Penny In The Dust

Questions:

1. I think when the boy feels as if he has "struck" his father, it means that the boy feels he has let him down or disappointed him.

2. I think the father does not return the penny is because if the boy ever loses it again he doesn't want the boy to feel bad for losing it. Also whenever he looks at the penny he will remember this memory he had with his son.

3. Four ways the father shows is love are; putting his arm around him, looking for the penny with his son, crying, being worried about his son when they couldn't find him.

4. The two differences between the worlds are that the father does not show his feelings and the boy does. I think the father feels different emotions, like happy or sad, because at the same time he is probably sad that he knows his son knows that he doesn't show emotion and happy that him and his son had this moment. I think when the boy is watching his father enter this world, its a relief for him because deep down he knew his dad truly cared, but wasn't sure and this was a sense of relief for him to find out for sure.

5. It was the excitement of the boys words that made him tear up, and how happy the boy was when he speaks. The father was so happy because the boy talked about them spending time together, and he saw how happy the boy was when he thought about spending time with him.

6. The symbolism in this story is the penny. The penny symbolizes the love that the father has for the son and that even a penny can mean so much to the little boy because thats all the expression of love the kid ever got from his father.

7. The father has a rough exterior. He is a hard working man, he doesn't express his feelings, my guess is that he thinks if you show your feelings you are not a man, or maybe he just doesn't know how to show his feelings, and has trouble showing his emotions. When the boy is hiding, and they find him only the mother shows emotion, she shows that she has been worried and relieved that they found him, the father just has a blank look on his face and tells the boy he better eat something.