Word: younger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drunken and beat up father tells the older brother he is not his son, a theme of uncertainty reminiscent of earlier Southern writers William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren. In anguish, the older brother orders the younger one not to call him by his name. He feels he has no identity, that he belongs to no one and deserves no name...
Ironically, the older brother adopts the alcoholism and abusiveness of the father, constantly needing "medicine" to make it through the moment and hitting his younger brother in a drunken rage. But he is not just "mean," as his younger brother describes him at one point. The teenager is looking for salvation, journeying within the city limits, searching for good...
...novel experiments with modes of narration. Vilmure borrows Faulkner's method of narrating through more than one persona, as each brother tells part of the story. The younger brother's narration is skillfully executed, as he relates what a child sees. Vilmure follows the boy's mind processes perceptively and eloquently...
...their home, as well as a monthly magazine called the Christian Parent. Ruth Simon recalls, "When we went into business, we didn't have a dime of our own." A monthly treat was a Sunday after-church lunch at the Rex Cafe in downtown Eugene, where Paul and his younger brother Arthur would order chicken a la king for 35 cents...
...wonderful parents and a wonderful childhood," she says tautly. "I only wish it hadn't ended when I was seven years old." In that year her parents joined a quasi-religious organization whose members were mostly affluent and conservative. "They wanted to save the world," says Glenn's younger sister Jessie. "In the process, this cult split up our family." The elder Closes moved to the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), where Glenn's father, a physician, ran a clinic. The children were left in various boarding schools in Switzerland and Connecticut...