How To Write An Essay On This Boy's Life

Have you ever been in a toxic environment? I’m not talking about the nuclear toxic either, but rather the one where you’re forced to be around people that are no good for you. Tobias Wolff, author of This Boy’s Life, was stuck in one as a young boy. His mother was known to pick out bad boyfriends and settled with one named Dwight, who is probably the worst one mentioned. He seems to have a strange aura around him and it shows through the way he treats Tobias. There are many more people in this story that have these characteristics that all seem a bit foreign to me. Overall, this novel forced me to experience a different set of personalities than what I was used to. Near the start of this novel, Tobias Wolff shares a memory about the time in his life where he is in a confession with the Father and blatantly lies about the things he's done. The Sister tells him about all of the bad things she had done in her lifetime and Tobias, referred to as Jack at this point in the novel, is surely taking notes about her life as a “backbiter” and a thief. Later, when Jack is back in …show more content…
Chuck is your average country boy who dreams of having a beautiful wife and little kids to run around the farm, but he has his faults as life is not as perfect as we want it to be. Every morning Tobias has to tell him what happened the night before and Chuck always replies similarly as to how he does on page 237 saying, “He shook his head at the behavior of this strange other person.” Chuck knows he is not like this normally and I believe he wants to change but just doesn’t know how to. I’ve never really been around anyone who is head over heels drunk and I am thankful for that because it has to mess with your emotions on a scale higher than I can imagine to see someone you love turn into something else that you know isn’t really