A Family's Unconditional Love In Comeback By Claire Fontaine

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Claire Fontaine the author of Comeback a mother and daughter’s journey through hell and back provides an example of how a mother's unconditional love towards her daughter can build up a strong relationship and can prevail over any difficult situation that life brings them. Claire Fontaine shares an important piece of her life of a time she encountered a difficult life challenge. Claire and Mia Fontaine have a mother and daughter relationship in which they become closer together precisely when they were beginning to drift apart. Throughout the book they became stronger and were successful in overcoming their problems, showing that love is strong, very powerful and it's something great that one can obtain to help them overcome anything that …show more content…
The type of story she tells is something horrible that no one should ever have to experience as a mother or as a child. Like Mia had to deal with the sexual abusement from her own father, that later led to her drug addiction and her running away from home several times. These events that took place in her life are bad memories that couldn't possibly have been told in a good way because they almost ruined their lives but they overcame them. The details of what happened to Mia throughout the process of her recovery make the reader feel bad about their situation. This leads the author to most effectively appeal to emotions. Claire Fontaine tells periods of her journey to compare how her current life is so different to the one she had before as her daughter was growing up. As said by Claire Fontaine, "My home reflects the state of mind I'm not anymore. I want the feeling of our home to be one of happiness" this quote shows how Claire feels that not only have they changed, but everything around them as well, their own home has changed. Their home isn't the same anymore and she only wanted it to be full of happiness again. Their problems were big enough that at a point they felt as if it had even changed their

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