A Compass and Torch

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A (Fokusområde: brug mere end tre citater, pas på med at bruge bindestreg og husk ejefald) A Compass and Torch Divorce is a terrible thing for a child. It affects the child in a negative way, and often the reason for the divorce has nothing to do with the child, who gets in a big dilemma. The parents end up discussing whether the child should live with his/her mother or father, and usually they get to an "agreement", where the child lives with the mother and visits the father every once in a while. This will weaken the relationship between the child and the parents. 'A Compass and Torch' is a story written by Elizabeth Baines in 2003, and it shows an excellent example of how divorce can weaken the relationship between a father and his son, and that is exactly what the main theme of the story is: "the relationship between father and son". Elizabeth's current home is in Manchester, England, and she is the author of several books. 'A Compass and Torch' has a third person omniscient narrator and is briefly is about a boy whose parents are divorced. He lives with his mother, who has found a new man, and he doesn't see his father very often. In the story the boy and his father get to see each other for the first time in four months, and the father has planned a trip for the two of them. On this trip they figure out how fast a relationship can be weakened. A father is often one of the biggest role models for a boy, and almost every boy will look up to how his father behaves and acts. Therefore a boy has a lot of expectations when he is together with his father because the father has to show how everything is supposed to be done, and he is one of the coolest persons in a boy's childhood. The boy in 'A Compass and Torch' loves his father, and because he hasn't seen him in four months he has big expectations for the trip the two of them are going to experience

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