How does the quote below relate to events or feelings in real life? "Hold still,my father would say, while I held the ship in the bottle and he...

Susie often helped her father with his hobby of building
ships in a bottle. When she dies, he destroys them. In this quote, Susie is remembering
how they worked together on the shipbuilding. The quote illustrates Susie's connection
with her father. This activity was something they did together, and while they did it,
he taught her things. I believe that the cutting of the strings could be symbolic of the
father cutting the strings of life and letting his daughter go off on her own, but
because Susie dies, the cutting of the strings in this particular bottle also symbolize
the break in the father-daughter relationship that occurs because Susie is killed. When
Susie refers to the "tension of that moment" this could be referring to the fact that
parents raise up their children, but then it is up to them to make their own choices in
life. The tension is the realization that Susie would one day have to make these
choices, and it is scary to a child. This quote also foreshadows what is to come,
because Susie's father lives on edge after her death, and there is a constant tension in
his soul to figure out what happened to his daughter. He feels responsible. He feels
guilty because he failed to protect her, and this was his job, he believes, as her Dad.
The fact that Susie's death has affected her Dad in a most profound way, in retrospect,
goes back to the tension of this moment.

There is a lot in
this little quote, huh? You can apply the points above to life in general. Parents raise
children to go off and live on their own someday. When a child dies before a parent,
something is wrong, the order of things is upset, creating a tension that never goes
away. Susie's dad, like all dads, wanted her to grow her own wings and sail away on the
blue ocean of life, so he carefully worked with her, teaching her life's lessons, just
like all fathers. Children must realize at some point, however, that ultimately it is up
to them but hopefully their fathers have raised them so that they have the skills to
make good decisions in life.

That's my view. What do you
think?