome and even though he tries to ignore the syndrome when it bothers him, he can't. Terry is very curious of his father's past and wants to find out more about it one way or the other. He wants understand his father's problem by asking his mother, teacher and later his father about it. Terry thinks it's better to confront the problem and deal with it rather than ignore it. In this aspect, he is totally different from his mother.
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