Post by Shannon Zeltmann on Feb 26, 2015 21:51:46 GMT
I think it is weird how Chick is seeing, and is able to interact, with his mother. The first time he saw his mother, I thought he was just hallucinating, but now he is seeing her again, and is being made breakfast by her, hugging her, etc. I think this is too bizarre. I don't think this really happened. Either this is an episode of ABC's Resurrection, or Albom made this all up. Also, how would this entire how be filled with the stuff of his childhood???
Another thing about his mom is the chapters titled "Times I didn't stand up for my mother." I like these small chapters that Mitch somehow always fits in. I do not think, though, that the times Chick does these things are not that bad. He was a young kid in all of these chapters. When his Halloween costume got all wet, he had no one else to blame, but his mother, and it is a childish thing, acting as if it is the end of the world. Or the time his father was mad about the pasta being wrong and Chick just said what his father said. He didn't know what to say, he was in between an argument that he had no control over, and his dad would have been very angry if he had not said that it wasn't good. I do not think that he can blame himself when he was just a child, in his own small world.
Another thing about his mom is the chapters titled "Times I didn't stand up for my mother." I like these small chapters that Mitch somehow always fits in. I do not think, though, that the times Chick does these things are not that bad. He was a young kid in all of these chapters. When his Halloween costume got all wet, he had no one else to blame, but his mother, and it is a childish thing, acting as if it is the end of the world. Or the time his father was mad about the pasta being wrong and Chick just said what his father said. He didn't know what to say, he was in between an argument that he had no control over, and his dad would have been very angry if he had not said that it wasn't good. I do not think that he can blame himself when he was just a child, in his own small world.