Oswald's Childhood and its Future Effects
Oswald's childhood was a troubled one. Growing up with his single mother, and changing schools from time to time was hard, let alone the fact that he was a loner. For this, he was made fun of, and led him to pursue different schools of thought in order to set himself apart. This post will be exploring this childhood of Lee's, and how it influenced his thoughts and behaviors later in life. We are first introduced to Lee in the first chapter, In the Bronx. He lives alone with his mother in their apartment in the Bronx. Their lifestyle is not a lavish one, shown by their lack of heating and broken down television, but Marguerite (Lee's Mother) still does her best to spoil him. At school, he is made fun of constantly and has difficulty keeping up with the material, so instead he skips it, rather preferring to ride the subway and observe the people there. While he is not stupid, he lacks a fatherlike figure in his life ever since his father and brother left. This la...