Love! Love can appear in various contexts and relations. Among these is the love between a father and his son of great importance. Even though few boys, young or old, are able to describe the denotation of this word fully, many of them know what it is and have experienced it. But what happens when this love between the father and the son is broken? Or worse if it has never existed?
In the short story “A Fortune” written by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi in 2000, this problem is being illuminated. However, the interesting thing to notice is who this crisis can hit.
It was Sunday when I saw the kid (…). One should only read the first line of the short story to realize that it is a first-person narrative. Consequently the point of view goes through the main character’s eyes, and the reader is therefore close to the narrator, involved in every thought and action. This makes it easier for the reader to identify with him. But on the other side the narrator is subjective, which makes him rather unreliable. The using of short sentences, swearing and avoiding difficult words, (…) but it’s a helluva lot let us presuppose that our main character is unintelligent. This lack of intelligence and thereby the limited information we as readers obtain from him, makes the narrator even more unreliable. The language is written in colloquial language which perceptibly reflects the narrators’ character – a stereotype of a criminal. His affection of stealing wallets, which he clearly admits and is proud of, I started pickpocketing when I was only five, is due to his harsh childhood with no role models and because he was raised in an environment with poverty. His self-esteem does not improve, when he consider his crooked teeth, oily hair, and bony knees as the only things he has inherited from his mother – even though he is well aware of that she has tried to give him more than that.
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