Tosh and Father

I noticed that at the beginning of the Muryama's novel the relationship between Tosh and his father especially is different towards the end. Countless times Tosh would butt heads with his mother and father, but in the beginning his father would "slap and punch" his head all over and he seemed to take it. Then towards the middle on p. 44 it seemed that Tosh finally had it and hit his father back. It says he "threw a left hook to father's solar plexus". After that it was as if he grew and saw himself as the man of the house. There was one instance on p.77 when his father brought up how remarkable Minoru Tanka was for working fifteen years for his parents. Immediately Tosh got infuriated and went on a rant on how Tanaka is basically nothing. It was surprising to me that his father basically took it! No punishment or slap on the head, instead it says "Father didn't bring up the subject in front of Tosh again". Lastly what really made it clear to me that Tosh saw himself as the head man was when the air attack had been made on Oahu and it was Tosh that told his father what to do. He was ordering him around and telling him to hid the Japanese flag, don't speak  Japanese around any non Japanese, hide all the books in the chicken coops. Again his father followed everything he commanded. Tosh's father seemed like a hard ass in the beginning to me and it was surprising to see a huge role reversal towards the end. Now Tosh is ordering around and throwing the hits.

Kayla