Bobbys Growth
It is commonly known that a child's behavior is modeled by their surroundings. This is shown most strongly in three incidents. The first being that his mother, hiding from Bobby his high intelligence quotient, causes him to think he is in trouble. Secondly, by his mother living so close to the ideal Catholic family, tries to keep him away from trials and troubles of everyday life. Most importantly, Agnes and Teddy have an atypical relationship in a sense of having a loving secure correlation of love. Therefore, taking away from the normality of his childhood. The purpose of this essay is to show that Bobby O'Malley's childhood is tainted with a distorted opinion of normal behavior. Bobby O'Malley is a excessively academic student who is punished for not being the most worshipful in school. Bobby has a hard time in school emotionally because his intellectual wealth is so much stronger than that of his immediate student body. His mother wants him to be a priest, and the sisters at his school are giving him harsh reports of "virtue"(71) when they should be praising him on his ability to learn . This is hard as he endured an intelligence quotient test and had extraordinarily high marks. When he gets home after
Bobby's parents being as religious as they are, do not come close to a perfect Christian family. This further taints Bobby's opinion of a normal childhood. Agnus tries very hard to swindle herself into believing what she wants to. Teddy is a harebrained kind of man who should by no means be playing Joseph in the family, he constantly complains about never being loved. This is shown in the quote (quote), and commits a religious offence of adultery. Teddy after being arrogant over the fact that they had only made love "the night they made Bobby" get's involved with one of Bobby's friends mother, who is referred to as Harold's mother. Teddy gets involved with her and spends most of his time with her. He even thinks about moving to the main land with her and leaving his wife and child behind. This is illustrated when (quote) This shows that the relationship between Agnus and Teddy are emotionally insecure. This affects Bobby severely as he has not been taught the things he needs to understand why this arrangement is happening. Bobby is left in the dark with no hope of having a secure relationship as he will not be educated and will have what his mother has told him in the back of his mind. his unbelievably long parent teacher interview, he over hears his mother talking
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Approximate Word count = 860
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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