Beautiful Boy

                Have you ever wondered what it would be like to love someone who has done something terrible that could very easily jeopardize their life drastically? Well as I have learned in the novel I’m in the middle of reading right now, there are many families going through this. This terrible thing I’m talking about is drug addiction. Drug addiction is a scary thing for me to think about because it’s yourself harming your body and I hate the thought of that. I always have and reading this novel Beautiful Boy it makes me realize how hard it would be to have to deal with this. It makes me realize how hard it would be to still trust someone after hearing someone you have trusted for so long has been lying to you, like in the story of Nic in Beautiful Boy.

                Even though I’m not super far in the novel Beautiful Boy, I already really how it’s written because when I read it, I feel like I’m standing in the background watching it happen rather than reading it. I think by writing in that way, readers are able to fully grasp how the characters are feeling. This novel is also written in the point of view of the father, so the readers get a different perspective on how its affecting his son rather than just seeing how Nic (the son) is dealing with it. Parents are always going to have a different reaction to everything compared to their children, so writing it in the perspective of the father and how he has to deal with his son change has a bigger effect. I think it does because parents are always watch their child and they know everything about them and the second they notice something different, they question what happened. Also, I’m pretty sure that when people become parents, they gain some kind of special super power that allows them to know everything so before children get in trouble parents are able to think about what is going to happen in the end so they how to deal with it.

                So far in the story, the relationship between Nic and his father is the kind where the parents trust the children and don’t meddle in their personal lives. I think that gave Nic an open opportunity to go out and try new things because he wasn’t getting a lot of pressure put on him to stay away from it. It makes me wonder what would have happened if his parents would have been harder on him when they first found out, instead of how they actually reacted, being all calm and telling him to stay away from it because it was bad. I know that if I would ever try drugs (which by the way, I’m never going to) my parents would ground me for life and never let me out of the house. I feel like they would also be very disappointed in me, which for me, would be the hardest part to handle.

                I cant wait to read more of this and figure out what was going through Nics head when he decided he wanted to keep doing drugs. I’ll probably write another blog post on this book when I read more! So until then, later lovely people!:)