My storyOnce upon a time there was a very old man, who had a hammer nose. The old man had spent his last fifty-plus years drinking heavily alongside his drunken friends. He hadn't drank anything in the last five years. Not even a drop of liquor. But why not? Five years ago the old man's daughter was carrying her first child. The old man's first grandson. His daughter had not seen him for a long time, after her mother died several years ago due to kidney disease. When the old man's daughter returned to town she went to see her father before doing anything else. Well, except to visit the church that was down the road on the way here. It took three knocks for his father to get to the door. And as soon as the old man opened the door, his daughter's eyes flew past him to the kaleidoscope of different shapes and colors behind him. From the funnel-shaped snapshot he took from where he stood, he could tell that the old man's house was crawling with empty liquor bottles. She initially had second thoughts about entering her father's house, the same place where she had grown up before leaving for France at the age of fifteen. But she had prayed that he would give up his life of drinking right at the church down the street before she arrived. His daughter's name was Teresa. She couldn't go back when her mother died. For years, when she was younger, her father's drinking habits had terrified the family. Her little brother was hit by a runaway horse at the market when she was five years old. After that incident, Teresa had no one to run away to when her father beat her mother during episodes of drunken stupor. After that traumatic event her mother suffered with a man... middle of paper... of those. But along the winding road there is an opportunity to draw closer to God and be saved, leaving you to live a happy and fruitful life. The realism in this painting is incredible. The exaggerated contrast between light and dark really highlights this old man's features. The graying hair, the wrinkles around the eyes and the deformed nose. I think the difference between him and the child is very relevant to the overall message of a long life of decisions versus a new life just starting. Works Cited Ghirlandaio, Domenico. Portrait of a Grandfather with Grandson (An Old Man and His Grandson) ca. 1480Louvre, Paris. Network. 3 December 2013.Depagniat, Martine and Dominique Thiébaut. “Work as an old man with a boy.” Old man with a boy. The Louvre, nd Web. 04 December. 2013. .