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Summary Of The Boys Life By Tobias Wolff

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In the book “The Boys Life”: A Memoir by Tobias Wolff takes place from 1955-1965 in Chinook. The book begins with Toby and his mother traveling to Utah to mine uranium. Toby changes his name to Jack to remove his father from his life since his father left them when Jack was born. Jacks mother got remarried after that marriage and got married to a man named Roy. Jack and his mother leaves her abusive husband as they travel up to Utah. As they travel to Washington state. On the road Jack and his mother become really close. Jacks mother starts seeing another man and she thinks that they are going to be different since she always attracts the abusive men. As they started seeing each other she fell in love and he convinced her to move to Chinook …show more content…

Jack and Dwight bicker about the dominance in the house and Jack starts to see how Dwight: the man that his mother is seeing is stating his dominance by being abusive towards everyone. After awhile Jack starts seeing that Dwight is being abusive and wants to leave and move out. Jack starts applying to private colleges so that he can move away and be away from the abusive household. As Jack starts sticking up to Dwight he gets accepted into the Hill school. After Dwight hits Jack over a mistake, Jacks mom decides that’s the last straw and wants to move away. Jack gets accepted into the college that he wanted to goes to and moves in with his cousin. After Jacks mother leave s Dwight, he finds Rosemary and strangles her. He is soon arrested after …show more content…

She realized that the only good relationship that she would ever have is with her son. It’s sad that men can be possessive and abusive, but then again women can do the same thing. Overall the book was pretty good. The only knowledge that I got out of the book was about abusive relationships. I wasn’t really sure if that’s all I was supposed to learn from the book. I didn’t really see the book having a lot of meaning to it. I just thought it bounced around to abusive relationships to another. In the end the message I got out of it was that a mother can never replace her son with a man. In life I think that no one can break a son and a mothers bond. During Jacks senior year at the Hill school he gets really bad grades and gets expelled. Soon after he joins the Vietnam

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