The document discusses Barack Obama's relationship with his father, who was absent from his childhood. It explores how Obama sought to understand his identity through the stories and memories he had of his father, but also questions how much was truth versus exaggeration. The document ponders whether Obama will let his father's absence define him or forge his own path forward.

1. Ruben G. Boria Derieux
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2. A Father
A figure of a distant memory from a past
as a Figure that cannot return or be changed?
oObama never had a true
father son relationship
oIn a search for his identity
through the memories of
his father
oHas an image portrayed
of his father, but this is
only through the stories he
has been told
oGood vs. Bad
oTruth vs. .
Exaggeration
oWillhe let his thoughts
determine who he
becomes or will he forge
his own future?

9. “Who was I,
who shed no
tears
at the
loss of his own?”