As a way with coping with the absence of his biological parents, Thompson reminisces about the childhood dreams he once had about his relationship with his parents and how it could have been different. His hopeless attitude on family is further perpetuated as he expresses in his book that he does not believe in the concept of families because his definition of family is just a mixture of “people who hug, feed, and leave you” at the end of the day. Foster children often struggle with the idea of permanence because they have not had people who have cultivated a relationship that provides them with a sense of stability and trust. Thompson accurately conveys this idea of permanence in his book because he has not yet moved forward from his negative
