The Road To My Jetting Analysis

1. Who is telling the story?

The story is told in first person by the young boy. This is made evident through the authors use of words such as, my, me, we, and, I. The author also provided evidence leading us to the conclusion that the boy is young when the boy’s father says, “‘…but someday you’ll get your licence…’” (2). As already stated we can see the boy is not yet of age to get a licence.

2. Who is responsible for the situation of the story and why?

The father is responsible for the situation the two of them end up in. This is obvious when the narrator states “But as we were checking out of the lodge that morning it began to snow, and in this snow he observed some rare quality that made it necessary for [them] to get in one last run.

How does the reader know that the son is disappointed in the father’s decision to keep skiing? Use an example from the story.

The author made it easy to show the boy was disappointed in his father’s decision to sky on. Firstly, the boy was anxious and miserable. We know this because he, the boy, says “he was indifferent to my fretting” (1). Also the boy wanted to be home instead of skiing, telling us that he could imagine everything such as “the green tablecloth, the plates with the holly pattern, the red candles waiting to be lit” (1). From this reader could tell that the boy was at all amused with to keep skiing.

4. How does the reader know that the father regrets his decision to stay longer? Use an example from the

As they are leaving the lodge to go home, they come across a road blockage and are forced to turn back. When the father and son are at the diner, the father is anxious to leave. As they were sitting at the diner the father repeated said “come on, come on” to himself as in he could not wait to leave. The reader was reassured of this when the father notices the police car going by and quickly rushed out and made his way towards to the barricade. He was in a rush to get the boy home because the father was already on the mother’s bad side. The father wanted the family to be complete again and if he did not get the boy by the evening on Christmas Eve, he would ruin all chances of that happening altogether. We know the wants to get back together with his wife, when he makes purposes the idea to the son, stating “I’ll tell you what I want. I want us all to be together again…” (2). This is why the father is in a rush to get the boy home and regrets his decision to ski