This Boy's Life Quotes Flashcards
transformation
rosemary and tobys relationship
hope and optimism
“I was caught up in my mother’s freedom, her delight in her freedom, her dream of transformation”
lies
family
influence
“His family had always been Jews, but I had to wait ten years before learning this”
masculinity
identity
“I believed that having his name would charge me with some of the strength and competence inherent of my idea of him.”
transformation
identity
“I had my own dreams of transformation…”
identity
masculinity
“All the images of myself as i wished to be were images of myself armed”
family
conformity
“I imagined being adopted by different people I saw on the street”
umbrella - patriarchy
masculinity the ideal man identity power and control relationships
umbrella - identity
abuse and neglect relationships power and control deception escapism optimism, resilience and hope patriarchy
umbrella - depiction
deception identity adversity itself relationships sympathy
umbrella - relationships
power and control the American Dream identity deception desensitisation
umbrella - abuse and neglect
identity power and control escapism relationships convention
umbrella - optimism
relationships
convention
inevitability
deception
family
masculinity
abuse
roy
“He would hold no grudges as long as my mother walked the line”
family
conventional
flaws
toby
“I was tempted by the idea of belonging to a conventional family, and living in a house, and having a big brother and a couple of sisters - especially is one of those sisters was Norma”
family
“out failure was ordained…a real family as troubled as ours would never dream of spending time together”
family
rosemary and tobys relationship
toby
“I was my mother’s son. I could not be anybody else’s”
family
abuse
toby
daughter
“I hear his voice in my own when I speak to my children in anger”
family masculinity abuse toby pearl
“I thought she was pathetic and so did she”
change
“we were going to change our luck”
sister james
“she was a woman of passion”
“no one thought of disobeying her”
guns
masculinity
toby
“I needed that rifle, for itself and for the way i completed me when i help it.”
guns
toby
“…I fired. The squirrel dropped straight into the road.”
toby and rosemarys relationship
toby
comfort
reliability
“I was practiced at this and happy doing it, not because she was unhappy but because she needed me, and to be needed made me capable. Soothing her, soothed me.”
affects of abuse
masculinity
Daddy
“But Daddy left some marks on her.”
