Go Fight Win By Kevin Wilson Character Analysis

The most influential people in a child’s early life are their parents. Parents are typically the ones who raise the children and teach them how they are supposed to live in the future effectively shaping their personalities. Kevin Wilson uses extremes in his short stories to highlight the degree to which parents affect their children’s development. In many of his stories whether the parents are present or not their effect on the child whatever their current age is evident. Parents who are not around leave their children feeling isolated in his stories such as Go Fight Win. The main character, having a distant relationship with her own mother, distances herself from other people even when they try to reach out to her. Similarly in the story

In this short story a girl and her mother move to a new town where they are along after going through a divorce. The mother must work long hours to keep their family profitable while her daughter goes to school. Because the mother works long hours her and her daughter rarely see each other. This creates a very distant relationship between the two which at some times even feels awkward. Being alone most of the time, the daughter becomes accustomed to taking care of herself and being alone. Her mother convinces her to join the cheerleading team at school to get her more involved with others but it only provided more discomfort. Because the mother is not around often the daughter’s personality develops and formed her into more of a lone wolf. She pushes others away from her even when they attempt to reach out to her as the other cheerleaders did from time to time. If the mother and daughter in this story had a better, stronger relationship it is likely that the daughter would not keep to herself as much and consequently would not make the decisions that lead to her injury later on in the story. This highlights the importance of developing a strong parent child relationship and maintaining it even when it becomes difficult. Wilson again goes to extremes to make the effect that parents have on their child’s personalities as obvious as