Father's Alcoholism

This is an autobiography comprised on how a dad’s alcoholism affects not only the author but his family. The circumstances in which you are raised have a large impact on the type of adult that you will be. Thus, how you are raised also affects how you will raise your own children and how they will grow up.

What caught my attention about the writing of the autobiography was the how relatable and clear the details within the document were. For example, the first line of the story is “my father drank,” nothing more had to be said because you knew the dad was a drunk and he did not like that his father was this way. The main reason why his dads drinking bothers him is because he tells himself that his dad “drinks to ease the ache that grows at …show more content…
My grandfather is much like this family due to being able to accept the reality of the dads drinking. A child’s biggest hope with an alcoholic parent is that they “would really and …show more content…
Someone must care for this individual since they cannot place care in themselves. In the end, [he] failed of perfection; he succeeded in dying.” This shows that it is much easier to do what is wrong than what is right and that is the reason why evil has a way of taking control. To conclude, near the end of the autobiography, the author states that he “vowed never to put in [his] mouth or veins any chemical that would banish [his] everyday self.” The very fear of being like his father makes it so the author never wants to drink. I have this very same fear, I do not want