As a parent, raising children is a long process of retaining and unleashing. In which they preserve their children from experiencing the horrible truths the world presents, while liberating them from those falsehoods in order for them to survive the emotional turmoil that follows their life path. But to many parents releasing is the most difficult process, wishing that there were other ways to do such things or simply denying the whole experience, “Parents want grandchildren, but don’t want to admit that sexual intercourse, on the daughter or son’s behalf, was involved in the means of creating them. These grandchildren just appeared, poof, out of nowhere.” Sometimes such processes are required, especially in a child, but what happens when such restraint is practiced for too long? A coming of age story, by Joyce Carol Oates, focuses on the mind-perspective of a fifteen year-old teenager, Connie, who naively perceives the world as her own, personal playground. But playtime is over and Connie is left alone to face Arnold Friend, a stalker who is full of lies but appears to hold the truth, “My sweet little blue-eyed girl… that had nothing to do with her brown eyes but was taken up just the same by the vast sunlit reaches of the land behind him and on all sides of him,” (pg.
705 P 161).
Connie had finally caught up with the world, and it was all too strange for her, even though she had spent all her time with suchundings, “Her eyes darted everywhere in the kitchen. She could not remember what it was, this room,” (pg. 703 P 130).
The Essay on My Understanding of Parents-Children Relationship
During the past twenty years of my life, I was always regarding my parents as extraordinary and authoritative models of my life. I adored them so much as if everything they had done was not only right but also great. As for my parents, they paid much attention to setting a good example for me since I was a little girl. The situation lasts and I have never thought of any possible changes in the ...
