Blog 2: Six Segments of Schwartz

Section 1:

The author sums up the relationship between her and her father and gives us some inkling as to why he is the way he is.

Section 2:

The reader takes us to the time where her father took her and the rest of the family to where he grew up. The narrator is not impressed by her father’s motherland and compares his living to that of a hick somewhat.

Section 3:

As the tour of her fathers’ birthplace continues, Schwartz starts to become insightful in regards to this foreign world she has been exposed to. She asks her father questions and becomes curious.

Section 4:

They come across her father’s school and she compares t to that of her own in America. She continues to ask more question and continues to compare it to her schooling system in America. Her parents inform her of how they met and she becomes even more intuitive. Exactly the opposite of the girl we are introduced to in the beginning.

Section 5:

They visit a cemetery and any suspicion of melancholy being held within the heart of the father is made apparent. The family pays their respects to the dead and Schwartz seems to mature as a person and gain more of an understanding about her family and her roots. Her father on the other begins to reminisce about the past it seems and becomes disheartened.

Section 6:

Schwartz makes it clear that the trip she took to her father’s hometown was certainly not the last. That first trip she took as a child was enough to change her mindset about the town her father constantly boasted about. However, her father has leapt on the other side of the fence and is now an extreme admirer of the American culture.