"And your daddy isn't going to live with us anymore."(pg.9) That is what Ben's mother told him at the age of eight years old when his father walked out on his mother for good. He becomes emotionally scarred from this event because he looked at his father as a well rounded fatherly figure; however for the rest of his childhood he does not have a father to guide him down the right path. In this chapter I feel for this little boy because he cries for weeks thinking that he was the reason why his father left his family. Ben's mother, Sonya, had to take care of the two of her sons as a single mother without any type of support from the boys' father. Which is very hard for a mother to have to fend for her children without any type of help. I have sympathy for Ben's family because I know how hard it could be for a mother to raise kids by herself.
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