Loss Of Childhood In Heat By Mike Lupica

In Mike Lupica’s average but meaningful book, “Heat”, the main character ( and along with his brother) sustained a terrible moment in their childhood. Michael now 12 and in the early stages of becoming a man, was lost in a new world with only his brother to truly help him. As Michael and Miguel where now on their own as their everything: protector, caregiver, provider, teacher, and most of all their father. Unable to make ends meet without their father Miguel who is 17 at the time has to have two jobs to support him and his brother. Bringing to an end to their precious childhood in which they now have to face reality. Though Lupica has not been through what Michael has, he does not leave any room for lack of emotion. Lupica reveals the story mostly through the eyes of Michael. Michael is not simply just an ordinary boy, however. The author knows, for

Michael who was now father less “unable to play baseball because he had no way of getting a hold of his birth certificate, that was all the way back in cuba” (page 69). When Michael learns of his father's death, he knows that there will "a void has now open that can never be closed" (page 50). There will be son who can not bare the loss of their father "He was the one to support me in everything I did, he was my go to" (page 51). Michael acknowledges that his father loved him. Papi (michaels name for his father) had only ever looked at Michael and his brother with love and amazing (Page 70). This information implies to the reader that Papi was not a bad man; he simply believes that it is his right, and perhaps his obligation as a husband, to direct Mrs. Mallard in everything she does. When Michael learns of his father's death, he realizes that he will no longer be there to support him; there will be no one, save him, to direct his will. Then, in a crushing blow, everything he has just realized and begun to look forward to is stolen from his