Quotes From Cat's In The Cradle

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In addition our interactions shape us, is when our interactions are with someone we look up to and want to be like. In the song Cat’s in the Cradle, Harry Chapin shows us a story of a boy growing up with a father that was more into spending time at work rather than with his son. The song starts out saying, “When you coming home, dad?” but then goes on to say, “When you coming home son?” (Chapin Stanza 3 and 6). This quote shows how the father was never home and didn’t have as many interactions with the son as the son may have wanted. However, the quote goes on to prove how the son grows up like the father and treats the father the same way he treated him. Proving that the little interactions that the son had with the father shaped the son