Letter to Daniel: Despatches from the Heart

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The letter isn’t really aimed at his son.The letter isn’t really aimed at his son.2.2. The letter form is a device to get the attention of the The letter form is a device to get the attention of the Throughout the letter Keane uses repetition. He says, " We had wanted you, and waited for you, imagined you and dreamed about you". Repetition of the word "you" reinforces the personal aspect of the letter and it also highlights Keanes feelings of joy and pride towards his son. No longer recognises the person No longer recognises the person he was. Realises the need to put he was. Realises the need to put his son before everything else. his son before everything else. Will this impact on how he does Will this impact on how he does his job?his job? In the meantime, believers must be patient and faithful in a hostile world, looking to the Lord alone for deliverance ( 11:33–35).

But his son was too far away to hear his last words, his final breath, and all the things they might have wished to say to one another were left unspoken. Yet now Daniel, I must tell you that when you let out your first powerful cry in the delivery room of the Adventist Hospital and I became a father, I thought of your grandfather and, foolish though it may seem, hoped that in some way he could hear, across the infinity between the living and the dead, your proud statement of arrival. For if he could hear, he would recognise the distinct voice of family, the sound of hope and new beginnings that you and all your innocence and freshness have brought to the world. The repetition of the word “a” makes me realise that the writer is being very vague in the story and is distancing himself from emotion. The fact that he tells the story anonymously seemed to have a much bigger impact on me when I realised it was about his own mother and about his own father being an alcoholic. However he shows no anger towards his father as he knows it was not his fault; Setting is important in this third of the letter as it describes Keane's birth and also his childhood. He describes his mother being alone in a "big city". This conveys an idea of loneliness and isolation and is as though Keane is distancing himself from the situation being described, establishing that this is a story that many can identify with, it is a universal experience.

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More than anything though it was the presence of my son, the boy in the Letter: his zest for life and his need for my presence gave me the strength I needed. youyou think is Fergal Keane’sthink is Fergal Keane’s main purposemain purpose for writing this for writing this letter. letter. And, as I've said, I found my father. In those shivering early morning hours before I quit, in hotels across the world, I think I was touched by some of the pain he knew as alcohol was claiming more of his life and spirit, that steady, incremental departure of hope.

God humbles the proud and raises up the humble. Even the hearts of the greatest kings are under his control (chs. 4; 5). The producer of the programme thought he knew better. He called again. "Give it a try at least," he said. Becoming a parent is a universal experience. "Just write it from the point of view of a foreign correspondent."

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