In the essay My Father by author Doris Lessing, Lessing writes I’ve written about my father before but it did not have to be true and writing this article for her she says would be difficult because it had to be true. She talks of him as being an officer in the 1914-18 war, handsome, dark standing tall young man. Then later at sixteen a photo of him shows a dark introspective youth but …showed first 75 words of 283 total…

…showed last 75 words of 283 total…Later in 1925 acting on an impulse and turning his back on England forever packed up everything he owned and moved his family into a mud thatch house in Banket to farm maize. Well the price dropped and they remained ther until her father was so ill they had to move closer to a hospital where he was bed ridden and remained there two years before he finally pasted away. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Lessing, Doris. "My Father"