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The Decline Of The West Short Story

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Having a family means taking on an immense deal of responsibility, such as making sure that they are all is safe, fed and warm. Typically, the parents, who hopefully have a degree to obtain a job and thereby are able to provide the family with everything that they need or wish, handle these responsibilities. However, having a job and earning money is something that takes up a lot time, meaning that the parents are not always able to provide their children with the one thing that is of the highest of importance. Love and affection towards the children. There are children who understand the position that their parents are in and why their absence is substantial, however, children will always feel a need to be loved by their parents. The consequence if the parents are not involved in their children’s life is that the children grow up independently and will even find it troublesome when the absent parents endeavour to be a part of their life. It might even come to the point of being annoying for the children, since they only consider their parents as objects that are supposed to fulfil their material needs and nothing else. The short story “The Decline of the West” written in 2010 by Hanif Kureishi, is an example of such outcome, when the father loses his job and tries to have a conversation with his sons, but they do not wish his presence and find him tiring when he tries to be a father.

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