Beautiful Boy Part 2!

                So over my winter break, I didn’t finish the Mortal Instruments series because I was a lot busier than I thought I was, but I did finish Beautiful Boy. Since I finished it, I can honestly say that I loved that book so much because it gave me insight to other families and how they run things in the family. I also thought it was really well written because, the way David Sheff wrote it made it feel like you were standing in the room when all of this was happening, like I said in my other post about this novel.

                In the novel, you learned straight off that the family was one of those “perfect families”. You know those families, like the ones where the parents are happily in love and the children never talk back forever give their parents all the respect in the world. That’s how I like to think my family is because it most of the time is. Sometimes we have our days when we don’t even want to be in the same room as one another, but we quickly get over that because at the end of the day, we all will have each other and we love each other until the end. Steering off topic, let’s bring it back. Okay, anyway, soon the family the Sheff’s thought they were was soon broken because David and his wife realized that they didn’t feel the same about each other so they got a divorce. This is the point in the story where I think all “bad stuff” started to happen because Nic, David’s son, had to constantly go back and forth between parents, which he started at such a young age and that makes me think that it put a lot of pressure on him to choose between his parents and keep both of them happy.

                As time progressed in the Sheff family, Nic and David became more distant from each other and that also could have been one of the major causes to Nic’s bad choices. David also never really explained to Nic how dangerous drugs were and why it was bad to become addicted to them. I think that would cause Nic to be more curious to see what would happen if he tried them. I know my parents used to stress how dangerous drugs, like meth and pot, were and how much better and more successful your life could be without them. It makes me wonder what would have happened if David would have stressed it a little more, if it would have make Nic stopping using.

                When I look at the novel and the story as a whole, I realize that David might be very disappointed in what happened with his family and he wants to try and get his story out there so other parents and families could try and base their decisions off the Sheff’s and try and make good decisions for their families. What do you think?