Comparing Brad Manning’s Arm Wrestling With My Father and Itabari Njeri

Comparing Brad Mannings short story ramp up Wrestling With My Father, and Itabari Njeris When Morpheus Held Him The relationship between a father and son stems from an unspoken competition in many countries. Whether it is a physical or psychogenic rivalry the superior role slowly transcends on to the son as he grows into a man. In Brad Mannings short story offshoot Wrestling With My Father, and Itabari Njeris When Morpheus Held Him, both contain admiring sons and impassive fathers. Despite both stories similarities in unspoken emotions they differ in the aspect of their physical relationships. This unrequited stay put between a father and son in these stories portray various types of love. Throughout Brad Mannings anecdote about arm wrestling he refers to his father as the arm or the master with clenched fists. The embodiment of his father in these empowered limbs shows the dominating figure once held over him. Daddy, was the whole personal name Itabari Njeris father allowed him to say. If Njeri did not settle for Daddy, Dr. Moreland would have to due. There is a sterile and clinical connotation in referring ones father as Doctor. Mannings states, the man would win, also giving an impersonal and cold feeling to his strong father. But this impersonal name was not obligate upon Manning as Njeris father had done. Mannings father-son matches battling arm against arm was their only means of communication. Manning decodes his fathers crude ritual,...