Here is the assignment
blood is thicker than water
squeaky, jerry, and the speaker in "my father is a simple man" all recognize something significant about the value of family and the importance of relationships.

on the attached worksheet, explain how each of these characters defines a family relationship (squeaky, jerry, the speaker). compare what each character comes to understand, and how their ideas are similar. refer back to the lesson, as needed, to review the ideas and themes in this lesson.

your response should be three paragraphs long (1 paragraph for each of the characters)
and should include detailed evidence from the text to support your answer.

answer: sure

explanation: i'd love to know everything but that burden is too much to bare.

the narrator is a first person, participant one, who describes in the simple past tense important and difficult events in his earlier life. he also provides temporal markers as the month (january) and the time (12: 30 pm). finally the account of his experience is very detailed, to the extent that a participant narrator would talk the same way about his experiences. a good example of such detail is the mention of the “bovril ration” which historically was a native american food adopted by european explorers in arctic and antarctic regions due to its high level of calories.

gerund phrase: writing a short story.

noun use: subject.