This Project is made to show the main plot points in the story “Father and Son,” using pictures to describe quotes in the story. “Father and Son” follows a Father and his son in their rocky relationship; where the son is very irresponsible, and never tells his father where he is going and the father wants to have a better relationship with his son, and for things to just go back to the good old days when his son was a good boy, and didn’t get into trouble. The son Is angry at his father for always breathing down his neck, and always asking him where he is going. The father is angry at his son, because he never talks to him, and he is sad that they cant be like a true father and son anymore.

Exposition) “He will want to check that I came home last night. He will stand in his bare feet, his shoe and socks in hand, looking at me” (MacLaverty 165).

This quote introduces the father and son because the father clearly cares about the son that he is willing to check on his boy to make sure he came home last night, and it helps the reader get a clear first description of what the father is like setting a scene for who the father is going to be in this story.

 

Initiating Incident) “You should be in your bed. A man of your age. It’s past one.” “Let me make you some tea.” The boy shrugs and sits down. He takes up the paper between him and his father. “What do you be doing out all the time” “Not again” “Answer me” “talking” “Who with?” “Friends, just go to bed, Da, will you?” “What do you talk about?” “Talk to me, son” “What about?”’” (MacLaverty 166).

This Quote shows the struggle the father and son have when communicating to each other. The father wants to know where his son is going, who he is hanging out with, and what they are talking about. but the son just plays dumb.

 

Rising Action) “I want you to talk to me the way I hear you talk to people at the door. I want to hear you laugh with me like you used to” (MacLaverty 166).

This quote shows that the father is very sad that himself and his son cant have a good relationship and laugh together like they used to. So this builds up suspense that possibly the son and the father may laugh together or even they may change and things may go back to what they used to be

 

Rising Action) “Then on the radio, I hear he is dead. They give out his description… I cry. But he comes home for tea “(MacLaverty 167).

This quote shows that the father heard on the radio about someone getting killed and the radio gives out his description, and the father believes that it was the son who was killed and was not very surprised, just sad but he was happy that he came back home. This shows that later on in the story the son may get hurt, and it also adds on to how much we know the father loves his son.

Rising Action) “The door swings open and he pushes a hand-gun beneath the pillow” (MacLaverty 169).

This quote shows that the father finally wanted to see what his son is doing, and when he does he sees a hand-gun. which is the most “Rising action” in the story, because this shows that later on or soon after this event something bad could happen to his child if he is able to get a gun.

 

Climax)  “There is a bang… My son is lying on the floor, his head on the bottom stair, his feet on the threshold”(MacLaverty 169).

This Quote shows the climax of the story when the father rushes in to see what the “bang!” sound was. He saw his son lying on the floor with his head on the bottom of the stair. This shows that the so called friends of the sons that the father talked about earlier had just came into their house and shot the son showing the previous foreshadowing from earlier when the father heard about someone dying on the radio earlier.

 

Falling action)”I take my son’s limp head in my hands and see a hole in his nose that should not be there”(MacLaverty 169).

This quote gives the reader some more info and details about the event after the shooting, and the overall ending of the climax with the last details.

Denouement) “My son, let me put my arms around you” (MacLaverty 169).

This quote shows that only after the son has died that the father finally gets a chance to hug his child, and it also shows that the father finally gets a chance to show his love to him. even if it means he is gone.

 

-Tristan Romani