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A 3 page paper which Harley’s relationship, and understanding, of his mother and father in Tawni O’Dell’s book “Back Roads.” No additional sources cited.
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responsibility of caring for his three siblings. He is now an adult and has to raise these children and make a living in order to do so. He is also
a very angry and confused young man who comes from a less than desireable family where his father was abusive and his mother apparently the murderer of his father. His
mother is now in prison which is why he is the head of the house. The following paper examines the relationship between Harley, his father and his mother.
Harley and His Mother and Father AS seen in the introduction Harley is a young man thrown into the role of a father and provider. Any understanding or relationship he
had with his parents prior to this seem to dissolve into one sort of fantasy or another because of his new burdens which he cannot control or handle. He imagines,
in the beginning, how his father was likely a good man. He was a man who made a living for the family and did his best and as such should
be remembered with respect. This is, of course, obviously merely his childhood innocence wishing life could be different. If he can remember his father as a man who took care
of things then he can feel justified in being angry at his mother for leaving him as the father and provider of the children. Because Harley can rationalize any thoughts
of his fathers abusive nature he can justify the good points he remembers about his father. And, as a man who must now take care of a family he also
sees his fathers abuse as almost ideal. We can see this when Harley says, early on in the novel, that the "difference between Dad and me was he always went
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