In the poem, “A Story” by Li-Young Lee, a painful but loving relationship with a father and son. Lee uses foreshadowing and a tone shift and an alternating omniscient point of view to display this complex relationship. In the beginning, a father is with his young child who wants a story, but the father can't think of one. The point of view alternates between the father and child but is still third person omniscient. This particular point of view allows for the father to express his concerns about not being able to keep his son home due to running out of stories and eventually growing out of stories, “ soon, he thinks, the boy/will eventually give up on his father”(8-9). The father knows that eventually his son will not want or need his father