Divorced Fathers And Pizza Crusts Summary

The divorce rate in America is forty-one percent. About forty percent of those couples have children. Growing up as a child of divorced parents can cause any child a lot of stress and can cause strain on the relationship between parent and child. In “Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts” by Mark Halliday, it shows this relationship. “Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts” shows a father who is transitioning from married life to single life and he is desperately still trying to maintain a relationship with his child. “The Corridor” by Maria Helena Vieira da Silva displays a corridor that does not have a clear ending. “Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts” and “The Corridor” connect because while the father is going through the divorce the future of his

When something is presented in grey and white it does not portray a typically happy photo or painting. Like for example when you look at black and white photographs you see the sadder side of the photo or maybe the more meaningful side. If the photograph is presented as a normal photo with color it will appear to be happier or more full of life. When looking at “Divorced Fathers and Pizza Crusts” I think it is okay to assume that the father sees his life as a black and white photograph. “The connection between divorced fathers and pizza crusts is understandable. The divorced father does not cook confidently” (Lines 1-3). It is clear that the father does not see himself in the full color, he is only seeing the negatives that would stop him from being a successful parent on his own. “There are four slices left and the divorced father doesn’t want them wasted, there has been enough waste already” (Lines 13-15). Another way to see the depth of how he sees the situation is this line. When most people see uneaten pizza that was left to go do something more important they do not sit there and contemplate the waste, they simply just think “Oh we will take it home for leftovers” or even more simply “Oh well next time we will get a different size” and then they go on about their day thinking over more important things. But no this father connected uneaten pizza to the waste that occurs in his life, he

Mainly it obstructs one from seeing what the corridor actually leads to or where it ends. You do not know if the corridor leads to a amazing garden or maybe a beautiful room or if it just ends with a dead end. You can connect this to the father because truly as he is trying to keep his relationship going with his child he honestly does not know what will happen as the years keep flying by. Like The Corridor he does not know if the relationship with his child will end in a flourishing relationship where they are very close or if it will just become minimal or even worse if it will cease to exist. “Now he’s at the door summoning the kids and they follow, of course they do, he’s a dad.” (Lines 24-25) The only thing the father is definitely sure of is that in this current moment he is a father and he is trying to maintain the