In his essay, Some Memories of my Father, Dean Bakopoulos analyzes his memories of his father and what he misses most about him. Bakopoulos recalls memories of his father starting at age three. His final memory of his father is at age sixteen. Throughout those thirteen years, Bakopoulos’ family is on an emotional rollercoaster because of his father’s actions and personality. Each stage in Bakopoulos’ childhood has a specific memory about his father that he recalls. At age three, Bakopoulos remembers “[his father] smoking and sweating, swearing at some sort of machine, while [he sat] on a concrete floor, banging an old coffee can with a screwdriver.” This is Bakopoulos’ earliest memory of his father. At age four, the author remembers his father killing a hornet by stabbing it with a pocketknife while they are stacking firewood by the house. Bakopoulos’ memory of his father at age five is not a very positive memory. Bakopoulos and his …show more content…
When he asks his mother what is wrong with his father, she simply tells him, “he is sick.” One night, Bakopoulos’ mother and father have a heated argument in the basement. The next morning, his father joins them at the table for breakfast and then returns to work. Bakopoulos’ father disappears for a weekend when he is seven. His father is found on the interstate highway and when he was asked where he was going he said, “Maybe Florida?” Bakopoulos is raised in a Catholic family and age eight he remembers his father breaking the Good Friday meat fast and proclaiming, “he doesn’t want any goddamn fish.” When Bakopoulos is nine, his father decided that the family will be moving to Tucson, Arizona. The next morning, his father no longer speaks of Arizona and the family stays right where they are. At age ten, Bakopoulos’ father admits he kissed another woman at an office party. A week later, he comes home with a peace offering of pizza and