I am really interesting in the way Porter connects family relationships, mainly those between parent and child, with silence. I’m not quite sure which direction I was to take this, but I have noticed that the undefined character is always involved with a story concerning a dysfunctional family. “He” and “Holiday” both contain children who do not have a voice. And both of these children live with a family that doesn’t understand them.
Even though the plots of these two stories center around silent characters, their voices are heard through their actions of listening and doing. Although they are silent, they communicate a lot and we as readers tend to know the silent characters more than the others people in the story.
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