Every Good Boy by David Nicholls

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Every Good Boy By David Nicholls A lot of parents pressure their children — some to a degree that is motivating for the child - a degree where the child feels that the parents are interested in them, others do not at all and make their children feel as if the parents think poorly or badly of them or that they do not even care - although this seems bad the last category surely is the worst one.
 The parents who pressure their children too much. Parents that make their children believe that they are disappointments to their parents and failures in life by having standards too high and h!aving expatiations that go beyond what is realistic. In the short-story by David Nicholls “Every Good Boy”, 2011 you can read a perfect example of this parent-pressure, told by a 9-year-old first person narrator who experiences it and tells it in a flashback. The main theme is being good at something which the narrator is not at the time that the story takes place and as a result of that he experiences parent pressure, which is also one of the b!igger themes in the text. The narrator wants approval from his parents and because of that he wishes to find his talent - he compares himself to his siblings who are talented and we especially get an impression that he wants to impress his father since he mentions how he used to say “But there must be something you can do”1. Besides the approval he wants from his parents he also seems to have hope as a motivation - we see this when he describes how he likes to picture his future-self “as some sort of virtuoso, flamboyant and romantic, fingers a blur, delighting and entertaining...”2. In the beginning of the story the narrator seems proud and confident about himself, for example ““I’m entirely self- taught,” I piped proudly”3 and he seems to believe that he finally found something that he can be good at.! But when he describes himself now
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