A Father: An Analysis Of Tom's Life Without A Father

Toms father is absent most of his life. Tom has to adjust to the life without a father which can be quite hard. Tom was forced to take the role as a father. He grew up without being able to have a dad to talk too about how manhood worked or someone to talk too about boy problems. Tom didn’t have a man in his life to love him. He was raised to keep all of his problems bottled up and didn’t know how to share love or to love someone without being mean. Tom grew up without a man to help him through the tough times in his life. His mom was unstable so he pretty much grew up by himself and had to deal with problems on his own instead of asking for help or advice. Tom had things planned out and how he wanted to live his life but his mom had …show more content…
A struggle that the went through without a dad was only making ends meet. They were struggling to make money without a father to support them. When his father left it could help him by showing that you cant trust anybody no matter what they say to you. Also, it could help him be more motivated to be a better father for his kid. He could use it as motivation to be successful and provide for his family. The struggle would be learning to do father figure things without your dad showing you how to do them or teaching you things you should do for your family. Life without a father can alter a person 's life. It can cause people to go into a deep depression or to have a mental breakdown and think that their life is over. But in some cases, the father leaving helps the family become stronger. It can test the true will of the family to try to work together and make ends meet without a father. A very bad thing that can happen to a kid without a father is he can look for something to cure depression by abusing alcohol or develop a drug problem. Which can damage the person and the …show more content…
She took over her kid 's life and put all the pressure on them. She forced them to act double their age and take up for themselves. It affected Laura but not as much a sit affected Amanda and Tom. Tom got affected by it a lot. He was told he cant leave the house to move away to live his dream out. He was told he had to stay and take care of the family and help his sister find a husband cause she is too shy to do it by herself. When he told his mom about him trying to write poetry she told him how stupid and a waste of time that was. Which you should always support your kids not tell them that something they want to do when they get older is dumb. But she wanted Tom to live the life she imagined for him. She wanted everything her way. Living a life without a father can be very hard. Not being able to have someone there for you to show you how to be a man and to stick up for yourself. It 's also hard for you not to have a father figure to look up too. Someone to help you when your down that will always be by your side and never leave you. He can teach you how to raise a family right and always work things