The Role Of Uninvolved Parents In Into The Wild, By Jon Krakauer

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Everyone needs someone to be there for them and motivate them to do well and accomplish great things. The most relied on to play that part is our parents, but having an uninvolved parent may throw you off, because they’re their kids role models and them not being productive in their kids life’s will affect that child in the long run. Kids and or children who have uninvolved parents will eventually lash out irrationally.
All the evidence in the novel Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer proves the point that uninvolved parents will eventually make you lash out irrationally. “By the time I left Corvallis, Oregon, to enroll in a distant college where no ivy grew, I was speaking to my father with a clenched jaw or not at all” (pg. 148) Wayne Westerberg …show more content…

The movie Girl in Progress by Patricia Riggen, is about a teenage girl name Ansiedad and her mom works two jobs and is always out with different men and she never pays attention to her daughter. Ansiedad eventually gets tired of her mom never being there for her, so she decides she’s going to speed up her process of growing up so she can become an adult faster and leave her mom behind. She starts doing all these crazy things like hang out with the wrong crowd, do drugs, go to bad parties, and she thinks she has to have sex to officially be an adult so she plans on doing it. Throughout all this her mom still didn’t notice anything because she was all focused on her own life. She acts out irrationally because her mom is never there. She really just wants to get her mom’s attention, because she hates always being alone. In the book Willow by Julia Hoban, a girl named willow was driving home one rainy night with her drunk parents in the car and she ends up swerving and crashing and both her parents died. She ends up having to move with her big brother and his family, but she feels like a disturbance. She feels like her brother blames her for killing her parents, and she blames herself. Her brother isn’t there for her and she feels so alone, she begins to cut herself. She doesn’t know how to deal with the fact of no longer having her parents in her …show more content…

For example, I personally saw this happen. My cousin Manuel didn’t have the most involved parent, in fact my uncle Ricky was a very harsh parent. He was never there for my cousin in any way, he would become angered by the smallest things and hit him, but yet my Manuel would get straight A’s in all his classes, he had an after school job, and got a full scholarship to the college he wanted to go to. When he finished college he up and left his dad and moved to Jacksonville with some friends and now he’s doing better than ever. He having a parent that wasn’t involved didn’t affect him only encourage him to do better. Another example is Michael Jackson dad was a very harsh parent to who beat his kids but Michael admits that his dad’s harshness is part of the reason for his success. Because his father was hard on Michael and his brothers is why they rehearsed so much and became very famous. Sometimes having an uninvolved or harsh parents will only encourage the kid to try harder to get to where they want to be so that, in most cases, they can escape their

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