Powder †Story Analysis Essay

Powder is a straightforward story about an adolescent boy and his amaze on a ski trip. It is a first person story written from the boys exhibit of view who is also a key character in this story. The parents are separated or divorced the tiro has promised to have the boy back to his mother in time for Christmas even dinner. But the father tarries, deciding to get in a some more runs, and by the time they set off, the mountain road they must(prenominal) take is closed and guarded by a state trooper. at last the trooper leaves his post and the father decides to risk the snow-covered road. In this story, e realthing seems to point to disaster. The narrator (an older version of the boy) consistently conveys a sense of worry, at first only that he will be late for Christmas eve dinner (which has added importance because the father wants to win back the favor of his wife and is screwing this up), but later we fret about their physical well-being. The father sternly warns the boy ag ainst such foolhardy behavior.Disaster looms. Yet the boy, who is so tightly wired that he numbers his clothes hangers, is finally adapted to relax, to trust his father, to accept his fate and enjoy the journey. If you havent driven fresh powder, he says at the end, you havent driven. Really helps to roll up this short story nicely. This story captures the two characters as images very well as we are drawn into their lives by the author (character as presented by the author). For example Criminy.This will have to be a unfaltering one. Expressed by the father give the reader, a sense of destiny and you can visualize this character on the slope with the proper expression. thence the line My father in his forty-eighth year, rumpled, affable, bankrupt of honor, flushed with certainty. He was a great driver. As expressed by the POV Character kind of brings it all together. The characters were alive from the beginning of this story and it was due to the really adept characteriz ation that was done by this author.