What does john updike's story “son” reveal about american families?

The narrator in John Updike's story "Son" isfinding a way to balance his love for his son with the young man's emergence into adulthood. The protagonist's growing awareness of his own mortality is the central conflict in Robert Olen Butler's story "The Trip Back."

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frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.