My Brother's Keeper Short Story

Our love for our siblings is a very tricky love because we could love them or hate them. We could fight and argue all the times but that our way of showing we love each other. Mr. Geoffrey Philp, the author of the short story called “My Brother 's Keeper.” Show an excellent example of siblings love. The short story illustrates how one misses his father and soon after, he gains a brother. Throughout the story, Umpire, the main character struggle to love his brother because of jealous. The symbol, the point of view and the setting of the story demonstrate that our love for our sibling is unbreakable. To begin with, the first literary elements that help support the theme of the story are their father’s watch. The watch represents their love for their father and something they have in common. In the story, we find of that Umpire’s father had promised him the watch when he comes back to visit him. However, his father never had the chance to give Umpire the watch. When he finds his father had died from a car accident, he was heartbroken and he believes that he was the only that felt that way for his father. Soon after that, he meets David, his half-brother, a

The setting takes place in Jamaica, their cultural and their lifestyle is very different from us who live in the U.S.A. Umpire’s father and mother are not really in love with each other, but they work it out so they could raise their child together. However, he also had another woman, and they had a child together, which is David. Umpire’s mother toke David in like that was her son that shows how caring she is. At first, umpire hates the fact that David was acting like his mom was his mother. After they boned, he didn’t care if David calls his mother, ma.(440). That show that Umpire is starting to care for his brother. The setting helps us understand that our love for our sibling is excellent in many