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What is the main idea conveyed in this excerpt from Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch?

My parents were separated by 1968. My father had met someone else and moved out, and I lived with my mother and my sister in a small detached house in the Home Counties. This state of affairs was unremarkable enough in itself (although I cannot recall anyone else in my class with an absent parent - the sixties took another seven or eight years to travel the twenty-odd miles down the M4 from London), but the break-up had wounded all four of us in various ways, as break-ups are wont to do.

There were, inevitably, a number of difficulties that arose from this new phase of family life, although the most crucial in this context was probably the most banal: the commonplace but nevertheless intractable one-parent Saturday-afternoon-at the zoo problem. Often Dad was only able to visit us midweek; no one really wanted to stay in and watch TV, for obvious reasons, but on the other hand there wasn't really anywhere else a man could take two children under twelve. Usually the three of us drove to a neighbouring town, or up to one of the airport hotels, where we sat in a cold and early-evening deserted restaurant, and where Gill and I ate steak or chicken, one or the other, in more or less complete silence (children are not great dinner conversationalists, as a rule, and in any case we were used to eating with the 60 TV on), while Dad watched. He must have been desperate to find something else to do with us, but the options in a commuter-belt town between 6.30 and 9.00 on a Monday night were limited.

1. Children are expected to eat in complete silence.
2. Fathers are not good at making conversation with children.
3. Marriage difficulties adversely affect parent-child communication.
4. Children always blame the father when their parents separate.

Respuesta :

Marriage difficulties adversely affect parent-child communication.

Answer:

3.

Explanation:

"Fever Pitch" is an autobiographical book written by Nick Hornby, first published in 1992. We can, in his autobiography, find about his love for football.

Hornby's parents got divorced. His father got separated and married another girl. But his father would make an effort to spend time with Hornby. His father would take him to Arsenal football Club, to watch football game with him. At that time, Hornby had no interest in football. But went with his father who making an effort to rectify the error of separation.

In the given excerpt, Hornby reveals that this separation of his parents left the family of four wounded. He tells that his father would pay them visit, but none of them were very much interested in this. Because the separation of his father has left wounds in their hearts.

So, the idea that Hornby wants to convey in this excerpt is that such separations or marriage difficulties adversely affect children and their relationship with parents. The correct answer in 3.