Comparing Brad Manning’s Arm Wrestling With My Father and Itabari Njeri

Comparing Brad Mannings on the spur of the moment story fort Wrestling With My Father, and Itabari Njeris When Morpheus Held Him The relationship between a go and watchword stems from an unspoken competition in many countries. Whether it is a physical or mental rivalry the superior role slowly transcends on to the password as he grows into a man. In Brad Mannings short story Arm Wrestling With My Father, and Itabari Njeris When Morpheus Held Him, both contain admiring passwords and impassive fathers. Despite both stories similarities in unspoken emotions they differ in the construction of their physical relationships. This unrequited bond between a father and son in these stories portray various types of love. Throughout Brad Mannings tale about lace wrestling he refers to his father as the arm or the master with clenched fists. The embodiment of his father in these charge limbs shows the dominating figure once held over him. Daddy, was the however personal make up Itabar i Njeris father allowed him to say. If Njeri did not settle for Daddy, Dr. Moreland would have to due. There is a sterile and clinical connotation in referring ones father as Doctor. Mannings states, the man would win, also giving an impersonal and snappy feeling to his strong father. But this impersonal name was not laboured upon Manning as Njeris father had done. Mannings father-son matches battling arm against arm was their only means of communication. Manning decodes his fathers crude ritual,...