A Fortune
All children in the world have tried this. A feeling that you have let your father or mother down. For most children this is not something that will give psychological problems, like a parent complex, and it will be forgot after a short amount of time and life will continue. But in the text "A Fortune", written by Joy Monica T. Sakaguchi, this is not the case. Our narrator is struggling with a father complex and this is something that gives him difficulty in his adult life.
This text is written in first person. The style is quite neutral but still has informal trait. An example of informal words is "helluva" (p.7, l.31). The text uses a lot of colloquial language and uses dialogs. The novella does also jump in time. An example of this is the first page. The very first sentence begins with: "It was a Sunday" and further down at line 34 it says: "Like I said, it was a Sunday".
Our narrator is a person who started pickpocketing when he was five years old and has done it throughout his entire life. (p. 7, l. 4) It was his Pop (dad) who taught him to steal but the narrator's mom wanted him to live a life where he was honest. Despite the mother's effort, the narrator does not fancy his mother that much: "She's this ugly lady (...) I inherited her looks. Crooked teeth, oily hair, and bony knees are my curses." (p. 7, l. 16-18) The narrator has inherited some of his mother's genes and that is not a good thing, since the narrator thinks his mom is ugly.
The narrator comes from a family which is filled with "black sheep". The mother is worried all the time and lives in a trailer, (p. 8, l. 41) the uncle, who is named Barney, only had one job (p. 8, l. 21) and the dad is a criminal. Our narrator has a father complex. Until the very day his father left town without leaving any form of letter or note he felt like his dad was not proud of him. When he was