Analysis Of Townie

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Essay of Townie “I knew all these things, but I also knew he knew little about us” (Dubus, 333). Townie is a Memoir of Andre Dubus III’s early life from his childhood to his late 40s until his father died. Andre’s parents were divorced in the 1970s; while he was only a teenager. Andre’s father left the family because of having a relationship with his own college student, while Andre and his three siblings grew up in the mill town of Massachusetts. Andre’s mother—Pat—she worked so hard to earn a living for the family. Andre and his siblings were exposed to the drug and alcoholic world because of the neglecting father and the busy mother. As time passes, Andre has visited his father more frequently; their relationship was like friends. In the …show more content…

—Forgiveness is a suite of prosocial motivational changes that happened after a person has incurred a transgression (McCullogh). McCullogh also asserts the forgiveness process includes empathy for the transgressor, generous attributions and appraisals regarding the transgression and transgressor, and rumination abalout the transgression where agreeableness takes a serious place in the person who needs to forgive someone. Andre was impressed by his father’s work, the emotion developed in Andre’s mind have given up revenge and resentment thought to his father. When Andre’s father had an accident that made his legs crushed and had to sit on a wheelchair for the rest of his life; Andre immediately felt how vulnerable people are. He cherished the relationship with his father, in fact after the accident Andre started to cherish everyone besides him. The accident was a trigger to a prosocial motivational change to Andre and his father’s relationship. “But deliver us from evil. Amen” (Dubus, 387). Andre prayed on his father’s funeral. Forgiveness needs something to trigger; Andre understand pop’s condition and forgave him. Andre knew that his father has done the best he could, and he was happy and grateful that he had a father. Moreover, Andre’s life was full of sports, the healing process was impacted by

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