Rosemary has an inability to be a supporting, loving and providing parent to Toby due to her character flaws, and the expectations of her as a woman in society. Rosemary begins with having absolute faith in her son’s word, as she doesn’t think he can lie to her, and this behaviour is what sends Toby into a spiral of lies that he thinks he can get away with, due to the experiences with his mother. Rosemary is expected as a woman in society to be supported by a man, and make it in the world with a man, which she doesn’t have, and her need to have a “family” drives her to focus of that rather than focusing on being a good parent to her son. Rosemary’s dark past with her father has caused Rosemary not to discipline Toby as she should, making Toby …show more content…
think he can get away with anything. Her trauma of her past leads her in to not being good at disciplining her child, making her a less than adequate parent. Rosemary tries to do what she thinks is best for her and Toby, but she is blind to what Toby’s real feelings are, hence she cannot make the best decision for both of them to be happy. Rosemary’s character flaws and expectations in society is the cause of why she is not capable of being a good parent to Toby. Rosemary’s inability to be a good parent stems from her blind faith in her son at the beginning of the novel. Rosemary’s naivety in thinking that her son is a “good boy” and that “he’d grow out” of his bad behaviour is an example of how her character flaws able her to be a bad mother to Toby. She doesn’t see that this bad behaviour is becoming a regular occurrence, and that by going easy on him encourages the bad behaviour. Toby often lies to his mother, and this is shown through the structure of the text, how when Toby lies to her, the dialogue isn’t shown, which shows Toby’s guilt of lying to her, as Rosemary will simply just believe everything he says early on in his life. Rosemary believes that Toby “doesn’t lie” to her, showing her character flaw of her protective instinct over her son. When challenged with being told her son is a bad influence, Rosemary protects toby, which means Toby can get away with more bad behaviour, making Rosemary a bad parent to him. Rosemary’s blindness to Toby’s bad behaviour is so severe that she has to be “made to see the light” of what her son is really like by another person. The fact that she is blind to her son’s real personality, which she either refuses to see or she just doesn’t see makes her a bad parent. How can she be a good mother to Toby if she doesn’t really understand what his behaviour is like? Rosemary’s inability to see past her blind faith in her son leads her to become a bad parent. Rosemary’s belief that she should have a ‘real family’ for Toby to be apart of causes her to not realise that this image of ‘family’ is stopping her from being a good parent to him. Rosemary believes that Toby should have a normal family because she thinks it is a good influcence on him, but she doesn’t see the type of “famliy” that she is leading toby into is a corruptive influence on him. Toby “imagines being adopted by different people on the street” in order to escape his awful homelife with Dwight. The fact that Rosemary has lead Toby into this situation of him having to escape from this ‘family’ shows that her thinking of what a good influence of of family would be on Toby, is wrong, and she doesn’t see that. The fact that Rosemary believes that Toby should “make a real effort ot get along with Dwight and his kids” shows that she is unable to see that it should be the otherway round. Her desperation of wanting to have a family for Toby blinds her from seeing that she is leading herself and her child into a corruptive environment. The fact that Rosemary “still hoped this marriage would work” is a plain example of how she cannot be a good parent to Toby. Her belief in something that is clearly doomed puts Toby in a bad envionment which he cannot escape from, and Rosemary is unable to see this as she is too focused on wanting this family to work. Toby’s inescapable corrupt family life that Rosemary has created for him is one of the main reasons that Rosemary’s parenting is not up to a good standard. Rosemary is unable to put her past of brutality behind her, and this causes her to be a bad parent to Toby.
Rosemary’s past isn’t her fault, but her inability to but her past behind her has a negative influence on Toby. Discipline is needed when you have a son like Toby, But Rosemary, who “doesn’t have faith in discipline” fails have any kind of ground rules set down for Toby, and this is due to her awful past with her father, showing us why she cannot be a disciplining, and good parent to Toby. Her influence of her father meant that Rosemary is attracted to “men of a tyrant breed” like Dwight and Roy. Toby then has to live with these awful men who are a corrupting influence on Toby, and this is all because of the influence of Rosemary’s past. Rosemary’s father used to “badger her into smoking cigarettes” and many other things as a child, and as a result in her adulthood is badgered into many bad decisions, like marrying Dwight. These decisions that she gets persuaded into often land her in trouble, which then lands Toby in trouble, hence highlighting gain her inability to put the influences of her past behind her. Since Rosemary cannot discipline Toby herself, when she finally finds out he needs disciplining, she tells toby to “take a ride with Dwight” and uses Dwight to punish Toby instead, which of course is a very scarring experience for Toby’s childhood. The inability Rosemary has with her brutal past carries on into her present, making her unable to be a good parent to
Toby. Rosemary is ignorant and naïve to how toby truly feels with their life, causing her to act on what she thinks he feels, making her unable to be a good parent to Toby. After the meeting of Dwight’s family, Toby seems to hate the idea of being apart of that family, but Rosemary doesn’t see that Toby feels that way, naively thinking that “they’re all nice” and despite being his mother not seeing how he truly feels. Her expectations to “never find people dull or mean” clouds her judgement of people, especially people who could be bad influences on Toby. Rosemary’s naïve judgement of Dwight, the man she married, caused Toby to be traumatised for years by the brutality of that man, and if she wasn’t so naïve this could have been prevented. Toby being “tempted by a conventional family” is something that Rosemary is also unaware of. Her naivety that leaving her already conventional family consisting of Toby, Geoffrey and Toby’s father was a mistake that she naively made, and then she wouldn’t of got herself tangled in these awful men. If she knew how Toby obviously would of felt about family, she would of stayed with his father, rather than leaving and becoming mixed up with tyrants like Dwight. When Toby finally gets an escape from Dwight’s house, Rosemary tells Toby “its his choice”, rather than to try and push him out of Dwight’s home of brutality and make the right decision for his future, and for what he truly wants. She is naively thinking that giving him this decision for himself gives Toby a sense of responsibility, when this decision is something that she should also be having an influence in, to point him towards what is best for her child. Toby’s true feelings are hidden to Rosemary as she is blinded by her own naivety. Rosemary is unable to be a good parent to toby due to her flaws as a character. She lets her blindness to her son’s behaviour influence him negatively, and her belief that having a family to help him cloud her judgement as a mother. She lets her past come into her present, and see how the brutality of her own past has a negative effect of her decisions. She is also ignorant to how Toby truly feels; causing her to make the wrong decisions when she is thinking about what is best for herself and for Toby. Rosemary’s flaws as a character are the reason why she is unable to be a good parent to Toby.
After reading into the storm there were two characters. There was Tucker and Richard they both had numerous things in frequent. The primary thing they had in frequent was they both liked water.Secondary , they both were guardians and they were also known as heroes. Not only that they were also athletics and they both had their characteristic. Like Tucker was a youth and Richard was a senior the other inequality was tucker was alive and Richard was dead from what it said in the passage.
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