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Short Story - Just Like That by Michael Richards

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This short story tells about a boy to become a man or is it. The title we have read is "Just Like That . This title indicated how easy to become a man, the father think he could train his son to kill a kangaroo and then be a man. The father show his son how to kill a kangaroo, but the son thinks is not too easy. The father shows his son how it easy to shoot an animal with guns just like that, the boy does not really feels anything he is a bit disappointed that when he shot his first kangaroo. The boy does not argue again with his dad, he has to walk beside him all the time. So what he really teaching his son is, that other people say without questioning. Understand why the boy shot the animal without any reason and just like that, it is necessary to look the relationships between the father and the son. The boy make what his dad says, many time the father tell his son to walk behind him, and the son is very scary when he tells the boy to shot the kangaroo. The father sees himself what is right for his son but without any explanations. The father think when his son kill a kangaroo, he will be a man. The father think what his like, will his son also like. The son has a hard childhood because this old is very low, and he can see what is right and wrong. That's why the society need to responsibility the father to see what he doing right and wrong, the father show his son a military discipline. Like he said walk behind me and shot without any reason and not ask why. The theme of this story is growing up, because what he father would to see his son, could be a man. The narrator want us to learn no to something you don't like, and the problem is this story is his son can ´t say no to his father, because that could be a big problem when you growing up and can't say no That will be easy for other people to make you do a wrong thing. Because if someone no tell you do wrong thing, you will never learn you mistake. The author would tell us the

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