Mysterious Skin--An Incomplete Childhood is Fatal

Coralie 2022-08-03 12:26:29

After reading it, I gave it 3 stars, and after reading some comments, my understanding was very different, so I re-read the beginning a few times, and I understood all the words I didn't know. Give it four stars. I love Neil in it. Just start with him. No father, a mother who loves him very much but is busy with work and keeps changing boyfriends. The baseball coach, then, is the perfect dad stand-in. I was tall and powerful, with a huge TV, games that teenagers liked, and snacks that my mother was reluctant to buy for her. For boys, the father is for worship, and the words of the father are, of course, for obedience. So, the teenager obeyed the coach... The coach said that it would feel nice. The teenager believed that it would feel nice.

The childhood experience had a great influence on Neil. When she grows up, she becomes a prostitute. I still think about the coach in my heart, thinking that the coach is the person he really loved, and that the coach also really loved him. I think the love here should be the missing father's love. The day before Christmas Eve, the guest he picked up was a sadist who had been beaten so badly that he squatted in the toilet sobbing, calling out to his mother. I think after this, maybe he decided to get out of his childhood and face reality.

Another victim, Little Spectacles, came from a different background and chose a different way of coping with the experience. Although he also lacked fatherly love, he did not indulge in this abnormal relationship with the coach, but chose to whitewash this matter, thinking that all this was the hands and feet of aliens on him. blah blah didn't want to say more. All in all, how important is the parent-child relationship? Having a baby in the future will definitely give him a complete and beautiful childhood, otherwise the shadow will last a lifetime.

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Mysterious Skin quotes

  • Wendy: I can't believe I'm finally getting out of this fucking nowhere town!

  • Eric: I got a postcard from Wendy.

    Neil: I think she's mad at me because I owe her like 3 letters.

    Eric: Yeah, her last P.S. is "Tell Fuckface to write me."