In 1957, Tobywith her mother Carolinedrove from Florida to go to Utah. Ever since Caroline was beaten by her boyfriend Roy, she wanted to leave that sad place in Florida every day. Caroline came to Salt Lake City with the dream of finding uranium mines to make a fortune, but because of lack of common sense, she had to move to Seattle. Caroline has a way for her to forget her worries. Even a classic car can be abandoned. As long as she can get to Seattle, Caroline can give up everything, but not Toby. After arriving in Seattle, Caroline and two women rented together in a large house, and then began to look for work and a new boyfriend. During this period, Roy came, brought Toby a toy rifle, and stayed with Caroline all night.
With Caroline's efforts, Toby soon entered a school. But smoking, picking up girls, playing truant, and pretending to be cool also followed, which made his puberty unusually irritable. Caroline soon had a new boyfriend, a car mechanic from the country named Dwightplayed. Dwight had already won Caroline's favor when Toby called him "all broken" in disgust. If it were not for Toby, Caroline might have agreed to Dwight. Dwight stepped up his love offensive and invited Caroline and Toby to his home in the small town of Comfort. In the small home of Dwight's children, Caroline sought Toby's advice and moved from Seattle to become Dwight's bride. Caroline found her home again, but Toby didn't feel warm because of her stepfather. In order to change Toby, Dwight found him a job delivering newspapers, and even signed him up for the "Boy Scout" club. But Toby still played truant and smoked. What's worse than playing truant and smoking is that he still talked to Merry, Jack and his gang did all the bad things. Therefore, Toby was suspended for two weeks, these performances caused Dwight's dissatisfaction, but Toby does not seem to care about Dwight's feelings.
Two months later, Toby gradually discovered that Dwight began to suppress him and hate him. Until Dwight completely vented the pressure of life on Toby, Toby began to resist, but his resistance made his mother dilemma. In order to leave Comfort Ford, Toby passed the art exam and won a lot of scholarships. But Dwight secretly threw his application form into the trash can. At that moment, Toby completely broke up with Dwight, and took his mother to leave Comfort Ford and start a new life. After that, Toby enlisted in the army and experienced the Vietnam War. Many years later, he won many awards for his novels and was honored to be a professor of literature at Syracuse University
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