A Boy Named Sue
A boy named Sue can be summed up by the title alone, but it can be dissected much deeper to find a much more metaphorical meaning. The poem starts out discussing how a boy at the age of three became fatherless when his dad left him and his mother with nothing but an old guitar, an empty bottle of booze, and the branded name of Sue. Throughout his life, everyone ridiculed him, until he learned that he had to be strong on his own. Because his father deserted him at such an early age, and he had no father figure to take his place, he had to find out the tough way how hard life really was. He finally decided that he needed to search for his father in the towns which he fled to, to escape his identity. He guiltlessly thought of murdering his father for the shame and pain that he had brought to him. After searching in every bar and honky-tonk, in every town he'd been to, he finally found his father in a saloon in Gatlinburg. Although he found his dad, it was purely by coincidence. He found him because he needed to quench his thirst with an alcoholic beverage. While entering the saloon, he noticed a man dealing poker at a table across the bar. Instantly he realized that the one man he was looking
My life compares to this poem in many ways but in a different sense. For instance, my father left my brother, my mother and me when I was about one year old. He didn't leave for good, but he left my mother for another woman and moved a couple of hours away, limiting us to a visit every other week. He also didn't name me Sue, but he constantly put me down and treated me like his slave; he said that was the reason he had kids. In my opinion, my father was very tough on me until I moved out. For instance, before I was in high school, if I were to do anything wrong at all, from leaving my bed unmade to leaving a dish out, I would be forced to write thousands of sentences; and until they were completed, I was not allowed to leave my room unless it was to go to school. If I were to come home with less than an A on my report card, I would be grounded until the next progress report said otherwise. I started working when I was about twelve with odd jobs and with my father, during that time, I didn't expect to see an allowance or any other kind of money, for that matter. When I was growing up, my curfew until I turned eighteen, and graduated from high school was at the latest eleven o'clock. I think the worst thing that my father did was when I went off to college. On the day that he and my step mom took me to college, he told me I was on my own. He said that he was taking the car away for I could no longer use it, he said that he was no longer paying for the remaining balance of my first year of college, and told me that he was not going to help me financially through school. He pretty much told me that since I was out of the house, I was becoming my own man, so he was going to treat me like one. He lived only one hour away and never once came by to see me; he was low enough to come to Wichita and shop but not stop by to see me on the way. For Christmas and my birthday, I didn't even receive a phone call or a card; I sent him a card and didn't even get a reply. Aft
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Approximate Word count = 1335
Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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