A Visit To Grandma

A detailed Summary of A Visit To Grandma

In the short story A Visit to Grandmother by William Melvin Kelley a hero's

Journey unfinished by the author, bring us into the world of a man who felt self pitying and blame his mother for the lack of love in his adolescence to a self confident and secure person at the end.

In this world more care about money than people and more worry about small things than the family unit, brings people into family discussions and frustrations everyday. In the story A Visit to Grandmother Doctor Charles Dunford a gentle and warm man who overcomes the frustration of his painful past, start his hero's journey when he decided to separate from his family at the age of fifteen.

"I wanted to go to school. They didn't have a Negro school at home, so I went up to Knoxville and lived with a cousin and went to school", this was the answer of Doctor Charles Dunford when he is asked why he left home, but the truth hide something more painful and difficult to overcome. 30 years later Charles decided to go attend his college class reunion in Nashville, a class reunion that only last a week, than after the reunion Charles have a Call to Adventure "the reunion had lasted a week. As they packed for home, his father, in a far too offhand way, had suggeste

Relationships between brothers not always are like mothers would like to be; there would be usually fights and competition for attention or love from their parents. In this story Charles have a brother call GL, a brother who always get the attention of his mother the attention that Charles never had. "I paid mind to GL, I had to .GL could-a ended up swinging if I hadn't" this words of Charles mother show how she always was more care about GL than any of her other children's. Of course this lack of attention did not make happy to Charles and make him more frustrated and sad. In the table Charles mother start to tell the story of GL and a horse that he trade it for an old chair, GL decided to take his mother for a ride into the town, then the horse start to gallop, and the mother said to GL "now you ain't joking with your mama, is you? Because if you is, I'll strap your purple if I live through this." But it wasn't GL, the horse was out of control, until his mother stops the horse in a brave maneuver, his mother said to Charles "then you don't remember how we all laughed" and Charles answer, "No, I don't Mama. And I probably wouldn't have laughed. I don't think it was funny", these words of his mother and the story she told in the table, starts to open the hiding feelings that Charles had been hiding for a long time. Charles did not find this funny at all, because he knew if he did the same thing, his mother probably would punish him. After this it was just a matter of time that would make Charles t

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Approximate Word count = 1015
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English