Brothers

Bret Lott's Essay Brothers shows a familiar relationship between two brothers. An obvious important relationship that the author finds dear to his heart. I found it interesting and ironic that Lott's description of his brother wasn't obviously close. As if his memories of them growing up weren't very favorable. Although he remembers them with a great deal of significance, most of his memories aren't of him and his brother being really close. Rather what he remembers specifically is actually them fighting. If I were writing a piece on how close I am to one of my siblings I don't believe I would be recalling all of the disappointing memories I have of them. But then he focuses on a picture they took after they were grown. He was in love with this one picture. Maybe he saw that picture as what he really wanted their relationship to be like. Then he observes that his own two son's relationship is much like his relationship with his brother. Hopefully realizing that they aren't close now but he has hope that will be as "close" as he was with his brother. I think this essay is just a weird view point that he has as a younger brother, and there's not anything necessarily wrong with that. His viewpoint wasn't something I could specifically relate to, but I can as the youngest of four see the wanting to be close with my siblings. That idea is very familiar to me.