BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN 4

This week's reading really opened my eyes to what the lives of runaways are like.  The author has developed characters, and their backgrounds, and has given us a good idea of the struggle Lorraine and Lincoln Ewing are going through as parents of a runaway.  This weeks reading had an awful lot about Lincoln's background, and his feelings about his son's disappearance.  His perspective is an interesting and drastic contrast to Lorraine's; Lorraine being almost phsycotic about her son's disappearance, while Lincoln takes us through his history of being a parent.  Lincoln relives the bad times, and how depressed he was about his family and the bad things of being a dad: "Yet for all the secret time he spend trying to learn how to play the boy's video games, for all the pride Lincoln took in his son's quick wit, there were evenings when Lincoln's migraines were pounding and his stomach was upset, and about the last thing he needed was to step inside his house and hear that little bastard's sass... You bet your ass there were evenings...and he was feeling on top of the world, and sure as hell he did not want to go home and have that feeling demolished.  During this past spring and summer, admittedly, more than a few sunsents had been under way when Lincoln had taken a detour on his way home, heading past Vixxen's, Little Darlings, the Can Can Room, and the Crazy Horse Too" (194-195).  I'm pretty sure all parents have times when they don't want to be around their kids, but Lincoln's experience should teach to not take kids for granted.  Family is extremely important, and Lincoln's experience in losing his child makes a person think again.