There are adoption centers all around the world that exist solely so that those who want to engage in the act of parenting can adopt parentless children. The opportunity to be a parent is so highly sought after that entire businesses are built around it; still the details of how to successfully fulfill the responsibilities themselves are unclear. In her Memoir, Virginia Woolf discusses her own childhood and how the parenting choices of her father positively impacted her. Woolf argues that through allowing children to navigate aspects of their own lives, parents prepare children for the psychological challenges of the real adult world by giving them a hint of what is to come. The author supports her argument through her discussion of the
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In the text Woolf first describes the act of fishing, then her father telling her he didn't like fishing, next she described the joy fishing brought her, and finally her decision to not fish at all. The author decision to structure the narrative this way shows the impact of childhood control on the author's thought processes directly. By separating the joy she felt when fishing from her description of the fishing itself, Woolf displays the ability to compartmentalize emotion from reality, and by keeping the two experiences of her joy and her father distaste separated in their descriptions the author is showing her ability to consider both options logically. In displaying her own exemplary reasoning skills through the structure of this section, as a child who was given some control, Woolf adds to her argument that childhood control builds decision making skills which later prepares children to face tyranny of choice in the adult world. Woolf discusses the tyranny of choice later in her piece stating that "often one has to make do with seeds... of what might have been," in her discussion she also calls these lost chances "invaluable." By both acknowledging that she cannot take every path available and calling these lost chances useful, Woolf shows the effect of
In the text Woolf first describes the act of fishing, then her father telling her he didn't like fishing, next she described the joy fishing brought her, and finally her decision to not fish at all. The author decision to structure the narrative this way shows the impact of childhood control on the author's thought processes directly. By separating the joy she felt when fishing from her description of the fishing itself, Woolf displays the ability to compartmentalize emotion from reality, and by keeping the two experiences of her joy and her father distaste separated in their descriptions the author is showing her ability to consider both options logically. In displaying her own exemplary reasoning skills through the structure of this section, as a child who was given some control, Woolf adds to her argument that childhood control builds decision making skills which later prepares children to face tyranny of choice in the adult world. Woolf discusses the tyranny of choice later in her piece stating that "often one has to make do with seeds... of what might have been," in her discussion she also calls these lost chances "invaluable." By both acknowledging that she cannot take every path available and calling these lost chances useful, Woolf shows the effect of