This book reflects on her good and bad memories of her parents, then speaks her mind about the situations. Also the reader see's Julia's father and his problems and her mothers bad decisions and the reader will begin to not only see what went on in Julia's life but the reader is able grow with the character.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Just the Three of Us: 1
Just the Three of Us by Julia Blackburn is a memoir about a herself, her drunken father and her relationship with her mother when her father left. From the very start of the book Julia states that "He (her father) was disastrous in so many ways, yet I never felt threatened by him. I could be frightened of the madness and the drunken rages, but I never doubted the honesty of his relationship with me and that was what really mattered"(3). She doesn't really know what to feel about her father and that he is a kind man and has love in his heart yet he has those "drunken rages" that scare her.
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It sounds like an interesting memoir. I think it would be strange to not feel resentful to your father if he had drunken rages. It was said that the character still sees her father as a caring man who loves her, but I would think if my dad really loved me he wouldn't allow himself to go into drunken rages that could hurt me.
This book sounds very interesting. The fact that it is a true story will make the story much more interesting. I can tell the father has a very interesting relationship with his daughter. At points she can tell that he loves her and she "never has doubted the honesty of his relationship." But when he is on his drunken rages she is frightened of him.
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