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“Stop the sun” by Gary Paulson is a short story about a boy named terry, a young athletic boy trying to be the best form of himself he can be, is having an issue at home. His dad, a Vietnam veteran, is having some flashbacks and Terry is embarrassed by it. Terry has so many questions about Vietnam, but he does not know who to ask, since his dad hates talking about what it was like. Terry, being ashamed of his dad for having ptsd attacks, is scared to ask his teacher what Vietnam is like because he does not want anybody to know his dad was in vietnam. Through the actions and characters, Gary Paulson successfully shows the readers the conflict between Terry, and his dad, and how sometimes a person can never understand another person fully.
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Terry is very embarrassed by his fathers actions, even ashamed. While Terry is at school, “he stayed after class and tried to talk to Mr. Carlson , who taught history. But some part of Terry was embarrassed. He didn't want to say why he wanted to know about Vietnam, so he couldn’t be specific.” (page 64) Terry knows that something had happened to his dad in Vietnam, but he is embarrassed by his fathers actions. This idea shows that sometimes a person can not understand another person to the full extent.
moreover, Terry and his family go to the mall and split up. “His father went to the hardware store, Terry went to a record store to look at albums. “Terry browsed for so long that he was late meeting his father at the mall's front door. But his father wasn't there, and Terry looked out to the car to make sure it was still in the parking lot. It was, and he supposed his father had just gotten busy, so he waited.” (page 65) it is at this moment that Terry had just assumed that his father was busy, but little does he know, his father was having an