My First Son Rhetorical Analysis

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My First Son I remember it just like it was yesterday. We were riding back to my house, and my girlfriend Thi told me she was pregnant. At that point in time, so many questions ran through my head; I didn’t know what to think or do. I didn’t know how I was supposed to support a kid or even know how to take care of one. In “Groupie Love” Will Demps a star football player for the New York Giants is reminded how weak his flesh is when it comes to groupies. Groupies are pretty girls who wait in lines with thier breast spilling hoping for a chance to strike a conversation with Demps not for his personality or charm but for Demps has his share of fun with these type of beautiful girls who he flies across the world for his games. He wines and…show more content…
Demps realizes this is wrong and gets upset that he has given up to temptation “in my heart I know God wants better for me.”(150)After hearing the news about a baby, I thought about an abortion but just like Will Demps, in my heart God would have wanted better for me. So I looked at her and said, “What do you want to do”? She told me that she wanted to keep the baby and that no matter what, she was not getting an abortion. I recall the words of El Saslow in his essay “A New Gameplan.” In, this he wrote about a boy by the name of Drew Hixon, A football player for Tennessee Tech who was injured during game play. After being sent to the hospital for having a brain injury, Drew’s family was heart broken but “confident that faith could lead them through crisis.”(249)Not sure on how I was going to take care of a kid while going to school and playing football all at the same time was a huge crisis. I knew that my girlfriend Thi needed me and so would my child. All I…show more content…
I was sad and depressed. It was one of the worst feelings leaving my girl and son behind, but deep down I knew it was right. I had to do what I had to do, and I couldn’t let anything get in the way of my goals for me or my family. I knew that everything would work out impeccably in the end, because everything happens for a reason. Will Demps also writes in his essay titled “Groupie Love” that he removes himself from temptation by surrounding himself with like minded players. Will doesn’t compete in locker room competion with other guys. “I see myself growing and changing.” I can relate to Will Demps, because I also feel mature and feel that the decisions I make today will reflect on what happens tomorrow. You never know where life is going to take you; all you can do is hope, wish, and pray for the best. I feel that if I believe in something so much and pray for it every day and also work at it every day, it will come true no matter how slim my chance is. Most people decide to give up when they think the little possible chance is impossible. Well, not me; if there is a will, there is a way and the reason I left my son and made the choice to play football for Wayne State is to get an education and also make it to the pro‘s. In the movie Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner is a marginally employed salesman and a single father, struggling with the mother of his five year old son Jayden Smith.
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