In this memoir, Nobody's son: Notes from an American Life, Luis Alberto Urrea describes his childhood and how people and things had a big influence on his life. One of the things Luis mentioned a lot in his memoir that seemed to have a big impact on him was nature. Nature had a deep and important part of Luis’s life that influenced him a lot. Nature influenced him by letting him see the beauty of life, it let him escape from hardships he faced, and it made him closer to God which gave him comfort. Nature influenced Luis by letting him see the beauty and worthiness of life. Luis was first introduced to nature and its beauty in his godparent’s house when he was three. They had a garden that they took a very good care of, and to Luis it was a kind of miracle (141). Luis didn’t know much about garden until his godfather, Abelino, and his godmother, Chayo, showed him a lot of amazing plants and creatures in their garden. He saw there that nature gave us a lot of things; it made him see beauty, as Luis Wrote, “(Mama Chayo, when she took you by the hand and led you out the back door, took you into a world of fluttering green. You were suddenly in the …show more content…
Luis witnessed a lot of arguing and fighting between his parents and a lot of neglect from them (117). I think for any kid who’s seeing a lot amount of fighting between his or her parents will try to find a way to run away from it and find a place or a thing to forget about it. For Luis the place to escape from all of that was nature, as Urrea stated,” I was a Boy Scout. The Scouts were the only escape from the eternal race war between my gringo mother and my mejicano father “(117). That shows how nature was an important part to Luis to run away from the neglect and hard times he had to face daily and to not see and think about his parents and their arguments. Even when his mother died he went into nature to run away and comfort his pain and sadness