Why Should He Chose To Go To College?

Due to the title’s name, most people would think that narrator’s about to list reasons of why he chose to go to college. The seven lines state that if he didn’t go to college, his father said he would break his son’s jaw. The audience is not expecting that the narrator’s only reason to go to college is because he doesn’t want his father to break his jaw. Most people usually have several reasons to go to college, whilst the narrator has only one which is a very different reason from others. The speaker’s father most likely means what he has said. Parents want their child to grow up and become successful in life, instead of earning minimum wages and bumming off of them. They encourage their children to be who they want to be and to strive for