For One More Day Response

Manjot Kailey

Ms. McCloskey

English – 4

January 12, 2015

For One More Day

In the novel For One More Day by Mitch Albom published in 2006, the main character is Charley “Chick” Benetto. Charley Benetto was told by his father that he can be either mama’s boy or daddy’s boy, but he can’t be both. Charley loved Baseball so he choose his father, who always wanted his son to become a baseball player. Charley always wanted his father’s approval but never realized that he is rejecting his mother’s love by following his father’s footsteps. Charley regrets many things throughout the course of the novel, but the most significant one is the Old Timers’ Game.

First of all, Charley regret going to the Old Timers’ Game because he left his mother’s birthday

In the beginning of the novel, Charley’s father was criticizing his mother’s food. The father looked at Charley and asked him what he thinks about the food. “It’s not right,” I mumbled, looking at my father. (54) Charley’s father told him that that he can be either mama’s boy or daddy’s boy, but he can’t be both and he picked his father. Furthermore, Charley’s father called Posey but Charley picked up the phone and then he told Charley to come play in the Old Timers’ Game. Charley had to pick between his mother and father. Charlie had a choice to stay with his mother on her birthday but he left his mother because his father told him to play in a game. “Looking back on that conversation, there are many things I’d asked. Did he give a shoot that his ex-wife was having a birthday? Did he want to know how she was feeling? Who was there? What the house looked like? If she even thought about him? Fondly? Badly? At all?” (160) Charley want to fix things that happened but it’s too late and he wish he stayed with his mother that day. In this way, Charley regret going to the

“My mother used to start her sentences with “Be a good boy ...,” as in "Be a good boy and take out the garbage…” or "Be a good boy and run to the store…” But with one phone call, the good boy I had been when I arrived that day had taken a powder, and another boy had taken his place.” (160, 161) Charley faked that phone call because he needed an excuse to leave the house and he did all that for a game that his father told him to play in. Charley regret having not been with his mother at the time of her death and if given another chance to live that same day again, he would do anything to fix it. In this way, Charley regret going to the