“Northern Ireland” is a short story written by Bill Oatley in 1978. The text deals with a Father who wants to talk with his son because he is worried about him and wants the best for him. The son is coming home late and do not tell the father where he was. The dad is trying to talk to him about it but the son doesn’t want that. After a long struggle with his son about their problems, the son talks to a person, who the dad think is his friend in the hallway, but the father hears a bang and he gets worried. The father runs out to the hallway to see what happened. The son was shot in the head. It ends up with the son dies and the father can finally put his arm around him.
The father and the son’s relationship are not strong. The relationship is very complicated, but we don’t know exactly why it is so complicated. To show their relationship when the son was young, Bill Oatley using “flashback”. When the son was younger they went fishing together. The father showed how to tie a blood-knot, how to cast a fly and how to strike the fish so it not will escape. He taught a lot of stuff to his son. They took the green bus together. The father loved to do things together with his son. He wants to do things again with his son and feel close to him, and that is why he wants to talk with him and feel as he is a part of his life. We can see the episode when the son was young here:” when he was a boy I took him fishing. I taught him how to tie a blood-knot, how to cast a fly, how to strike so the fish would not escape. How to play a fish. The green bus to quiet day in Toome
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