“I can’t believe they’d try and buy me a car…or that they think is actually let them pay for my law school if I was going to go…I’ve told them a million times that I have the best car in the world, a car that has spanned the continent from Miami to Alaska, a car that has in all those thousands of miles not given me a single problem, a car that I will never trade in, a car that I am very strongly attached to—yet they ignore what I say and think id actually accept a new car from them! I’m going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.” (pg 21)
I choose this quote because first of all it shows the Chris has completely different thoughts that his parents. He doesn’t see life as being made up of new material things. He shows that he wants to cut the strings between his parents wanting to control his life. He is an independent adult and wants to be treated as so. It relates to the book because for Chris life is not made up of money and material things. He sees it ridiculous the idea of replacing his car when it’s up and running. In my own personal life because I don’t think that happiness can be bought with material things. You shouldn’t replace a good working item just because they came up with a new color or style which does the same thing as the one you have. I think we have to reconsider that other people might not be able to have what ones have and we are being selfish. I know that I can say that I can say that I have guilty of this because that used to be me with wanting the newest color or style of items.
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