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Product of Culture – Colesmiths Bk 1: Prologue (Page 8)

Copyright 2010 By James Lynch Jr.

to head off to school. Once out of school, Mark

would quickly travel home to work another

hour on the small farm. Afterwards, the family

would eat dinner together and following dinner,

Mark would complete his studies from school.

Often, after the homework was done, Grandpa

would tell them a story. Many times they were

moral stories. Good and bad, ugly and beauti-

ful, light and dark stories. Mark would some-

times ask, “Grandpa, why are you telling us a-

bout these things?”

Grandpa would reply, “Boy, you may not ap-

preciate everything I am telling you now, but

you will as you get older. My Grandpa told me

these things I am now telling you. When you get

older and have children of your own, you will

share these same stories with them.”

“But Grandpa,” Mark in his younger days

would exclaim, “why do I have to fight? Why

does Momma have to leave us for so long? Who

was my daddy?”

Grandpa would reply often, “It is the way of

the world, and you have to be tough or it will

crack you up. Now go to bed.”

Copyright 2010 By James Lynch Jr.

Commentary

This page feels like the book is teaching by routine. School, farm work, dinner, homework, and stories all stack together to form a kind of daily discipline that shapes Mark’s life. Grandpa’s moral tales are not just bedtime entertainment — they are inheritance. He is passing down a way of seeing the world that includes both the beautiful and the hard, the light and the dark, because a child will eventually need language for all of it.

What gives this page its strength is the honesty in Mark’s questions. He is not merely curious; he is carrying confusion about violence, absence, and identity. Grandpa does not answer with softness alone. He answers with survival: be tough, or the world will crack you. That line reveals the pressure surrounding this family, but it also shows love in its plainest form — a grandfather trying to prepare a boy for pain before pain arrives in full.

Commentary Notes and Pictures By Kartistry of James Poeartistry Productions

Grandpa and Mark by candlelight

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