Hurricane song

I the book Hurricane Song by Paul Volponi, a seventeen year old boy named Miles goes to live with his father in New Orleans as as unexpected Hurricane Kartina comes to visit as well. Miles and his father was never actually close in the beginning, but as the story goes on Miles comes to see that his father is more than just a band rat, and that he actually cares about Miles more than anything in the world, and so does his father.

The relationship Miles has with his father is so much like the teen relationships in the real world today. Many teens across the world don't get the attention and support they need from their parents, and that's why many of them feel neglected from the world, like they don't fit in. And that's exactly how Miles feels with his father. At the beginning of the story, whenever Miles tried to get on a more intamate level with his father he would always push him away and resort to music to get away from all the pain he thought Miles was trying to cause around the house, when in real he was just trying to talk to him father to son.

Miles had always had a love for football, and Pops music. So when it came time for Mile's birthday, of course teh thing Pops had in mind for Miles was a drum. Pops had always thought that some day his son Miles would get the love for music like his father, but for that same reason Miles hated him. In Mile's eyes Pops was all along trying to change who he really was into someone he didn't want to be, and when he got the drum for his birthday, it made the situation even worse. Miles wanted nothing to do with his own father.

As time passes on in the story, Miles realizes that Pops wasn't trying to change who he was, he was just trying to bring him out of his comfort zone and to try something new. When it came to life or death moments Miles was the first one Pops grabbed for saftey, not his instruments, nor his long loved trust wothy brother. This was the moment Miles really felt important to his father, like he really meant more to him compared to any other thing in the world. He was able to talk to his dad without any discomfort and agitation, like a real family should.