In “The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig, Nixie and her father, Slate do not get along very well, and Slate does not want Nixie to be sailing with him at all. Her father wants to go back in time and prevent her from ever being born. In the story, it states “It was at our final destination, however, where we hoped to unmake the mistakes of his past. Mistakes like me, perhaps.” When Nixie was talking about this it looked and felt like she was nervous and scared and while reading it I felt very sad for her and her situation. In Freaks and Geeks there is a similar situation of not getting along with a parent with Kim Kelly and her mother. Kim never wants anybody hanging out at her house, one of the reasons being is that all her mother does
