This Boys Life UPBRINGING Flashcards
6 key points
Dominance Rosemary Influence Punishment Submission Father
Dominance
Jack learnt from his father figures that to be a man was to be dominant.
Rosemary
Rosemary is the only person jack truly trusts and cares for that appears throughout the majority of the memoir.
Influence
Jack had a number of bad influences on his life that would have contributed to the way jack thinks.
Submission
Rosemary is submissive to dominant men because of the abuse she endured as a child.
Punishment
Rosemary never punishes jack because of the abuse she suffered at the hands of her father.
Father
Rosemary’s desire for jack to have a father is one of the main factors contributing to her willingness to marry Dwight.
8 quotes
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Parent
He had the advantage always enjoyed by the inconstant parent, of not being there to be found imperfect.
Identity
I was my mother’s son. I could be anybody else.
Church
She never went to church. She thought it was good for me but beside the point for herself.
Normalisation
Roy’s strangeness and the strangeness of our life with him had over the years become ordinary to me.
Impact
When I hint of chinook i have to search for the facts of my friends. But I always see Dwight’s face and hear his voice.
Compassion
I sat beside her and put my arms around her. She was gasping as if someone had held her underwater. I rocked her and murmured to her.
Punishment
But Daddy left some marks on her. One of them was a strange docility, almost paralysis, with men of the tyrant breed. She’d never been able to spank me.
