In "A Story", Li- Young Lee creates a central tension using the method of foreshadowing to show the father is fearful that his son will be ignorant of him when he grows up. The speaker compares the fathers inability to provide childhood experiences with a negative future relationship between the father and the son. She also uses a metaphor to show the father's deep disappointment: "Are you a god, the man screams, that I sit mute before you? Am I a god, that I should never disappoint?". By applying these techniques, she encourages that the father is scared for his future, where he imagines that he is uselessly begging his son to not leave him. The two techniques help create an emotional understanding of the central tension in the story.
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