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’s 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.