Thanksgiving

                This Thanksgiving I am very thankful for my family.  This Thanksgiving I am spending the weekend with my mom’s family in Saint Louis.  When I think about my family I am thankful because of how lucky I am to have them all still.  My grand-father was a full colonel in the Vietnam War so for him to have survived is something that I am very thankful for.  Many people that had family in the Vietnam War were not as lucky as I am.  I am also thankful for my grand-mother.  She had a heart attack a few years ago and I cannot imagine my life without her.  She helped me and is still helping me to be the best that I can be and has always supported me in everything that I do.  I am also thankful because of my aunt.  A few years ago she had breast cancer and after that she lost her job.  However she fought through and has since gotten married and has an even better job than before.  Finally I am thankful for my parents.  They do so much work for me and my siblings to be happy.  My dad drives my sister and I to school on the way to work and after school my mom drives all four of us out to Schaumberg for soccer practice.  When I look at my family I see how lucky I am and it makes me very thankful.

Cormac McCarthy interview

A major theme in The Road that Cormac McCarthy talks about in his interview with the Wall Street Journal is the relationship between father and son.  In the book the father to son relationship is the very center of that type of relationship.  The things that cause this relationship to be less loving at times in our world are gone.  In the world we live in today kids fight a lot with their parents so this super close relationship between the father and the son that we can see in The Road is a lot less obvious.  However when you look past all the trivial arguments that kids have with their parents I think that most father to son relationships are similar to in the book.  In his interview with The Wall Street Journal Cormac McCarthy talks about three letters that he got from fathers who had read his book.  He says that they all said the same thing, they had started reading his book after dinner and finished it early the next morning and afterwards had just gone up and held their sons close.  I think that Cormac McCarthy does a great job getting to the very center of the father son relationship in his book he shows that when all those unimportant fights are removed the bond between father and son is a very powerful one.