Addiction

“I had promised the family to always let him have the last word when arguing, but in this case I had a different responsibility” (Paley 68). When it comes to addiction, the results can become catastrophic and may cause tension between friends, family, and there would be no telling about the outcomes. It can learn to take its hold on people; falling into obsession and would be extremely difficult for them to heal from it. People can easily develop strange behavior; allowing them to think of how they view life or even their own life; full of hopelessness and nothingness. The more obsessive people are, the more they realize that they need help and support from their loved ones and they can choose to accept it or become lost forever. Addiction …show more content…
Unfortunately, she fails in both versions and left him both sad and discouraging towards her for not giving him the kind of story he long obsessed for. The problem in this story is that each has their own ideas of reality and they aren’t ready to change. The father, for example, believes that a character has a bit of individuality and that their life stories should have reasonable endings without any changes to their lives no matter how tragic. “That woman lives across the street. She's my knowledge and my invention. I'm sorry for her. I'm not going to leave her there in that house crying...” (Paley 68). For her young mind, she believes that every person of a story should have the open destiny, which is why she ended hers with the mother alone in an abandoned state by her son. Her father disagreed and in response towards him she replied “No Pa, it could really happen that way, it’s a funny world nowadays” (Paley 68). When it comes to writing, she can’t simply write a story for him because has sensibilities of her own young age and isn’t ready to accept the change from light to darkness in