Indledning
Freedom and human rights, isn’t that funny? We live in a society, where students don’t have a say in their lives. Parents are making choices for their children believing so, that it will benefit them.
Some use verbal abuse to show dominance and to make their child feel entirely small compared to them. Is this even the right way to raise your kids?
Arrhondia puts a question mark on that in her short story “Tom Corridan”, where we are introduced to a young Irish student, who wants to go to university, but his father has other plans for him.
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Uddrag
It seems that Tom’s mother a stay at home mother, from the few information we get about her, as she prepares dinner for the family;
“I have to go get Da from the pub in a minute, otherwise Ma says he’ll stay there all night and not come home for his dinner.” (P. 1, line 13-14). This text excerpt shows that the family priorities the stereotypical roles for women and men.
The social setting in the story shows how much responsibility the parents expect from their kids when they are in the lower class.
Because of the hardships of the low incomes, Frank practically forbids Tom from going to University and studying.
He insists he gets a job immediately to help keep a roof over the family’s head, which shows how much pressure the children may feel.
Tom Corridan is the protagonist of the story. He is a teenager, which can be guessed, as he is trying to get into University to study. He lives in Cherryfield Road with his father Frank, mother and little brother Joe.
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