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Brief Analysis Of Chili Cheese Dogs, My Father And Me By Pat Conroy

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The memoir Chili Cheese Dogs, My Father and Me by Pat Conroy fits the genre because in the story Pat presents memories, focuses on an object and person that has a particular significance to his life, and shows feelings about the person and the object. Most importantly it is reflective since at the end Pat gained a new insight about how his father really felt about him. One memory presented was of his mother taking him and his siblings after church to The Varsity, a chili cheese dog restaurant in Atlanta and how his father said once you taste the one from Superdawg in Chicago you will forget the one from The Varsity since it was so good. This didn’t change Pat’s view of The Varsity having the best chili cheese dog but, he still knew it was his

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