Characteristics of a Child of an Alcoholic
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck struggles when he is pulled into multiple directions by what society accepts, by what is best for others, and what he believes about African-Americans. The racist society in which Huck lives causes him to think about African-Americans in a negative light but a friendship forms with Jim, a slave, and convinces him to think otherwise. Jim teaches Huck about life and aids him through the rough times he has with his father. Since Huck grew up with an alcoholic father, he developed multiple characteristics and qualities that demonstrate that he is a child of an alcoholic regularly having guilt and self-blame, developing a negative affective state …show more content…
“ Active alcoholism in a parent can lead to a family disruption and result in a transient increases in anxiety and depression” ( Sher 251). This relates to anyone who has an alcoholic parent and results in having those negative states. Those negative state are expressed in multiple different ways and is sometimes difficult to identify in a person. Huck has an alcoholic father and experienced what it is like to be around someone who is addicted to drinking. Huck sometimes feels depressed and alone throughout the book and have points where he feels worry and uncertain about what his future holds. “ Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him these days. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more” (Twain 8). After Huck heard Ben Rodgers say that about his dad, he did not know what to think or what to say back. Ben clearly pointed out to Huck that he has no family and that his dad is an alcoholic and is careless about his own son. This makes Huck very upset and makes him feel like he does not belong anywhere and just feel isolated from society and his friends which causes him to develope that negative state of depression. Negative affective states are more accepted in children of alcoholics and not so much in children of nonalcoholics because of the society and how the person grew up. Yet, this is not the most common quality in children with an alcoholic
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, Huck struggles when he is pulled into multiple directions by what society accepts, by what is best for others, and what he believes about African-Americans. The racist society in which Huck lives causes him to think about African-Americans in a negative light but a friendship forms with Jim, a slave, and convinces him to think otherwise. Jim teaches Huck about life and aids him through the rough times he has with his father. Since Huck grew up with an alcoholic father, he developed multiple characteristics and qualities that demonstrate that he is a child of an alcoholic regularly having guilt and self-blame, developing a negative affective state …show more content…
“ Active alcoholism in a parent can lead to a family disruption and result in a transient increases in anxiety and depression” ( Sher 251). This relates to anyone who has an alcoholic parent and results in having those negative states. Those negative state are expressed in multiple different ways and is sometimes difficult to identify in a person. Huck has an alcoholic father and experienced what it is like to be around someone who is addicted to drinking. Huck sometimes feels depressed and alone throughout the book and have points where he feels worry and uncertain about what his future holds. “ Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him these days. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more” (Twain 8). After Huck heard Ben Rodgers say that about his dad, he did not know what to think or what to say back. Ben clearly pointed out to Huck that he has no family and that his dad is an alcoholic and is careless about his own son. This makes Huck very upset and makes him feel like he does not belong anywhere and just feel isolated from society and his friends which causes him to develope that negative state of depression. Negative affective states are more accepted in children of alcoholics and not so much in children of nonalcoholics because of the society and how the person grew up. Yet, this is not the most common quality in children with an alcoholic