Aaron Hartzler's Adolescence: Simply Controlling Your Life?

Imagine being in a family where you aren’t able to be yourself or express your feelings the way that you want to. You put all of your faith into your parents because you believe that they’re trying to keep you out of hell like they say. But are they really keeping you away from hell, or are they just isolating you away from the real world, or is that their way of simply controlling your life?
In Aaron’s adolescence, everything in his life was centered on belief because he placed all of his trust and confidence into his parents and everything they told him. As Aaron Hartzler was growing up he believed that the rapture was coming and everybody that was born again was going to fly up and meet Jesus Christ. “We believe that people all over the world who have been born again by accepting Jesus as their personal savior from sin will float up into the air to meet him.” He believed in this because that is what his parents instilled into his mind. Hartzler believed everything they said, because he never thought of his parents being dishonest to him. Aaron wasn’t allowed to take part in most of the activities that most kids were able to do. He wasn’t allowed to watch TV, go to the movies, and …show more content…
He began to wonder why he really wasn’t allowed to do all the things that most kids his age were allowed to do. Why does he have to lie about the music that he listens to, the CDs that he buys, or the movies that he watches? Aaron was quickly realizing that he wasn’t living for himself but for his parent’s approval. But he still had a funny feeling in his stomach about if god would allow him to be killed in a freak accident if he didn’t stop lying to his parents. These events took a toll on his faith because he couldn’t understand why his parents wouldn’t allow him to be who he wanted be or why they were making a big deal about things that really didn’t