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“Daddy Garbage” Critical Analysis Outline
Working THESIS:
Define genealogy and contrast with biological and spiritual fatherhood and show how it relates to the story.
Intro:
Genealogy as defined in Webster’s dictionary is the direct descent from one’s ancestors, basically where each individual human being comes from. In “Daddy Garbage” by John Edgar Wideman a baby is left alone to die and abandoned by his biological parents. There is a difference between a dad or biological father and a father figure or spiritual father and they cannot be view as one in the same. In some cases one’s spiritual father or father figure will not even be a part of one’s genealogy. Love, effort, dedication and relationship between father and son or daughter determine whether or not you’re a spiritual father or biological father.
1) At the beginning of the story as Geraldine Mr. Strayhorn feels reluctant to mention his experience with Daddy Garbage and the dogs name because he is ashamed.
“ You remember Mr. Strayhorn. Don’t you, John?’ ‘ Uh huh. I think I remember Daddy Garbage too’….’Wish you could remember how he got that name.’ ‘Wish I could tell you, too. But it’s a long time ago. Some thing I members plain as day. But u mize well be talking to light post asking me about others.”(30)
2) The baby biological father is nonexistent therefore he could never become a spiritual father so much the baby is looked at as in humane when first mentioned in the story. “ At first Strayhorn thought it was a doll. A little doll knocked from the box. A worn out baby doll like he’d find sometimes in peoples garbage too broken to play with anymore.”(33)
3) Mr. Strayhorn takes on the honorable act of not abandoning the baby like the biological father at the moment he sees the child he realizes he cannot leave the baby out to dry and becomes the babies acting spiritual father or father figure. “ The child was dead and the man couldn’t touch it and couldn’t leave it alone.”
4) John
Working THESIS:
Define genealogy and contrast with biological and spiritual fatherhood and show how it relates to the story.
Intro:
Genealogy as defined in Webster’s dictionary is the direct descent from one’s ancestors, basically where each individual human being comes from. In “Daddy Garbage” by John Edgar Wideman a baby is left alone to die and abandoned by his biological parents. There is a difference between a dad or biological father and a father figure or spiritual father and they cannot be view as one in the same. In some cases one’s spiritual father or father figure will not even be a part of one’s genealogy. Love, effort, dedication and relationship between father and son or daughter determine whether or not you’re a spiritual father or biological father.
1) At the beginning of the story as Geraldine Mr. Strayhorn feels reluctant to mention his experience with Daddy Garbage and the dogs name because he is ashamed.
“ You remember Mr. Strayhorn. Don’t you, John?’ ‘ Uh huh. I think I remember Daddy Garbage too’….’Wish you could remember how he got that name.’ ‘Wish I could tell you, too. But it’s a long time ago. Some thing I members plain as day. But u mize well be talking to light post asking me about others.”(30)
2) The baby biological father is nonexistent therefore he could never become a spiritual father so much the baby is looked at as in humane when first mentioned in the story. “ At first Strayhorn thought it was a doll. A little doll knocked from the box. A worn out baby doll like he’d find sometimes in peoples garbage too broken to play with anymore.”(33)
3) Mr. Strayhorn takes on the honorable act of not abandoning the baby like the biological father at the moment he sees the child he realizes he cannot leave the baby out to dry and becomes the babies acting spiritual father or father figure. “ The child was dead and the man couldn’t touch it and couldn’t leave it alone.”
4) John