Identify the phrases and lines that indicate distance between father and son.

Question

Identify the phrases and lines that indicate the distance between father and son.

Answer 1

Phrases/lines that indicate distance between the father and the son are:

1. ‘I do not understand this child’

2. ‘I know / Nothing of him’

3. ‘We speak like strangers’

4. ‘there’* no sign/ Of understanding in the air’

5. ‘Silence surrounds us.’

6. He speaks: I cannot understand

7. We each put out an empty hand.