When Molly Brodak expresses, “The facts are easy to say; I say them all the time. This isn’t about them. This is about whatever is cut from the narrative. The fat remnants, broken bones, gristle, intender bits.” She is articulating this essay isn’t going to be about the facts, because everyone knows the facts; everyone knows the story about how her father ended up in jail. However, this story is going to be about the backstory, the details that no one discusses or cares about; the story of her experiences of growing up with an unreliable father. It is common in society for people to only want to know the facts that led up to a big event without caring about the details of how that person arrived in the resulted condition. In relation to Brodak’s meaning and my personal experiences when I decided I wanted to go back to school at the age of twenty-five my family thought I was crazy. They would tell me how hard it was going to be to …show more content…
However, my family only cared about the facts; I was twenty-five-years-old, this was my third try of achieving higher education and I have a lot of responsibilities like a husband, a mortgage, and a medium sum of student loans from my previous achievements. Although my family didn’t seem to care about how I arrived at the conclusion of going back to school; they didn’t care that even though I have two degrees that many would consider great careers, one as a Medical Assistant/Caregiver and one as a Holistic Health Practitioner; I was not happy with my life, they didn’t care that while I had tons of student loans, I was willing to take the risk ultimately accruing more debt to better myself and my position in life. My family consists of mostly blue-collar folks who settled down at the first chance they got; I am the first in my family to seek higher education and for them, my third try seemed irrational and pretentious. I am not saying there is anything wrong with the way they settled into their own lives but they see