When Laker Decides The Handshake Analysis

I believe that, after reading the story thoroughly, it mainly revolves around “Forgiveness” and “Moving on”. At the end of the story Laker accepts the handshake offered by his father. This example shows forgiveness because that moment when Laker accepts the handshake was the point he had already forgiven his abusive father for what he has done to their family. Secondly, the part when Laker is by the window in his father’s house and he felt peace washing over him after an emotional conversation with his father about the day he abused Laker’s mother. This example relates to moving on. Moving on, for me, is when you’ve accepted the reality of a past event in your life that has an immense effect on you. At this part, it was shown that Laker has finally felt peace in him and this denotes that he has finally let go of his feelings in the past and has moved on from what has happened.
The past month has been really difficult for me because we have just migrated from the Philippines to Canada. The move really affected me physically and, for the most part, emotionally. The thoughts of leaving everything behind, especially my friends and family back there, really took effect on me. Even now, I have not yet fully accepted the fact that we have already migrated here. It is really difficult for me to adjust because I was so used to life in the Philippines and the move put so much sudden change that I didn’t have time to accept it wholeheartedly. Although I am, at the moment, on the process of moving on which is great because I have to move on whether I like it or not. Upon reading the story I related to Laker because he was also going through the process of moving on from his father’s