Question

How is the speaker’s description of his father teaching him to drive important to the poem?

Answer 1

In Route 1 North, Philadelphia to Highland Park by Hayes Davis, the a speaker learns how to drive with his dad

Explanation:

• The poem explores the theme of family, importance of parents instilling confidence in children.  In the poem the speaker’s dad seems to have died in the past 10 years. Moreover, we also learn of a son’s need for praise from his father. Every son alive can feel this in the poem. The speaker's description of his father teaching him to drives refers to the confidence that the speaker's father instilled in the speaker when his father was teaching him to drive
• In this poem, the speaker looks back on a memory from his adolescence and  the speaker describes how his father helped develop his confidence. The speaker today as an adult says when anybody asks how did he imagine his father, the speaker says he remembers his father never held praise too tightly, that his father knew confidence as a secured or precious thing, which instilling in children was as vital as anything that a father gives his son.
• Children who feel confident about themselves believe in doing new things. They will do the job more certainly. They are proud of what they can achieve. Self-confidence allows children to cope with mistake.

Answer 2

Answer:C) The speaker highlights how his father was “all praise”, despite the mistake the speaker made while learning.

Explanation:

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