Monday, September 10, 2007
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.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I agree with Amanda on how this is a somewhat wierd point of view from Lott's. I know that I have been through a lot of shit with my own siblings, but I feel that my experiences all the fights and beatings and crying were stages in our growing up.
I feel that without those experiences that we would not be as close as we are. We share memories that no one else can share. Yes, we all can relate to the experiences of others if you have siblings but all experiences are unique. I feel fortunate that I have great relationships with my siblings and it is kind of saddening that the author had some distant feeling for his brother.
I also think that Lott's saw that his own sons were going to have a relationship like his brother and he had. I got confused because if he had a bad or distant relationship with his brother, did that mean that his sons were headed for the same road?
Yeah. It's just different with everybody's family. In this short story of Brett Lotts, rememberence of his brother and relationship now it seems to me it wasn't a good one. I just sense this deep bitter taste from Lott, like there is so much more to say but we don't get everthing in his passage.
Maybe Brett's brother was a complete jerk to him the whole time they were growing up. And maybe the fact he didn't show up to his own brother's wedding either. Maybe he is hiding something like their good times together. During our class time...Josh was saying that there are different sides to us. To everybody. Maybe he was just expressing his tension, tough, bitter side. Or maybe he just really is that.
For me, I really feel he is that way..I feel Lott's is bitter and has awnry angry feelings toward his brother. But what is that something....
Post a Comment