Huang Leyi (Cindy)

Dr. Marquardt

ENG 1430 W10

March 26 2015

Word Count 277

                                              response to faking it     

This article began with a plot that the man doesn’t know how to use the electric drill but he pretend know it. It seems ridiculous but this insignificant plot shows men’s nature which every boy will learn from their father. Because the father or the husband is always the backbone of the whole family, so they are always confident and seem to have ability to solve any problem. It is not means they are omnipotent, and it is their love and responsibility for the family that make them stand in front of their family. When they were in the storm, nobody knows how to get out of storm but because of the responsibility for the family, he tried to pretend to know how to drive. In fact, even the wife realized that they were lost, and the equanimity of her husband just like faking, but it is the equanimity that made her calm down.

There is a part that the man promised that he never hid the uncertainness and pretend to acknowledge the knowledge he didn’t know when he became a father, but finally his method to deal with problem is more close to his father. It is a growth for the man. It is a common phenomenon that teenagers always think parents cannot understand them and parents’ methods are always wrong, but only when we grow up we can understand them deeply. When the man becomes or learns to become a father or husband, he will really know that men’s responsibility leads them not to stop to ask question, and men’s love leads them to hide their weakness, although it looks like faking in some situation.