Under the Influence



1. One example of Sander's exibition of other sources to better punctuate his memories of his father is the poem he uses by Theodore Roethke. It's titled "My Papa's Waltz" and goes thus: The whiskey on your breath

Could make a small boy dizzy;

But I hung on like death:

Such waltzing was not easy

Another source he uses is a bible story about the lunatic and the swine.



2. My father's father was a heavy drinker. This affected my father greatly. But mostly, it affected him in a positive way; it caused him to promise himself he'd never touch the stuff himself and that's waht happened. So although my grandfather caused my dad grief similarily like the grief Sander experienced, he also helped my dad to understand how negative and evil such things are, and to ultimately avoid them.



3. The behavior I'de like to cahnge about myself is eating too danm much. I stay in great shape everyday because I'm in sports all year round, but after school finishes, I might not have time to work out because of whatever job I might have, so eating too much might come back to haunt me, and god-forbid, I'll become overweight. So I want to change it from now.