The novel starts with childhood of Gardner from around the age of four, the reader can actually notice the fears, weaknesses, insecurity and hopelessness in the author’s childhood for many reasons, for example, the disappearing of his father when he most needed him, and his alcoholic stepfather and how used to beat his mother so hard that he couldn’t do anything about it, also, in his
The novel starts with childhood of Gardner from around the age of four, the reader can actually notice the fears, weaknesses, insecurity and hopelessness in the author’s childhood for many reasons, for example, the disappearing of his father when he most needed him, and his alcoholic stepfather and how used to beat his mother so hard that he couldn’t do anything about it, also, in his