Read the excerpt from "Homesickness" 'What will you tell the school?' I asked him, trembling. 'I'll say you had a very severe in
fection of the stomach which I am curing with pills,' he answered smiling. 'It will mean that you must stay home for three more days. But promise me you won't try anything like this again. Your mother has enough on her hands without having to rush over to fetch you out of school.' What does the author express about the doctor through the details in this excerpt? The doctor thinks the narrator is actually sick. The doctor misses his own family as well. The doctor is angry at the narrator for faking his illness. The doctor understands how the narrator is feeling.
The doctor is angry at the narrator for faking his illness.
Explanation:
From the excerpt of "Homesickness", there is a dialogue between two people; a doctor and a patient, who is revealed to be his son and narrator. From the dialogue, the narrator is faking an illness and is anxious about what the doctor will tell his school as an excuse and the doctor replies that he would cover up for him.
The doctor is angry with the narrator for faking his illness to avoid school but agrees to cover for him by telling his school he has a severe case of a stomach infection.
One thing that teen boys face is that they are held up to standards that they wont be able to reach quite yet. They may think that its wrong to do something that an average man does. Their held up to be strong, and emotionally strong as well.
Another thing is that they are pressured to be "men." when some aren't ready. Some aren't ready to face the real world yet, when others say that they should 'man up' and face it.
