On pg. 27 Erik is critiquing his daughters choice to move from Scranton. What I find interesting in this dialogue exchange are Erik’s personal views. Generally speaking, parents want for children to grow up, leave and make something of themselves. However, Erik scolds his daughters for moving away from the “slums” (as Brigid calls Scranton). Nonetheless, Erik defends his hometown urging his girls to have a bit more pride and respect for the place they come from. In a larger sense, we can see how this section of dialogue relates back to a lesson the author, Stephen Karam had to learn when he left his hometown to go to Brown University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On pg. 27 Erik is critiquing his daughters choice to move from Scranton. What I find interesting in this dialogue exchange are Erik’s personal views. Generally speaking, parents want for children to grow up, leave and make something of themselves. However, Erik scolds his daughters for moving away from the “slums” (as Brigid calls Scranton). […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stephen-haram"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}