Essay on: ”Ice Break” by Astrid Blodgett
Most kids love to spend time with their fathers. Spending time with dad, means going to a restaurant, going out fishing or walking in the woods. For most kids with siblings, it means getting dad’s attention all to themselves for once – no siblings to steal it now, because it’s just them and daddy. But there are those few kids, where spending time with dad, means no other adult to make him seem like a normal dad. To those few, unlucky kids, spending time alone with dad means new bruises on their body and shouting and angry faces – those kids that never wants to be alone with dad. In most of those cases, kids even beg their moms to do something – to never leave them alone with dad, because he is always so mad… but it never seem to make any difference, and ever too often, spending time with dad, ends up in a battered and bruised kid, that’s scarred for life, both mentally and physically. Those kids are going to grow up, never knowing what it’s like to have a loving and caring father, because all they’ve experienced in their life, is one that uses violence to get his way when he gets angry, or one that shouts at them over absolutely nothing. Of course, violence from parents aren’t always coming from the father’s side – we’ve heard of mom’s being just as bad, if not worse, on the news, but violence coming from a father is what’s relevant to us. Because an angry father is what changed the tragedy in “Ice Break” by Astrid Blodgett from everyone surviving to two people dead.
Astrid Blodgett starts off her short story “Ice Break” in medias res, which means we’re diving right into a crucial situation of the story without any sort of background. The first passage is a flashforward, where we’re being told about their car breaking through the ice. While one may think that a child would feel panic, in the moment the car they’re in breaks